Dec 31 2013
As part of our provision of assistance to NWAS (Greater Manchester) during this evenings New Years Eve, our last incident of 2013 came in at 23.20hrs when the team despatched our BM1 vehicle to an 88 years old female with a medical condition, in Blackrod, Bolton.
She was transported in our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance BM1 to Royal Bolton Hospital.
By admin • 2013, Incident • • Tags: Blackrod, Miscellaneous
Jan 3 2010
At circa 13:53 our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted direct by NWAS (Manchester) Control, requesting the team’s assistance at a serious road traffic collision on the A6 Blackrod bypass (by Douglas Valley golf course).
Two vehicles had been in collision resulting in two male and two female casualties. GMP Officers were already on scene, and the team was the first emergency medical response to arrive on scene.
Team members from our BM2 and BM4 vehicles carried out casualty care on the injured adults and children, working together with an off-duty hospital nurse, an off-duty A&E nurse (whose car and family were involved in this incident), and an off-duty NWAS (Lancashire) Paramedic.
One male casualty was splinted on scene on a longboard and headblocks, oxygen was administered to one of the children involved.
Two NWAS (Manchester) Emergency ambulances attended (including ex-team member Iain Peel who is now an NWAS Emergency Medical Technician), along with an NWAS (Manchester) operational manager and an NWAS (Manchester) assistant operational manager.
Also in attendance were two GMP Traffic Units and GMP Divisional officers. All the casualties involved were transported to hospital by the two NWAS emergency ambulances.
During this incident the A6 Blackrod bypass was closed to traffic and thanks are given here to all the passers-by who stopped to assist and other drivers including a tractor driver who stopped to protect the scene.
In total 9 Bolton MRT members and two team Landrover ambulances were involved in this incident.
By admin • 2010, Incident • • Tags: Blackrod, RoadTrafficCollision
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Feb 3 2015
Incident 25/2015 – Search in Blackrod for missing 90 year old man
This very cold afternoon, at 15.00hrs a GMP Missing Person Search Manager directly contacted our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes MBE, requesting the teams immediate attendance with a developing Police search for a missing 90 year old man.
The man had gone missing earlier this same day from a Residential Care Home in the Blackrod area, and a combination of his age, condition and the cold freezing weather, gave considerable concern for his welfare.
A full team immediate call out was made, including our Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog and our DVSD Search Dog, with our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE liaising at 15.46hrs with Simon Lane, Team Leader of Cheshire Search and Rescue Team, for his teams immediate assistance as well.
With many Bolton MRT members responding to collect our Team vehicles, and our Team Leader responding direct to the missing mans Care Home / GMP RVP, the excellent news came at 15.53hrs that the man had been safely located in Horwich, and the search response was immediately stood down.
The following resources were known to be involved in this search operation or responding to take part in it;
By Paul Brain • 2015, Incident • • Tags: Blackrod, SearchLowland