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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May 28 2014
Wednesday evening weekly exercise, Bradshaw Brook, Bolton
Our evening exercise tonight took place in the wooded steep sided rocky valley section of Bradshaw Brook, Bradshaw, Bolton.
Organised by team members Tony Dawson and Chris Weatherhead, the scenario involved a cragfast male on one of the many rocky outcrops that make up this part of Bradshaw Brook, and a seriously injured female, lay at the base of the rockface – and to make things more interesting, ‘we’ were told Bradshaw Brook was in full spate / flow, and so the only access was from the top of the rock outcrop, with both exercise casualties having to be raised to the top – rather than the more usual being lowered to the bottom.
Playing the part of the two exercise casualties was Bolton MRT team member Jess Ellsmore, and her friend from Langdale Ambleside MRT (Also a former Teesdale and Weardale MRT member) Chris Toward.
At the exercise casualty site, Bolton MRT team member Alistair Greenough was present to oversee and comment upon the casualty care (He is a very experienced Accident and Emergency Nurse) whilst former Bolton MRT member Gyles Denn was present to oversee safety aspects.
With thanks to Bolton District Girl Guides, for the use of their Headquarters building car park, the ‘responding’ team members met at ‘The Stables,’ Bradshaw, with a search party sent out first.
During the course of tonight’s exercise, Chris was raised / assisted back up the rock face, using a rescue harness, whilst Jess was raised up on our Bell Mountain Rescue Stretcher, involving a line rescue raising system.
In total aside from the exercise casualties, organisers and observers, mentioned above, 22x team call Out list members were involved in this evenings challenging exercise.
Thankfully the threat of rain never materialised, nor did the dreaded midges make more than a token appearance.
Starting at 20.00hrs, the exercise was concluded at circa 23.10hrs following a short debrief by Chris Weatherhead, back at ‘The Stables.’
As with all our exercises, various points and issues raised will be addressed in subsequent training exercises.
With many mid week and weekend ‘Standby Rescue Covers’ commitments for a number of events (Six) in our local moorland area over June, our next evening training exercise is not scheduled to take place until July.
By Paul Brain • Training