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 59/2012
At 09.25hrs this morning, we were contacted via SARCALL and pager by Lancashire Constabulary, to further assist in the continuation of the search of this morning for a missing 59 year old Blackburn man.
With the main focus of the search operation likely to be to the south of the A675 Belmont Road, the request was passed after liaison with the (Police) Missing Person Search Manager by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE to Bowland Pennine MRT. (Who have operational responsibility to the south of the A675 in this area)
Following an update by our Team Leader to Phil O’Brien, Team Leader of BPMRT as to the search of the early morning, it was decided that both teams would respond, and by 10.48hrs the full team was paged to assist Bowland Pennine MRT.
Once again our specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog was utilised, alongside an Air Scenting Search dog from the Bowland Pennine MRT.
Lancashire Constabulary Officers concentrated their search effort around the shores and adjacent woodlands of Rake Brook Reservoir, the search dogs and BPMRT personnel concentrated their search efforts again around the former nearby quarry, now a Christmas Tree Nursery, whilst a small Bolton MRT party deployed to another quarry and associated water body close to where the missing mans car had been located. (Thanks to BPMRT member Paul Durham for finding some personal kit lost during the early morning search by Bolton MRT member Steve Fletcher)
Once more a Police helicopter also joined in the search, the third time such had been deployed in the search for this missing man.
Bowland Pennine MRT co-ordinated the search effort, from a Search RVP once again set up in the car park of the Hare and Hounds Public House, Abbey Village.
At circa 13.10hrs the sad news was received that a Police search party had located the body of the missing man in woodland to the south east shore of Rake Brook Reservoir within Roddlesworth Number 2 Plantation.
With very heavy rain showers now developing, both MRTs were requested by Lancashire Constabulary to evacuate the mans body, once Police investigations had been carried out.
At this stage some Police resources involved were stood down, with a number of MRT members leaving to return to work, whilst some colleagues remained behind to undertake the evacuation of the mans body.
By 15.20hrs the stretcher evacuation of the man commenced from the woodlands to the A675, completed shortly after 16.00hrs in conditions of torrential rain.
By 16.25hrs all search resources on scene had been stood down and commenced returning to their home locations.
The following resources were involved in this phase of the search operation;
The team would like to express its thanks to the owner and management of the Hare and Hounds Public House for kindly granting permission for the Search RVP to be set up on the pub car park.
All involved in this search operation would like to extend their condolences to the daughter, brothers, family, friends and colleagues of the man involved.
By admin • 2012, Incident • Tags: SearchUpland