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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Jul 2 2012
Incident 48/2012
At 17:35 early this evening, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was in conversation with Mick Nield, Team Leader at Oldham MRT regarding a developing search in Heaton Park, Manchester, in connection with a missing young man. Colleagues from Rossendale and Pendle MRT had already been placed on standby by Oldham MRT and it was decided to also place the Bolton MRT on standby to possibly assist in this search.
Chris Brahney, aged 22, from Timperley, was last seen by friends around 23:30 on Friday night, 29th June, in Heaton Park, where he was attending the first of three Stone Roses concerts at the venue.
At the end of the concert he had become separated from his friends, and was subsequently reported missing.
With growing concern to establish his whereabouts, Greater Manchester Police requested that mountain rescue undertake a thorough search of the very extensive grounds of Heaton Park.
Oldham MRT assessed the search areas and very quickly called out RPMRT and ourselves to assist, with a full team call out page being made at 18.11hrs for our members to initially rendezvous at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to travel to the search RVP in team vehicles.
By 19.50hrs most of our responding members had arrived at the search control point set up by GMP / Oldham MRT at the Lake / Sheepfoot Lane Car Park within Heaton Park.
We joined other MRTs and SARDA assets in a large scale search of the parkland, woods, ravines, and gardens of Heaton Park.
We were tasked with clearing the area immediately around the stage compound area, (Which was still in place from the concert) and checking the many ditches, dense shrub thickets and pockets of woodland encircling the boundary of the south west part of the park.
Our part of the search operation commenced at 20.15hrs, completing at 21.55hrs.
Within our search area we located personal effects and footwear, none of which was deemed to belong to the missing person. (We also ‘discovered’ a man sleeping ‘rough’ in woodland)
By circa 22.30hrs most searchers present had completed their areas, with the Bolton MRT leaving for home at 22.36hrs.
GMP enquiries and specific search operations are continuing to try and locate this missing young man, with searches of water bodies within the park taking place we understand on Tuesday 3rd July 2012.
The following resources were deployed and engaged on this search operation;
By admin • 2012, Incident • Tags: SearchLowland