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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Oct 18 2008
Incident 105/2008
This afternoon during the Joint Foundation Course as participants, including our team members, were assembling for the main outdoor exercise element in the Noon Hill Gully area of Rivington, we became aware of a developing incident in the Rivington area.
NWAS (Lancashire) were responding to a report of a motorcycle RTC in the Rivington Lane, Rivington area during the process of which one of our team members in our BM4 vehicle was made aware by a member of the public of a mountain bike accident on the Eastern fringe of Lever Park.
It became apparent that this was one and the same incident and did actually involve a male, 30 year old, mountain biker. From the nearby Joint Foundation Course exercise location our BM3 landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulance with two persons on board and a Rossendale & Pendle MRT Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulance with four persons on board responded.
Our Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon with team member Matthew Hailwood also jointly responded to this incident.
The actual incident site was in the vicinity of Breres Meadow, Lever Park, Rivington.
The mountain biker in a group of 4 (?) bikers had suffered an accident in which he sustained injuries to his left hip. He was initially treated by an NWAS (Lancashire) RRV Paramedic, quickly joined by responding MRT – SAR personnel and an NWAS (Lancashire) emergency ambulance crew.
The mans injuries were splinted using an MRT vacuum splint and the quick rescue stretcher with Entonox pain killing gas being self administered. (Morphine was then administered by the NWAS staff).
From his location he was evacuated in our BM4 Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulance to the NWAS ambulance at Rivington Hall Barn ambulance RVP.
This incident took place in steadily worsening misty and heavy rain conditions and was concluded with the man being evacuated to Royal Preston Hospital in the NWAS emergency ambulance (closely followed by our BM3 vehicle which of course had to travel to RPH to collect all the equipment we had used that was still wrapped around the casualty.
In total the following assets were involved in this incident,
By admin • 2008, Incident • Tags: MountainBiker