Feb 16 2014
Incident 23/2014
During the response to Incident 22, we received a pager message at 11.02hrs alerting us to an incident near to Yarrow Reservoir “in Horwich,” involving an injured male horse rider.
Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE Controlling and Co-ordinating the response to Incident 22 (See below report) was already in contact with NWAS Greater Manchester Control, who suggested the call was from NWAS (Lancashire) Control, which Garry then contacted.
Meanwhile a Team Land Rover with three crew on board, on hold at our GMFRS Bolton North Fire Station garage in case of additional resources being needed at Incident 22, was immediately redirected to start heading towards the Yarrow Reservoir area.
As this area borders the primary operational area of our colleagues at Bowland Pennine MRT, our Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon was in turn liaising with Garry to determine if the call was actually in BPMRTs area, and as such was going to contact BPMRT to respond, once Garry established the actual incident location, Geoff meanwhile also redirected to this incident.
NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC Airdesk, detailed the incident to Garry, stating that the incident no longer required MRT assistance, and although the NWAA Helimed 75 had landed nearby the injured male horse rider had walked to the responding Emergency Ambulance parked at Alance Bridge at Yarrow Reservoir.
Here Team Call Out list member Paul Copley who had been walking nearby turned up and assisted with traffic duties at this narrow moorland valley road, where the Ambulance was parked up.
Via our radio system a full stand down was communicated at 11.10hrs, backed up by a confirming pager stand down at 11.17hrs.
The following resources were involved in this incident;
- NWAS (Lancashire); EOC Broughton Airdesk, Emergency Ambulance and two crew from Chorley Ambulance Station.
- NWAA; Helimed 75 from City Airport Manchester (Barton)
- Bolton Mountain Rescue Team; One Team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance with three crew on board stood down responding, our Deputy Team Leader and one other team member (Neil Aspinall) stood down responding, Team member Paul Copley on scene at the incident conclusion.
Aug 24 2014
Incident 78/2014 – assisting Bowland Pennine MRT at Wrightington
At 15:42 this afternoon the team was paged by the North West Ambulance Service (Air Desk) at Broughton, who were requesting our assistance at an incident involving an injured horse rider.
The call was answered by Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh who soon determined that the incident, in the vicinity of Charity Farm, Wrightington, lay within the primary operational area of our colleagues at Bowland Pennine MRT.
In consultation with the BPMRT Team Leader Kev Camplin, Chris and Kev determined that a joint Bowland MRT and limited Bolton MRT response would be made to this incident, in the knowledge that a number of Bolton MRT team vehicles were immediately crewed and available (present at community events today), along with other Bolton MRT team members at our Ladybridge Hall and Bolton Central Fire Station bases.
The incident concerned a female aged 20 who had apparently been thrown from her horse whilst riding, some distance away from the road and in a location where it was not possible for a road-going ambulance to reach. With concern for possible neck and back injuries sustained, responding NWAS crews requested Mountain Rescue assistance to carry the casualty across fields.
With the first responding Bolton MRT arriving on scene at 16:18, along with resources from Bowland Pennine MRT, the casualty was loaded onto a SAR Alpine Lite MR stretcher and was carried a short distance (approx. 280m) across the fields to the waiting NWAS Ambulance, resulting in the swift conclusion to the incident at 17:00.
We understand the following resources were involved in this incident
By Steven Fletcher • 2014, Incident • Tags: Appley Bridge, HorseRiding