Jul 1 2017
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.
Jun 30 2017
This afternoon the team was contacted by Greater Manchester Police for assistance with a search centred around Pennington Flash.
A 63 year old man was causing concern for his welfare, who regularly walked around the Pennington Flash park, and lived locally. Due to the large area to be searched, we also requested assistance from Cheshire LSAR.
20 team members were involved in this search with 7 colleagues from Cheshire LSAR.
With the identified search areas complete all team members stood down at midnight
Jun 23 2017
At 19;57 this evening the team was contacted by the North West Ambulance Service for assistance to lift a male casualty who was trapped in a river culvert in Darwen.
The man had suffered a lower leg injury and the ambulance crew were unable to lift the man without assistance.
14 team members attended this incident and managed to extract the man and transfer to the waiting ambulance.
Jun 21 2017
The team was contacted by our neighbouring team Rossendale & Pendle MRT for assistance with a walker who had fallen whilst out walking near Churn Clough Reservoir.
We had 11 team members responding in 3 team Land Rover Ambulances.
Whilst both teams were responding, both were stood down, as friends of the man had reached the casualty on a quad bike and had transported him off the hill on to hospital.
In June 2020 we sent over ten fire engines, to a moorland fire upon Darwen Moor as well as a lot of resources from @unitedutilities @BoltonMRT and other agencies attending this major incident incident. @DCCWoods has confirmed that two Lancashire residents have now been charged. twitter.com/DCCWoods/statu…
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