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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Dec 4 2008
Incident 121/2008
With a very heavy snowfall forecasted for the Greater Manchester and Lancashire areas during the early hours of this morning, the North West Ambulance Service had requested MRTs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester to go to standby status overnight in case of need, to avoid the problems of team members themselves getting stuck in snow trying to reach MRT vehicle bases.
Bolton MRT, Rossendale and Pendle MRT and Oldham MRT all put contingency plans in operation, which in our case involved pre placing three team Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulances at team members houses in the Wigan, Swinton and Bolton areas, and preparing a rota of team members to be immediately available.
As the early hours of the morning progressed, the snow started to fall, but very quickly in the Bolton area turned to heavy sleet mixed with rain and windy conditions.
At 03.05hrs our Team Leader was directly contacted by NWAS (Manchester) ECC to mobilise the team to the Top o’ th’ Brow housing estate in Bolton, where an Emergency Ambulance was stuck on an icy snowbound road with a 4 year old child on board trying to get to hospital.
Our Team Leader directly called out team members crewing our BM1 and BM2 vehicles to respond to this incident, along with our Team Leader and Deputy Leader.
GMP also responded to this incident with a 4WD Traffic BMW, but were unable to assist the Ambulance on the very slippy road surface.
Our BM1 vehicle arrived first, to find out thankfully that the child had been transferred to another Ambulance, and had been taken safely to hospital, so jointly with GMP (2x other Police Officers had arrived) attempted to recover the Ambulance.
Our BM1 vehicle was fitted up with snow chains, (which we carry on board all our vehicles in winter) and easily accessed the Ambulances location, however by carefully reversing the Ambulance, (it was on a steep section of road on the housing estate, cars parked nearby and ice / snow all around) after some time the Ambulance reached a flatter section of road, and with better traction was able to depart.
Our 6x team members present left the scene to catch up on sleep, getting home around 05.00hrs.
By now it was clear that the heavy snow forecasted was now likely to be continuing sleet and heavy rainfall, at least in this part of Greater Manchester, and so it was thought no more calls would occur. (see Incident 122 and 123, never try to 2nd guess in a Mountain Rescue Team!)
By admin • 2008, Incident • Tags: Bolton, WinterRoadConditions