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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Jul 8 2015
Team provides standby rescue cover for Midweek MTB Madness mountain bike event in Leverhulme Park
This evening saw team members providing standby rescue cover for the Midweek MTB Madness mountain bike event, attracting 91x entrants, held at Leverhulme Park, Bolton.
This is the first time we have been associated with this fantastic event, with the race commencing at 19.15hrs, whilst practice laps started at 18.00hrs.
Our team members started assembling at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at 16.45hrs, arriving at the Leverhulme Park Race RVP at 17.15hrs.
Here our initially arriving team members in our six team vehicles set up our control point, utilising our Incident Control Vehicle, immediately next to the event control and finish point.
Thirteen team members took the opportunity to walk the event course, including our Team Leader, and our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh, who had previously walked the course and met the organiser Mick Speirs on Wednesday 24th June 2015 (see website ‘News’ report dated the same)
Our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh then organised where around the course our team members would be based, whilst our Team Leader further liaised with the event organising team.
The entire course was very well marked with all routes clearly indicated and marshalled, for the 19.15hrs start, which saw concurrent races including the following categories for the 91x taking part;
Racer, Enthusiast, Women and Youth, all taking part in this multi lap event through the woodlands and over the open grasslands of Leverhulme Park including a crossing of Bradshaw Brook.
All passed without thankfully any requirement for our services, and by circa 20.20hrs all competitors had safely completed their multi lap events.
Over the course of this evening we met up with many friends and supporters of the Bolton MRT including Simon Fox of Darwen Dashers Running Club fame, and Neil Brown of Horwich Festival of Racing, both of whom were assisting with this event.
We also met the casualty from our Incident 54 iii of Sunday 21st June 2015, Horwich Festival of Racing, who informed us of the healing progress of his leg injury.
In total we deployed thirty team Call Out list members around the course this evening, at multiple points in order to react quickly to any requests for our services, with all four of our Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances attending, plus our Ford Transit minibus / Ambulance and our Incident Control Vehicle.
In the way we like to take the mickey out of each other, we took great delight in one team member who mistook / misheard the Leverhulme Park venue location and instead went first to a similar sounding location in Rivington! two members forgot that a mountain rescuer never gets separated from their rucksacs! and a certain later arriving team member who shall remain nameless regaled all his earlier arriving hungry colleagues (who had yet to have their evening meal) with how delightful his just digested restaurant meal had been!
Tomorrow evening will see the team for only the second year running providing standby rescue cover for the Bull Hill Fell Race, organised by Radcliffe Athletics Club.
The race, starting at Boardmans Farm, Hawkshaw, takes in a route up to Lark Hill, thence to Bull Hill summit and on to Alden Ratchers, then to Beetle Hill, Pilgrims Cross, Holcombe Head Farm, to finish in the vicinity of Holcombe Hey Fold Farm, Holcombe.
By Paul Brain • Safety Cover