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 6 2013
Incident 11/2013
At the conclusion of the below exercise, with the majority of team members who had taken part involved back at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ or en route back, the team was paged at 15.38hrs by Greater Manchester Police to render assistance in the developing search for a missing 31 years old woman in circumstances giving the Police cause for concern regards her well being.
Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE gathered the initial information from GMP and liaised with the Officer in Charge, and then sent out at 15.41hrs a full team call out page for all team members to RVP initially at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ.
With Police investigations gathering momentum, Police patrols were mounted in the area between Halliwell, Bolton and Rivington, with the aim of trying to locate the missing woman.
Thirty two Bolton MRT team call out list members, and five of our Probationary team members, responded to the call out, and soon team members in a variety of their private vehicles, and all four of our Team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance Vehicles were committed to a search of all likely road routes the missing person may have taken, between the Halliwell area where she was reported missing from and the Rivington area, where she was believed to have been heading to.
The teams part in the search operation was extended then to include searches of some specific areas, including the Wilton Quarry complex and parts of Lever Park, Rivington.
Our specialist SARDA Trail Dog Boris was deployed with his handler Steve Nelson (Fresh from their afternoons practice session, see below report) with Bolton MRT and former SARDA Dog Handler Dave Marsh acting as his navigator.
They followed a scent trail from the ‘place last seen’ of the missing woman, which gave some initial indication of a ‘direction of travel.’
The teams part in this search was co-ordinated from our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ (With thanks to our colleagues in Bowland Pennine MRT for allowing us to utilise their radio repeater on Winter Hill, which made our radio communications considerably easier to conduct) by a very experienced Bolton MRT search management team, including team member Ken Oakes (A now retired former GMP Missing Person Search Manager) our Training Officer Elaine Gilliland, Paul Brain dealing with the mapping and search plotting aspects and Diane Blakeley very ably keeping pace with all the search administration.
With the initial search phase nearing completion, and whilst in contact with GMP Officers regarding search options for continuing the search, the good news was received that the missing woman had returned to her home address, and at 17.55hrs a full team stand down was paged out to all team members.
By admin • 2013, Incident • Tags: Bolton, SearchUpland