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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Oct 7 2013
Incident 97/2013
A call was passed to us directly today from Rossendale and Pendle MRT, who in error had been contacted by Lancashire Constabulary, regarding MRT assistance in relation to a rapidly developing search for a missing man.
The call from Ted Handley of RPMRT was taken by our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes MBE at 16.39hrs, who then contacted the Force Incident Manager at Lancashire Constabulary for further information.
The search, around the margins of Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, in the West Pennine Moors, was in relation to a 65 years old male who had become separated from his female companion, whilst walking around the reservoir.
With some concern for his welfare, due to a medical condition, a large number of Lancashire Constabulary Officers were despatched to the area, along with a Police helicopter.
Garry then contacted the local Divisional Police Officer, who confirmed the team was still required, which resulted in a full team pager call out at 16.57hrs.
Team members were requested to assemble initially at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, with plans made to dispatch all six team vehicles and our SAR Boat to the search RVP, which was established at Batridge Road Car Park, Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, north of Chapeltown.
Our first arriving member John Dickinson, reached the RVP at 17.15hrs to liaise with Police on scene.
By 17.30hrs, our Deputy Team Leader, Geoff Seddon, had commenced a search of the track network from the A666 into the Cadshaw area, using his 4WD vehicle.
As our 2nd member John Fletcher arrived at the RVP at 17.35hrs and with two team vehicles (Land Rover BM1 and Incident Control Vehicle BM6) just minutes away from the RVP, the missing man with his dog, turned up safe and well at the Search RVP, and by 17.43hrs Police confirmed that the team could be stood down.
At this stage, a further (third) team vehicle had mobilised, and a great many team members were stood down mobilising directly or about to leave our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ.
Thanks as ever to our friends at Bowland Pennine MRT who allowed us to utilise their ‘Winter Hill Repeater’ radio channel to greatly improve the efficiency in this area of our radio communications.
Thanks also to Ted Handley of Rossendale and Pendle MRT, who remained available ready to contact the rest of the RPMRT should their services be required to assist with this search.
The following resources were known to have deployed to this search operation;
By admin • 2013, Incident • Tags: SearchLowland