At 15:51 hours we were contacted by NWAS (Manchester) to respond to the report of a football player at Goshen Lane Sports Club, Redvales, Bury, who had suffered a serious leg fracture.
Our 4 Landrover ambulances plus BM5 (the ’Hummer’) with a total of 12 team members responded to this call with our first vehicle arriving on scene at 16:08 to find a male sports player had suffered a serious leg fracture of the lower left leg. (Upon our arrival excellent first aid was already being administered by, we believe, the referee, who was maintaining the injured mans leg in traction easing considerably his pain).
Team members administered Entonox and morphine prior to vacuum splinting his very serious leg fracture. He was then stretcher evacuated to our BM1 Landrover Ambulance and taken in this vehicle to Bury Fairfield hospital.
The team would like to thank members of the football team and the sports club who did much to comfort this man up to our arrival, and who also guided our responding vehicles through the maze of local streets to the playing fields complex.
This incident as with the previous one took place in conditions of poor visibility, freezing fog combined with semi-frozen ground (with the extra delight of it being dark!)
Today 8 team members in 4 team vehicles whilst in the team area with the prior knowledge of NWAS (Manchester) control (see the Tricia Dorgan story from today) received a callout from NWAS to the report of a rugby player who had suffered a serious injury on playing fields in the Leigh area.
Team members arrived on scene to meet up with the responding NWAS Rapid Response Vehicle Paramedic, to discover a rugby player from a Yorkshire rugby team had sustained a very serious dislocated shoulder.
Entonox pain-killing gas and morphine was administered, with the injured player then being stretcher evacuated to the nearby roadside.
It was decided to transport the injured rugby player direct to hospital in the rear of our BM2 Landrover ambulance still on our stretcher, with the NWAS paramedic staying with the casualty. (we drove the rapid response vehicle to hospital on the paramedics behalf).
This incident took place during freezing fog conditions with poor visibility and temperatures hovering around 0 degree centigrade.
At 16:45 hrs today whilst still at our team base following the equipment demonstration at Broughton Fire Station, in the company of two other team members our team leader received a direct mobile phone call out from NWAS (Manchester) PEC (Paramedic Emergency Control) regarding the initial reports of a woman fallen off a bridge in the Stoneclough area.
A full team call out was paged at 16:49 hrs by which time our Bolton Mobile 2 vehicle with two crew on board and our team leader in his vehicle were already mobile. During the response NWAS PEC regularly updated our team leader by mobile phone and our responding crews via ERC.
Joining our response was our returning contingent in Bolton Mobile 4 from the Dartmoor exercise, who received the call out in the Leigh area and responded accordingly.
As more information was received during the teams response it became apparent that a rapid response vehicle paramedic was now on scene with the casualty and was reporting that the woman involved had apparently fallen over 40 feet vertical from the parapet of a bridge.
At 17:05 our BM2 vehicle and our Team Leader arrived at the ambulance RVP point at Seddon Fold Farm in the Stoneclough area. An NWAS emergency ambulance from Middleton had also previously arrived at this location and was able to direct our Team Leader to the casualty site.
By circa 17:18 our Team Leader and three other team members forming the initial response party arrived at the casualty site to joining the RRV paramedic.
It was quickly established that a 20 year old woman had indeed fallen some 40 feet vertical from a bridge parapet landing on rocky rubble immediately alongside the River Irwell.
The woman involved was in considerable pain and very cold due to the very wet and very muddy ground she had fallen on to. She was being comforted by two male colleagues.
An initial difficulty, which was then present throughout this incident, was the fact that the casualty and her two male colleagues were foreign nationals and there was considerable language difficulties involved in explaining our actions.
As more team members arrived and the incident developed appropriate equipment was dispatched to the casualty site, including the all important lighting given that this operation was taking place in the dark.
By 17:45 hrs the 20 year old female casualty had been stabilised on site and due to suspected spinal injuries had been placed on a full-length back board with head blocks and cervical immobilisation. In turn she was then placed on a Bell Mountain Rescue stretcher.
A simple rope haul system was set up by the team to get the stretcher up a short, but very steep muddy slope before continuing the carry to the waiting ambulance.
A rope handline had also been set up to assist team members and also to aid the womans’ two companions and the RRV paramedic back up the slope.
By 17:59 hrs the casualty had arrived at the ambulance and was transferred along with one of her colleagues to Royal Bolton Hospital.
Our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon took her other colleague to hospital following the ambulance.
In total 25 Bolton MRT members were involved in this incident along with our four Mountain Rescue ambulances. NWAS (Manchester) included a rapid response vehicle paramedic and an emergency ambulance crew from Middleton Ambulance Station.
The team also received much help by the way of directions to the casualty site from local youths.
With responding team members vehicles effectively blocking by necessity a nearby residential street the team thanks the residents involved for their consideration.
Taking place in darkness and in a very difficult to reach location this incident illustrated how the Bolton MRTs skills and resources can be utilised to excellent advantage working alongside NWAS resources.
We would like to place on record the excellent working relationship that was present throughout this incident from the three NWAS Emergency Ambulance staff involved and thanks to all at NWAS PEC for their direction and assistance to us for this incident.
At 15:30 today the team was contacted by NWAS Paramedic Emergency Control at Manchester regarding assistance to an injured woman within the Moses Gate Country Park, Farnworth, area.
Both our Team Leader and Deputy Leader collected relevant information from Ambulance Control ascertaining it was an injury to a horse rider who had shoulder and suspected spinal injuries.
A full team pager call was made at 15:39 resulting in an immediate response by our Mountain Rescue Landrover ambulances BM1 and BM3.
Our Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon was the first MRT member on scene, joining the Ambulance crew and establishing that the casualty site was on the bridle path system within the country park overlooking the River Croal just beyond the “Red Bridge”.
At 16:00 our BM1 arrived at the roadhead near to the “Red Bridge”, followed at 16:01 by our BM3 vehicle.
At the casualty site, the 26 year old experienced female horse rider (from the Stoneclough area) was given self-administered Entonox initially.
With her serious shoulder injury splinted she was then placed on a long-board completed with head blocks and cervical collar due to a possible spinal injury.
She was then further treated with a Fentanyl Lozenge opiate for pain relief.
The stretcher evacuation of the injured lady (on a Mountain Rescue stretcher) commenced at 16:22. By 16:27 the casualty had been evacuated to the waiting NWAS Emergency Ambulance at the “Red Bridge”.
She was then transported to Royal Bolton Hospital in the ambulance with team member Mark Scott accompanying the ambulance crew in their vehicle.
In total, 10 Bolton MRT team members were involved in this incident with a further 7 team members stood down responding. The NWAS Emergency Ambulance crew were from Bolton South (Highfield) Ambulance Station.
As an aside, former team member and current long-serving GMFRS Firefighter Ray Clift was walking his dog in the country park at the time of the incident and was aware of the NWAS Ambulance RVP; Ray gave directions to responding team members as they entered the country park.
Today North West Ambulance Service (GMA) paged the Team for assistance with an incident in the Didsbury area. At 14:58 a full team call out message was paged to provide assistance in the evacuation of a 26 year old male who had collapsed on a path next to the River Mersey, at Didsbury Golf Club.
Three Team members arrived on scene at 15:15 and together with the NWAS emergency ambulance & the rapid response vehicle crew already on scene, along with the North West Air Ambulance, Helimed 08, which had landed nearby, started to package the casualty for transportation back to the NWAS ambulance. Due to the speed of the response and with enough resources on scene, NWAS Control stood down other responding Team Members.
At this point a golf course groundsman arrived with a golf course buggy, enabling the casualty to be placed in the buggy on a longboard and transported to the waiting ambulance. A short journey later, with Team members John Parish, Steve Nelson & an NWAS Technician enjoying the golf buggy ride to the ambulance, during which Helimed 08 departed for another incident in Fleetwood. The casualty was soon placed into the ambulance for onward transportation to hospital.
Involved in this incident were 15 Team members, of which 12 were stood down responding, 2 Team vehicles, the Mountain Rescue Hummer, a NWAS (GMA) Ambulance, NWAS (GMA) RRV vehicle & the North West Air Ambulance Helimed 08.
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Nov 29 2008
Incident 116/2008
At 15:51 hours we were contacted by NWAS (Manchester) to respond to the report of a football player at Goshen Lane Sports Club, Redvales, Bury, who had suffered a serious leg fracture.
Our 4 Landrover ambulances plus BM5 (the ’Hummer’) with a total of 12 team members responded to this call with our first vehicle arriving on scene at 16:08 to find a male sports player had suffered a serious leg fracture of the lower left leg. (Upon our arrival excellent first aid was already being administered by, we believe, the referee, who was maintaining the injured mans leg in traction easing considerably his pain).
Team members administered Entonox and morphine prior to vacuum splinting his very serious leg fracture. He was then stretcher evacuated to our BM1 Landrover Ambulance and taken in this vehicle to Bury Fairfield hospital.
The team would like to thank members of the football team and the sports club who did much to comfort this man up to our arrival, and who also guided our responding vehicles through the maze of local streets to the playing fields complex.
This incident as with the previous one took place in conditions of poor visibility, freezing fog combined with semi-frozen ground (with the extra delight of it being dark!)
By admin • 2008, Incident • Tags: Miscellaneous