Bolton

Jan 1 2016

Incidents 1 to 10 – 2016. Team assists North West Ambulance Service (Greater Manchester Area) during the early morning of New Years Day

This morning as with all previous New Year Days (For eighteen years now, commencing on 1st January 1998) the team had all four of it’s Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances, its Minibus Ambulance and our Incident Control Vehicle available, at the disposal of NWAS (Greater Manchester) who were dealing with a very high volume of calls upon its services, as part of the NWAS ‘Step Up’ procedure to mobilise additional resources to cope with the situation.

We had been formally requested on New Years Eve 2015, to be available at the request and tasking of NWAS (Greater Manchester) EOC Parkway.

Two team members had attended a briefing meeting at NWAS EOC Parkway on the evening of Thursday 31st December 2015 at 20.00hrs.

The team was working alongside additional resources also drafted in to help NWAS on what is now its busiest evening and early morning of the year.

All four of our Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances, Minibus Ambulance and Incident Control Vehicle were available, crewed with appropriately trained team personnel on board, all co-ordinated from our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ by our ’Control Team,’ themselves in contact with NWAS (Greater Manchester) Emergency Operations Centre, Parkway.

In total this evening we had thirteen team Call Out list members, assisted by team friend Louise Copley (helping with logging tasks) on immediate standby to assist at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ.

In total ten incidents were responded to, assisting NWAS (GMA) with the first at 00.12hrs and the last coming in at 05.14hrs.

All the calls were in the Bolton and Horwich areas,  mostly involving minor injuries and drink related injuries, with one suspected leg fracture dealt with, alongside a person with rib injuries.

By circa 06.45hrs, with all vehicles involved checked and kit used replenished, our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ was closed for the morning, with all our members present returning to catch up on some sleep.

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Dec 26 2015

Incident 97/2015 – The start of a long busy and very wet day!

Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, after a full morning of telephone liaison calls with colleague MRTs / SART, Lancashire Constabulary, GMP, and NWAS, regarding the worsening and very wet weather conditions, was requested by NWAS Greater Manchester Area, to place the full Bolton MRT on Base / HQ standby, as a result of the inclement weather and its likely impacts.

A full team call out was paged at 11.21hrs, and as team members, including our Team Leader, were assembling at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at 11.41hrs, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, was directly contacted by GMP to respond to an urgent local serious situation.

A ground floor property on Chorley New Road, Bolton, had totally flooded, with concerns for the welfare of the male resident, reported to be present within the building.

With GMFRS already in attendance at other multiple incidents, GMP had turned to Bolton MRT to seek any immediate assistance.

A team Land Rover, with three crew on board, was despatched from our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at 11.54hrs, one of the crew being dressed for water rescue.

Arriving on scene at 12.00hrs, to meet a GMP Officer also despatched, our responding crew was fortunately informed that the resident was safe and well and had not actually been in the property.

Other Bolton MRT appropriate resources, about to join in this incident were stood down.

A false alarm call with good intent – better to be safe than sorry.

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Sep 5 2015

Incident 68/2015 – Missing Woman in the Astley Bridge area of Bolton

At 16.20hrs this sunny afternoon, with some members present at the BMC Wilton Fest event, we were paged by GMP to assist immediately with a developing search for a missing 77 years old woman, in the Astley Bridge area of Bolton.

Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE liaised with GMP, and a full team pager call out following a brief standby was made at 16.32hrs.

A large number of team members and all our team vehicles arrived at the initial search RVP of Eden Lodge, Eden Street, Astley Bridge by circa 17.30hrs.

Here our Team Leader was further briefed on the growing GMP search operation, which earlier had included overflights by an NPAS helicopter of the area.

Given the woman’s age and the length of time she had been missing (Since circa 12 noon) concern was mounting for her welfare.

As initial Bolton MRT search parties were being deployed at just after 18.00hrs came the excellent news that via CCTV, the missing woman had been located in the area of Ashburner Street Market, Bolton, and Police Officers were despatched to locate her, which they did soon afterwards.

At 18.10hrs all deployed Bolton MRT, Police and GMFRS resources were stood down.

During the search for this woman considerable use, as is common nowadays, was made of social media, to try and locate the whereabouts of this woman.

The following resources were deployed to this search operation;

  • GMP; Considerable Divisional resources including patrol Officers, PCSO’s and CID, one Tactical Aid Unit and a Police Missing Person Search Manager.
  • GMFRS; Drone Unit, including vehicle and two pilot / operatives, and a GMFRS Station Manager Officer.
  • Bolton Mountain Rescue Team; Twenty team operational members present on scene and a further four stood down responding, four Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances, our Ford Transit Minibus / Crewbus and our Incident Control Vehicle.
  • SARDA Ireland North; One DVSD Search Dog Team, Handler Dave Marsh of Bolton MRT (included in above personnel figures) with DVSD Search Dog Sasha.
  • SARDA Wales; One Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Team, Handler Steve Nelson, Navigator Elaine Gilliland, both of Bolton MRT (included in above personnel figures) with Trailing Search Dog Boris.

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Aug 13 2015

Incident 62/2015 – Team assists in a missing person enquiry for Greater Manchester Police

GMP this evening were contacted regarding a missing 50 year old man from the Heaton area of Bolton, in circumstances giving concern for his welfare.

At 23.25hrs very late this evening – and with many members having gone to bed early to catch up on their lost sleep from this morning’s early hours call out, the team was paged to provide possible assistance to GMP in the search for the missing man.

The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, who was informed Police patrols had already checked out car parks in the Queens Park, Bolton and Moses Gate Country Park, Farnworth areas.

Garry liaised and advised with Officers involved in this missing from home enquiry, whilst team members remained on standby to assist.

It was decided that the team could be stood down until the missing man’s car could be located, and this was paged to the team at 00.25hrs in the very early hours of Friday 14th August.

By this stage team call out contacts Steve Fletcher and Mike Marsh, alongside our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh and Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE had all consulted together regards possible actions.

With most of the team returning to their beds and sleep, team members John Dickinson and Michael Eddleston in our GMFRS Bolton North Community Fire Station garaged Land Rover, assisted the Police enquiry by further checking car parks in the Rivington and Belmont areas in a continuing effort to locate the missing man’s silver coloured Renault Meganne Scenic car.

In touch with our Team Leader, who in turn was in touch with GMP, their search ended at 02.25hrs, Friday 14th August, with the missing man’s car not being located.

During the team’s early contact with GMP regarding this incident, the possible assistance of Cheshire SART was also established via contact with their Team Leader Simon Lane, should additional resources be required, given the early suggestion of a search in the Moses Gate area.

In total six Bolton MRT members were directly involved in dealing with this incident, alongside Cheshire SART Team Leader Simon Lane.

GMP enquiries continued in to Friday 14th August, with our Team Leader further consulting with a GMP Missing from Home Search Manager the afternoon of Friday 14th August.

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Jun 14 2015

Incident 49/2015 – Teenager injured cycling at Longsight Park, Bolton

This afternoon at 14.21hrs the team was contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) Parkway EOC via pager, to respond to an incident at Longsight Park, Bolton.

harwoodA 14 year old male, whilst cycling with a friend had fallen from his bike, sustaining suspected cervical injuries.

Two team vehicles were despatched immediately from the Prestwich Challenge Sunday Event we were providing standby rescue cover for (Leaving other team members to maintain and provide the cover for this event)

With eight team operational members on board, both Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances, arrived at the RVP, at 15.09hrs.

Here they met with responding NWAS emergency personnel who were already treating the teenager for his injuries.

The boys companion had firstly called his mother, following the accident, who in turn contacted the Ambulance Service.

Following on scene treatment by NWAS, at 15.34hrs the teenager had been placed on a long board, which was in turn placed on to our SAR Alpine Lite Mountain Rescue Stretcher, and the boy was evacuated back to the NWAS Ambulance by 15.45hrs.

He was subsequently taken to hospital for further treatment.

The following resources were involved in this incident;

  • NWAS (Greater Manchester Area); Parkway EOC, Rapid Response Vehicle – solo crew member, from Bolton Ambulance Station, and an Emergency Ambulance – two crew, from Bolton Ambulance Station.
  • GMP; Force Duty Officer.
  • Bolton Mountain Rescue Team; Two team Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances, radio call signs Bolton Mobile 2 and 4, eight team operational members directly involved on scene, two further team members involved in co-ordinating this emergency response.

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