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 28 2008
Incident 54/2008
At 23:24, very late this evening the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) Paramedic Emergency control regarding assistance with an off road bike accident in the Pennington Flash Country Park area.
The pager call was answered by our Team Leader whilst other members commenced a response to our bases to collect vehicles and to the general incident location.
It was very quickly established that there was sadly a fatality, with another casualty involved suffered various injuries.
Our response on behalf of the ambulance service was stood down, changing to a body recovery operation for Greater Manchester Police.
It appears that in the late hours of the evening a 23 year old male and a 27 year old male were riding an off-road motorbike on the tracks of the Pennington Flash Country Park. In doing so, the motorbike collided with a metal gate in the middle of the track.
The 23 year old suffered a minor facial injury and a suspected leg and hand fracture. The 27 year old male suffered severe head injuries (and was subsequently pronounced dead on scene).
The 23 year old male involved in this accident contacted the emergency services, which resulted in an intense police and ambulance search operation to locate the exact whereabouts of the pair, with the team being considered for this search, the pair were discovered by the GMP Air Support Unit helicopter which directed ambulance staff and police officers to the scene.
It was at this stage that were contacted by Ambulance Control.
Just after midnight a full team callout was instigated to recover the body of the 27 year old man.
In total 24 team members responded, initially providing lighting for the Police investigation team.
At approximately 01:45, an evacuation of the male’s body commenced, to the police & ambulance RVP on Slag Lane, in the Plank area of Pennington Flash, Leigh.
Team members tidying kit away after this incident.
By 02:30 in the morning of Tuesday 29th April, the body recovery operation was completed with our involvement in this incident ending at 03:00 with our vehicles back at base.
Resources involved in this incident included two NWAS emergency ambulances, an ambulance rapid response vehicle, an ambulance area operational manager, and various GMP traffic and divisional police officers including their Collision Reconstruction Unit, all combined with our 24 members and two of our team Landrover ambulances, and the GMP Air Support Unit. (The Pennington Flash area Ranger also attended to open gates in an attempt to get closer access to the incident location).
For some of our new members recently taken on, this was the first time they had been involved in a body recovery operation, made worse by the tragic circumstances of this accident.
The condolences of the team are expressed to the family of the 27 year old man who died.
By admin • 2008, Incident • Tags: BodyRecovery, Lowton