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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Jan 2 2013
Incident 9/2013
At 10.04hrs this very wet new year morning, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary regarding a request for our specialist search assistance utilising our water borne assets for a search operation in the Preston Docklands area, in regards to a missing person enquiry.
This area lies within the operational response area of our colleagues at Bowland Pennine MRT, who have the appropriate personal equipment to respond to waters incidents but do not currently possess a search boat (The BPMRT is regularly called to assist in multi agency responses to water incidents) hence our being contacted.
Garry then liaised with our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon (Who heads up our ‘Water Team’) and then gathered further necessary information from the Police Officer involved on scene, before sending out a ‘Limited team member call out’ pager message at 10.28hrs.
Five Bolton MRT appropriately trained team members responded, meeting to depart from our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, and travelling to the Preston Docklands RVP in one of our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles, along with our 3.5m long semi rigid inflatable SAR Boat.
They arrived at the Search RVP by 11.45hrs, joining a search effort concentrated on the Preston docklands area, involving Lancashire Constabulary resources, assets from the Coastguard Maritime Agency and the North West (Police) Underwater Search and Marine Unit.
Meanwhile the NW(P)USMU were also conducting their operations in the same area, alongside a specialist sonar scan search.
Completing this tasking by 14.20hrs, our members then commenced a Kayak search of the River Ribble bank margins bordering the former docks, when the sad news was received that the body of the missing woman had been located and recovered by the North West (Police) Underwater Search and Marine Unit.
Our members present departed to return to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at circa 15.30hrs.
It was subsequently announced that the body recovered is believed to be that of a 48 years old woman missing from home.
The condolences of the team are expressed to the family of the woman involved.
By admin • 2013, Incident • Tags: Preston, Water