The team was contacted by NWAS control to assist with the evacuation of a female with a lower leg injury from the grounds of Haigh Hall who had been dog walking when she fell.
The Saturday evening had been a meal to celebrate former team leader Garry Rhodes’ 27 years as team leader and so many of the team were unavailable due to the evenings festivities. Therefore assistance was requested from one of our neighbouring teams, Bowland Pennine MRT who kindly provided extra resources. Many of their team members live just on the border between the team areas and so were in an excellent position to help.
Between the 2 teams the lady was splinted and evacuated approx. 400m to the ambulance where she was taken to the royal albert Edward infirmary in Wigan for treatment.
A huge thanks to both Bowland Pennine and Rossendale & Pendle MRT’s who both agreed to give up their Saturday evening to provide mutual cover for us to allow team members to attend and celebrate Garry’s time as team leader.
Today, we were paged by our colleagues in Cheshire Search and Rescue Team for assistance with a developing search for a missing 14 year old girl. The girl had gone missing from her home address on Monday evening with police and search teams searching throughout Tuesday into the early hours of Wednesday.
With increasing concern for the girls welfare and due to a very large area to search, a large number resources were requested on Wednesday afternoon to work alongside Cheshire Constabulary.
Team members Steve Nelson and Elaine Gilliland who are also members of SARDA Wales along with Boris our specialist trailing search dog were requested first and assisted from early afternoon and into the evening.
The full team was paged by Cheshire Search and Rescue Team with a request for assistance at 16.30. A further 10 team members responded in 3 team vehicles who were quickly deployed to search large areas of Oulton Park near Little Budworth. Our team completed all allocated search areas and were stood down at around 11pm.
In total 162 search and rescue personnel assisted Cheshire Constabulary who itself had a very large number of officers involved.
Whilst the bi monthly team council meeting was taking place the team was paged by NWAS control to assist with an injured mountain biker in Rivington terraced gardens. The team mobilised and on arrival met with the rapid response paramedic who was with the casualty who had suffered chest and possibly back injuries.
He was given pain relief, loaded into a vacuum mattress then onto our mountain rescue stretcher for a short carry off to the waiting ambulance. From Rivington he was transferred to Royal Preston Hospital major trauma centre for further assessment and treatment.
We wish the man a speedy recovery back to cycling the moors in our area.
Our team were contacted by Bowland Pennine MRT via SARCALL at 02:48 this morning to assist with a search in the Healey Nab area of Chorley. The search was for a 23 year old male with concern for his welfare. 7 Bolton team members were available and worked with the members from Bowland Pennine to search the wooded areas of the Nab.
Fortunately the gentleman was located by the police as he was descending the hill and was taken for medical assessment. Our best wishes go to the gent and his family and hope he recovers soon.
Thanks to our colleagues from Bowland Pennine MRT for their request to help and their hospitality.
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Jun 12 2016
Incident 65/2016 – Rescue Haigh Hall, Wigan
The team was contacted by NWAS control to assist with the evacuation of a female with a lower leg injury from the grounds of Haigh Hall who had been dog walking when she fell.
The Saturday evening had been a meal to celebrate former team leader Garry Rhodes’ 27 years as team leader and so many of the team were unavailable due to the evenings festivities. Therefore assistance was requested from one of our neighbouring teams, Bowland Pennine MRT who kindly provided extra resources. Many of their team members live just on the border between the team areas and so were in an excellent position to help.
Between the 2 teams the lady was splinted and evacuated approx. 400m to the ambulance where she was taken to the royal albert Edward infirmary in Wigan for treatment.
A huge thanks to both Bowland Pennine and Rossendale & Pendle MRT’s who both agreed to give up their Saturday evening to provide mutual cover for us to allow team members to attend and celebrate Garry’s time as team leader.
By Paul Brain • 2016, Incident • Tags: Miscellaneous