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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Aug 15 2012
Incident 58/2012
At 00.44hrs in the early hours of this morning, the team was contacted via SARCALL and pager by Lancashire Constabulary requesting the teams immediate assistance in relation to a missing person.
The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE who initially liaised with the Force Incident Manager and then the assigned (Police) Missing Person Search Manager.
The search was for a missing 59 years old Blackburn man, who had last been seen by a family member on Sunday evening 12th August, and was reported missing to the Police on Monday 13th August.
On Tuesday afternoon 14th August, the missing persons car was located parked up on the moorland roadside of Belmont Road (A675) alongside Rake Brook Reservoir on the outskirts of Abbey Village.
A Lancashire Constabulary search was launched involving their Police helicopter, a General Purpose Police Dog Unit and local Police Officers.
With mounting concern for the welfare of the missing person, the search was extended to involve mountain rescue and additional Police resources, resulting in the early morning request for our services.
By 00.51hrs our Team Leader had placed the team on immediate standby whilst he journeyed to the Hare and Hounds Public House Search RVP at Abbey Village to further liaise with Police.
Team members consult a map as part of the early morning search
At 01.28hrs our Team Leader arrived on scene, followed soon by our first responding members.
The team was deployed in searching margins of Rake Brook Reservoir in the Roddlesworth reservoir system, and woodlands on the outskirts of Abbey Village.
With the arrival and subsequent deployment of our specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog, a trail of the missing person from his car was located, leading to a moorland quarry now forming a Christmas Tree Nursery.
Repeated ‘trails’ all led to this former quarry, above the moorland villages of Abbey Village and Withnell, resulting in a very thorough search by Bolton MRT members, assisted by ‘Nitesun’ (A powerful searchlight) illumination by a Police helicopter, which remained on scene from circa 04.20hrs to 04.55hrs.
As the early morning (Thankfully warm and dry) turned into dawn, our search effort did not diminish, but by 06.30hrs this ‘first phase’ of the mountain rescue element of the search was stood down, with Police enquiries and a review of the next phase of the search effort taking place.
By 07.30hrs our members involved were in their beds trying to catch up on much needed sleep.
The following resources were involved in this ‘Mountain Rescue’ phase of the search operation;
By admin • 2012, Incident • Tags: SearchUpland