Come join the team for our Moors & Mountain- An evening of music with BoltonMRT. Doors open at 6.30pm at Christ Church Heaton, Bolton BL1 5A. We have some amazing music planned, a raffle, cake & mulled wine and even a display from the team #BoltonMRT #MREW #Fundraiser #MusicEvent pic.twitter.com/xRK7WbjZO3
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The Santas have been arriving at Rivington Pike as part of the @boltonhospice Hike the Pike. The team are helping with the event. Second group of Santas are well on their way 🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼 #BoltonMRT #MREW #BoltonHospice #Santa #HikeThePike pic.twitter.com/SAltmTzRNr
A massive thank you to outgoing President Alan Smith @TurtonRotary for supporting our work via a very kind donation of £500. He chose a number of local charities to benefit from the funds raised during his year in office. facebook.com/43382929665243… pic.twitter.com/P0JPWIC2G9
Bolton Sports Federation Ladies’ Rounders League made us their Charity for 2019 donating £2,950. This is an amazing sum & we would like to thank all the players, the Committee & everyone who supported & organised events. #BoltonMRT #MREW #BSFRoundersLeague #rounders #fundraising pic.twitter.com/hi7RF1XZ21
Donate to BoltonMRT- at no cost to you. Just head over to smile.amazon.co.uk and chose Bolton Mountain Rescue as your chosen charity then shop away like normal. #BoltonMRT #MREW #AmazonSmile #Donations #Giving #BlackFriday #Supporting #Volunteers #EveryPennyHelps pic.twitter.com/lHVqDZErHX
Donate to BoltonMRT- at no cost to you. Just head over to smile.amazon.co.uk and chose Bolton Mountain Rescue as your chosen charity then shop away like normal. #BoltonMRT #MREW #AmazonSmile #Donations #Giving #BlackFriday #Supporting #Volunteers #EveryPennyHelps pic.twitter.com/lHVqDZErHX
#Callout 0900hrs 16/10/19 with @BoltonMRT @NPASBarton @LancsTacOps and other resources to assist @PrestonPolice with an ongoing missing person search pic.twitter.com/YZ235cwZah
Callout at 21:39 last night to search for a missing 22 yr old female and 15 yr old male (brother and sister) on Winter Hill - working alongside @LancsPolice and @NPASBarton for a successful outcome - full details at facebook.com/BoltonMRT/post… pic.twitter.com/C6OPpwT1P4
@BoltonMRT demonstrating rope rescue skills at Bolton Central fire station open day. pic.twitter.com/94ECczK8kQ
Nov 28 2012
Incident 84/2012
At 12.26hrs this cold and clear blue sky early afternoon, we were paged by the NWAS (Lancashire Area) Emergency Control Room ‘Airdesk,’ regarding an incident on Winter Hill.
Answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, the airdesk despatcher informed Garry that they were responding to the report of a crashed hang glider on Winter Hill and that the NWAA ‘Helimed 72’ from City Airport Manchester (Barton) was airborne en route (Indeed at that moment it passed overhead over our Team Leaders house in Tyldesley)
It was not known at this time if the team would be required on scene or not, but with no exact location given for this incident on this moorland summit, NWAS requested the team mobilise.
A full team call out was paged at 12.32hrs by which time team members were already responding to our team vehicle locations and the general Winter hill area.
By coincidence our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon, was at the time of the call, in his vehicle at the base of the northern escarpment of Winter Hill, at the high point of the moorland road between Belmont and Rivington, and so he commenced an immediate visual search for the crashed hang glider location.
It turned out upon Helimed 72 (The NWAA Helicopter) landing on Winter Hill summit, that the crashed male hang glider pilot had suffered a head injury, and had been walked to his nearby vehicle by colleagues, where the responding NWAS Emergency Ambulance crew and the crew of Helimed 72 treated him.
At circa 12.40hrs we were ‘stood down responding as no longer required,’ with a pager call being sent to that effect at 12.45hrs.
In total sixteen Bolton MRT team call out list members were responding at the time of the call with one of our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances mobile en route and three other about to go mobile.
The injured man was taken to hospital by the responding NWAS Emergency Ambulance, with the NWAA Helicopter ‘Helimed 72’ stood down on scene.
By admin • 2012, Incident • • Tags: HangGliding, Horwich