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Mar 9 2014

Incident 30/2014

At 13:56 today the team was paged by North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire) to attend an incident in the Chapeltown, Turton area of Bolton.

A 36 year old male had taken a turn for the worse when he fell from a rope swing, sustaining a suspected fracture of his right ankle. Ooops!

Four team vehicles were already present in the area, providing a safety cover for day two of the Bolton Hill Marathon, and so an immediate response was made.

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Team members were on scene at 14:08, with the first team Land Rover ambulance on scene at 14:10. A short carry of approximately 200m was required to bring the male back to the awaiting NWAS Emergency Ambulance, which was positioned at Station Road, Chapeltown.

Team members assisted with the carry back to the waiting NWAS ambulance, which departed with the male on board at 14:44 for Royal Bolton Hospital.

The team then returned to cover the Bolton Hill Marathon for the remainder of the day.

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Mar 9 2014

Incident 29/2014

At 11:43 today, team member and search dog handler Steve Nelson was contacted by SARDA Wales as part of an ongoing enquiry by North Wales Police, as a result of concern regarding a missing person from Greater Manchester.

Steve, along with navigator Elaine Gilliland and of course Search Dog Boris were tasked to search a small area in the vicinity of Dolgellau in North Wales, after first obtaining a scent article from the missing man’s home address.

By 18:12 today, Steve, Elaine and Boris had returned home, having cleared the requested area with no trail found.

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Mar 9 2014

Team provides Standby Rescue Cover for the second Bolton Hill Marathon Event

Today the team was very pleased to have been associated once again with the second annual Bolton Hill Marathon event, this year spread over two days, with a marathons held on Saturday and another one, following the same route, this Sunday.

Organised by Phil Eccleston from Bolton, this event took in a course from Moss Bank Park in Bolton, north across the moors to White Coppice, and a return along the Rivington reservoir chain back to Moss Bank Park.

This event aims to raise money for charities, with the beneficiaries of this year’s event being The National Autistic Society.

On Saturday, a cold and windy day (albeit dry!) greeted the circa 250 runners who took part in the 26.2 mile event – with much happy comment from the runners and marshals alike, who compared this year’s relatively calm conditions to last year’s bitterly cold temperatures.


The start/finish point at Moss Bank Park, taken as the runners began the marathon on Sunday 9th March

On Sunday, a much milder and in fact relatively warm day greeted the 150 runners again, with many of today’s runners having also competed in the previous day’s marathon!

Besides the National Autistic Society, a great many of the runners taking part were also doing so for their personal charities.

The Stansfield Sports Injury Clinic was kindly on hand to assist all runners at the start and finish, with all monies raised by their treatments on offer being kindly donated to the National Autistic Society.


A checkpoint near to Wilderswood, George’s Lane, Horwich (picture taken during Sunday’s event)

The team was on hand to provide first aid and rescue cover, with demands for such thankfully minimal.

In total we had twelve team members present on Saturday, in three of our Team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles. Sunday saw ten team members dispersed across four of our Land Rover ambulances. Team members first met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ for a 09.00hrs departure on both days, with all involved finishing back at our Base / HQ by 17.00hrs.

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Mar 8 2014

Incident 28/2014

At 12:43 today the team was paged by the North West Ambulance Service (Air Desk) with the report of an incident on the slopes of Rivington Pike.

A male mountain biker had been riding on the bridleway which runs on the south side of the Pike and had sustained an injury.

The North West Air Ambulance (Helimed 72) had also been called to this incident, along with two NWAS Rapid Response vehicles and an NWAS Emergency Ambulance.

Team vehicles which were already out in the area (as a result of our presence at the Bolton Hill Marathon) immediately responded to the vicinity of Rivington Pike.


The helicopter landed very near to the injured mountain biker at around the same time that some of the team’s Land Rover Ambulances began to arrive at the base of the Pike. As a result our direct assistance was not required. The injured male was quickly placed onto the aircraft for onward transport to Wythenshawe Hospital.

The team was stood down at 12:56 as no further involvement was required.

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Mar 6 2014

Team President visits The Bolton West Stroke Group

At the kind invitation of Brenda Nixon, Co-Ordinator for The Bolton West Stroke Group, our Team President, Bob Hutchinson, went along in our BM4 Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance to Horwich Resource Centre, Beaumont Road, Horwich to meet the members and tell them a little about the work of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Bob also told the group how the team was founded and held a question and answer session.

Unfortunately due to a sudden downpour it was not possible for the group to go outside to view the vehicle and equipment, but the group were most impressed by the contents of the ’trauma sack’.

At the end of his visit, the members present made an impromptu collection and presented Bob with the generous total of £19.91.

Brenda also promised a more formal donation from Group funds would be sent in the near future, which is very much appreciated.

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