2011

Dec 19 2011

Incident 74/2011

With wintry conditions still existing in the teams moorland (and most lowland) parts, we were not surprised to receive another winter related call out from NWAS.

Yet again, as with yesterday morning, it was NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Control Centre, who contacted us by pager at 08.40hrs for assistance gaining access to a moorland residence / farm, where a male was suffering from breathing difficulties.

An NWAS (Lancashire) RRV with a solo crew member had responded but very icy road conditions precluded the vehicle gaining access to the property via the access track.

Three team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances responded to Uglow Farm / The Stables off Broadhead Road, Edgworth, Turton, but it was team member Steve Nelson’s arrival as the first responding MRT team member at 09.10hrs that quickly resolved the situation.

Arriving in his personal Range Rover, he was able to transport the NWAS emergency ambulance staff direct to the property, collect the casualty and transport all back to the NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Ambulance waiting at Broadhead Road, just as our Land Rovers and other members started arriving.



The Emergency vehicles RVP on Broadhead Road
By 09.30hrs the casualty was en-route to Royal Manchester Hospital, and the team was stood down.

The following resources were deployed to this Incident;

  • NWAS (Lancashire);
    • Emergency Control Centre,
    • one Rapid Response Vehicle / solo crew,
    • one Emergency Ambulance from Blackburn Ambulance Station.
  • Lancashire Constabulary local Police Officer PC Alan Hurst.
  • Bolton Mountain Rescue Team;
    • three Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances,
    • 15x team members on scene and two further members stood down responding.

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Dec 18 2011

Incident 73/2011

This morning after a very severe frost and overnight snowfalls, the team was paged at 08.05hrs by NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Control Centre, to assist an Emergency Ambulance crew gain access to a domestic address in Darwen, where a male elderly casualty required treatment and wintry road conditions prevented the crew getting their Ambulance close to the address.

A fully detailed pager call at 08.12hrs led to twelve team members responding to the scene, including our first members who arrived at 08.45hrs, and two of our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances arriving on scene at 08.55hrs and 08.57hrs.

At this stage with a further ten team members still responding, the team was stood down on scene, as the casualties condition had stabilised and transfer to hospital was no longer required.

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Dec 10 2011

Incident 72/2011

At 13:52 this afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Belle Vue ECC, for assistance at an incident involving a resident in the rear of his property, where he had fallen injuring himself in his garden at Lever Park Avenue, Horwich, at the entrance to Lever Park, Rivington.

Due to the location of the male casualty in his large garden and the nature of his injuries, the team was required to assist the NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Ambulance crew already on scene.

Fortunately at the time of our being paged, Team member Chris Tennant was at our Bolton Fire Station vehicle garage, carrying out some maintenance work, and an immediate initial vehicle response was made.

Our first team member on scene was Diane Blakeley at 14:02, quickly followed by other responding team members, with our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle ‘BM3’ arriving on scene at 14:10.

Working jointly with the NWAS crew, the injured male, who had fallen from height, sustaining upper arm injuries and also suffering the onset of hypothermia, was treated, and evacuated out of his garden to the waiting NWAS Emergency Ambulance at the roadside, on a SAR Alpine Lite Mountain Rescue Stretcher.

By 14:23 this incident was stood down, with the casualty on board the NWAS Ambulance.

Eleven team members were involved in this incident with a further six stood down responding.

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Nov 27 2011

Incident 71/2011

At 17:59 this evening, the team was paged by NWAS Lancashire Emergency Control centre who were requesting our assistance at an incident in Adlington, near Chorley.

With one team member still at the team base from the earlier fell race, and several others having only just left, the team was able to make a very quick response to this call.

The team was requested to assist an NWAS Lancashire ambulance crew and RRV who were at the scene of an incident on the Leeds to Liverpool canal, Adlington.

A 52 year old female, who was a resident on one of the canal narrowboats, had suffered a suspected serious stroke and the NWAS staff had requested Mountain Rescue assistance in order to carry the patient a few hundred metres down the canal towpath to the waiting ambulance at Allanson Hall Farm, situated just off the A6.




Team members load the casualty onto the Bell Mountain Rescue stretcher

Coincidentally, the NWAS Ambulance crew who requested us were the same crew that we had worked with earlier in the day at Sunnyhurst Wood in Darwen on incident 70/2011.

The first team members arrived at the RV point at 18:25, with the first responding team vehicle arriving at 18:28. Equipment from the vehicle, including evacuation and scene lighting equipment, was immediately sent up the towpath to the narrowboat. Team members then worked with the NWAS staff and members of the public in the rather tricky extraction of the patient from the narrowboat, and then placed her onto one of the team’s Bell Mountain Rescue stretchers.

The casualty was then carried by the team approximately 320m down the towpath back to Allanson Hall Farm, where she was then transferred to the NWAS Ambulance which quickly departed for the Royal Preston Hospital.




The incident RVP at Allanson Hall Farm, Adlington
The majority of the team was stood down at 19:00 however the team LandRover then travelled with the NWAS Ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital to recover equipment that was used on this incident (the vehicle was back at the Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ at 20:40)

The following resources were used in this incident:

  • NWAS Lancashire Emergency Control Centre
  • NWAS Emergency Ambulance with two crew on board
  • NWAS Rapid Response Vehicle with one crew member
  • Bolton MRT, one team vehicle and a total of 18 personnel involved and a further three team members stood down responding.

This incident marks the first operational use of our recently purchased PELI RALS 9440 scene lighting equipment, which proved very useful this evening in turning the dark canal towpath into near daylight!

The team would like to thank the members of the public, including some local residents, who helped by giving directions to the responding team members and NWAS crews.

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Nov 27 2011

Incident 70/2011

At the conclusion of this afternoon’s David Staff Memorial Fell Race in Darwen (see news article), and as team vehicles were preparing to return to base, at 12:38 today team Training Officer Elaine Gilliland (who was stationed at the fell race Start/Finish point at Sunnyhurst Wood) was asked by one of the race organisers to attend to a member of the public who had slipped on a path within the woods.

At the same time, NWAS Lancashire were contacting the team to request our attendance at the same incident, to which they had already despatched an Emergency Ambulance from the nearby Darwen Ambulance station.

As the NWAS Ambulance arrived, Elaine requested that the team attend as a short carry down a path and steps was required. Two nearby vehicles carrying an additional ten team members which were involved in the earlier fell race cover attended (the other three team vehicles remained at their RVP at Tockholes Information Centre).

Arriving very soon after they were requested, equipment from the first attending team vehicle was sent up the short path to the casualty, who was suspected to have suffered a fractured lower leg/ankle. Painkilling drugs were administered and the casualty’s injured limb was splinted by the NWAS crew and Bolton MRT members. Upon the arrival of the second team vehicle, the team then carried the 58 year old gentleman, who was out walking with his daughter, down to the ambulance on a SAR Alpine Lite MR stretcher.

The casualty was then taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital by the NWAS Ambulance, where one team vehicle also travelled to recover items of equipment from the casualty after he had arrived at A&E.

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