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 26 2012
Incident 53/2012
At 15.54hrs this warm and humid afternoon, with good visibility at all levels, GMP attempted to contact our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, (Leaving a return contact message) very shortly afterwards contacting our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon.
GMP required the teams assistance with a solo female hill walker on Rivington Moor who had become ‘distressed in her present location,’ which was on boggy pathless moorland.
The walker had a GPS and was seemingly aware of local land marks and place names, giving her position as near to Noon Hill, but having lost the path and reporting she was now surrounded by boggy moorland.
In consultation with GMP, our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon informed GMP the location was actually in Lancashire, and so therefore the incident was passed to Lancashire Constabulary’s control and co-ordination.
Geoff Seddon was able to make immediate mobile phone contact with the hill walker, offering reassurance, and advice regards her location.
After consulting with Lancashire Constabulary and then our Team Leader, it was decided that Geoff would drive his 4WD vehicle along Georges Lane and onto the moorland track of Belmont road, skirting the moorland edge below Noon Hill, whilst Garry would drive up to the high point of the Rivington to Belmont road, with each trying to locate the walker and guide her to a path.
At 16.15hrs a pager call out message was made, for one of our Land Rovers to access the moorland tracks from the Rivington to Belmont road side.
Shortly after this, in further mobile phone contact with this female walker, Geoff established that she was now ok with her situation, and heading down off the moor towards the Belmont Road hill track and his location.
A pager stand down message was sent at 16.28hrs, with Geoff meeting up with the walker at circa 16.35hrs, who was now heading back to her car parked at the high moorland car park at Hordern Stoops.
At around this same time a Police Air Support Unit helicopter from the North West Air Operations Group (Police) which had been tasked to this incident by Lancashire Constabulary, arrived overhead and was stood down ‘on scene.’
Aside from Police resources, our Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader, nine other Bolton MRT team members were stood down responding to this call.
By admin • 2012, Incident • Tags: WalkerRambler