Jul 1 2017
Incident 52/2017 – Mountain Biker Jumbles Reservoir
Team members Steve Nelson and Elaine Gilliland were walking in the Jumbles area where they were approached by a mountain biker reporting an incident.
A friend of the rider had fallen off his mountain bike sustaining injuries requiring a short stretcher carry to the nearest roadhead.
8 team members responded to this incident where they assisted the ambulance crew, loading the casualty on a stretcher and carrying to the ambulance.
Jul 1 2017
Incident 53/2017 – Continuation of the Pennington Flash Search
At 10:45 this morning the team was contacted again by Greater Manchester Police for a continuation of the search for a missing man from the Lowton area.
Greater Manchester Police had identified additional search areas which required our assistance.
For this search we requested assistance from Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team, who supplied 4 team members, who assisted 12 Bolton team members searching the identified areas.
Towards the end of the search, the team were contacted by the Police who had found the man outside our search areas.
We would like to pass on our condolences to the mans family.
By Paul Brain • 2017, Incident • Tags: SearchLowland