Our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family following the sad news of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Many of our members were inspired to enjoy the outdoors through the DofE Award. The picture shows members meeting the Duke in 1979. pic.twitter.com/SSTC30CcPB
At 4.56pm yesterday we were requested by NWAS to assist with a 22yo male who had fallen at Tiger’s Clough. The team treated him with pain relief & placed a vacuum splint around the injured ankle, then stretchered him to the waiting ambulance.We wish him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/ZEbrt4vaLT
1/2 From all of us at BMRT we would just like to thank every one of you that donated to us this weekend. It was a hard decision for us not to do our usual Easter meet and great around Rivington but for the safety of our team members, we decided against it. pic.twitter.com/xkNOo8equX
It's been a busy start to 2021 for the team. Three months in & we are already on our way to more callouts than we had last year. If you can support us in our work, please feel free to donate via boltonmrt.enthuse.com/#!/ #BoltonMRT #Volunteers #Donate #Rescues #BeenBusy pic.twitter.com/KhDxLT92N8
1/ Today is usually a busy and important day for the team. With so many people visiting the Rivington area in particular, we would usually have our displays set up around the area to help educate people about outdoor safety. pic.twitter.com/0iKNZaqWU1
Thank you to everyone who nominated us for these awards and huge congratulations to Ricky Lomax for winning the Emergency Service Award 🥳 #BoltonNewsLockdownHeroes twitter.com/TheBoltonNews/…
Our water team has been very busy over the past few weeks! Congratulations to our new MOD2’s and well done to our MOD4’s for passing their refreshers course 🥳 facebook.com/58756182794365… #BoltonMRT #WaterSafety #Training pic.twitter.com/3MaO6XkOnF
If you see a fire in the countryside, report it immediately 🔥 Leave the area as soon as possible and dial 999 📱 If you witness illegal activity report it to Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 pic.twitter.com/I7eRXLwQx4
❓ Did you know that moorland and wildfires can be started in a number of ways? Sadly, many are started deliberately, however, some can break out by people being careless with barbecues, campfires or not disposing of cigarettes properly 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WDHdEHFcXA
We appreciate this encouraging message of support from our colleagues at NWAS twitter.com/NWAmbulance/st…
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Apr 7 2007
Incident 82/2007
At 19:36, NWAS (GMA) paged the team for assistance with a climbing accident at Cadshaw main quarry, situated at the head of Turton & Entwistle Reservoir.
Our first team member arrived at the A666 roadside RVP to guide in an NWAS (LA) crew who arrived at the same time.
By circa 19:55, our member and the ambulance crew were at the scene of the accident, where a 27 year old man in a small group, had apparently fallen 50 feet (15 metres) vertical, from the steep rock face of Cadshaw main quarry onto the ground.
He was treated for major injuries and loaded on scene onto a longboard and then onto a mountain rescue stretcher.
Throughout the rescue the injured man was given painkilling gas.
A ¾ mile stretcher carry in rapidly fading light conditions then took place to the ambulance handover point on the A666 near to its junction with Greens Arms Road.

The stretcher party.
Two responding police cars from Lancashire Constabulary then closed this busy main road at night time, to allow us to safely transfer the seriously injured man into the ambulance, which then took the casualty to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Handover to waiting NWAS (LL) Crew.
and into the back of the Ambulance for transportation to hospital.
In total, 11 Bolton MRT team members in two landrovers responded, alongside our colleagues from Lancashire Constabulary, and ambulances from NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) and NWAS (Lancashire Area).
This was a very serious incident, which was resolved smoothly and quickly through excellent joint multi-agency working.
By admin • 2007, Incident • Tags: ClimberScramblerStructure