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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Feb 8 2014
Team assists LFRS to recover some fire hoses recently re-discovered on Anglezarke Moor
In 2011, what was subsequently established as England’s largest wildfire of 2011, saw a massive long running incident centred on a huge area of Anglezarke Moor, by Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, assisted by elements of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, in tackling a major moorland wild fire (Massive tracts of both grassland and woodland suffered)
Bolton MRT and Bowland Pennine MRT were involved in the incident lending logistical and other support to the fire fighting operations.
In late January 2014, whilst on the moors preparing for our Wednesday evening exercise of 29th January, Team Call Out list member Alistair Greenough chanced across a large amount of Fire Service Hose Reels, which had been mislaid in the aftermath of the Fire Service dealing with the moorland wild fires of 2011.
The location of this find of six hose reels, was communicated immediately to Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, who arranged for their recovery.
Today LFRS decided to recover these items from the grid reference supplied by us, in the vicinity of Hempshaws Ruins on the fringe of Anglezarke Moor.
A small number of team members involved with our provision of standby rescue cover for the LDWA Anglezarke Amble event, met up with LFRS resources from LFRS Preston Fire Station, late this morning to recover the hose reels.
Team members Steve Fletcher, Paul Copley and Sam McKay in our BM1 Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance, met up above Wards Reservoir, Belmont, with the Pump crew and Incident Pod Unit from LFRS Preston Fire Station, under the direction of LFRS Watch Manager, Green Watch, Mark Woodward.
LFRS decided to utilise their ‘Polaris’ All Terrain Vehicle to recover the hose reels, with our Land Rover in support.
Utilising the access gate keys we have on all our team vehicles, the Polaris and our Land Rover accessed the moorland track network to the Hempshaws area from Lead Mines Valley.
Getting to the location, almost double the amount of hose reels initially found by Alistair were ultimately recovered from the general location.
This operation illustrated the close links we have with LFRS, and how we can provide logistical support to LFRS, all as part of the LFRS co-ordinated Lancashire FOG Group (Fire Operations Group)
Team member Sam McKay spent the operation being driven around in the LFRS (Road Legal) Polaris vehicle, great fun but very cold in todays weather.
By admin • General news