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
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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
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❓ 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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Dec 16 2012
Incident 99/2012
Late this morning at 54 year old solo walker from the Westhoughton, Bolton area, whilst out walking in the lower part of the Terraced Gardens at Rivington slipped sustaining a serious ankle injury.
Passers by including a runner alerted both the Ambulance service and the staff at the nearby Great House Barn information centre.
NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Operations Centre Air Desk alerted and despatched the North West Air Ambulance Helimed 72 from its City Airport Manchester (Barton) airbase.
The casualty site was initially thought, based on reports, to be on the track system in the vicinity of Rivington Hall Barn (popularly known as the “top” barn).
The local United Utilities Ranger, alerted by staff at the Great House Barn information centre, established that Helimed 72 had landed in fields near to the South Lodge entrance of the Terraced Gardens, and opened up local access gates, driving his Land Rover near to where the helicopter had landed to liaise with the helicopter crew.
It was quickly realised that the services of Mountain Rescue would be required and at 11:57 we were paged to assist.
In the meantime, a nearby member of Rossendale & Pendle MRT, Jake Clark, having seen Helimed 72 land close by, offered his services. The first two Bolton MRT team members to arrive at the initial RVP of Rivington Hall Barn, at 12:12, Gill Leigh and Mark Scott quickly established the casualty site location to be the steep wooded hillside, just above the South Lodge entrance to the Terraced Gardens, and they guided in our responding team vehicles & members.
The casualty had sustained a serious fracture dislocation of his left ankle, and with the Helimed crew and our MR casualty carer Mark Scott jointly working together, the casualty was given painkilling drugs.
At 12:58, Helimed 72 lifted off with the casualty en-route to Royal Blackburn hospital.
The following resources were involved in this incident:
Given the popularity of the area this incident attracted a large crowd of interested bystanders, one of whom we understand included former team member from the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Dave Carpenter, who supplied photographs of the incident to the daily Bolton News newspaper (the report on this incident, with Dave’s photographs, should be in the Monday 17th December edition of the Bolton News)
By admin • 2012, Incident • Tags: WalkerRambler