42. Callout – Sunday 23rd May 2010
- Type – Assist ambulance service.
- Location – ’White Nancy’, Bollington
- Time – 16.00 hrs (approx)
- Team members – 20
- Duration – 1.5 hours
- Man hours – 30 hrs
After completing our training exercise, members were on their way home when the call came through to RV at a known location in Bollington. The team rapidly redeployed to assist the ambulance service at a local tourist location – ‘White Nancy’, Bollington.
An elderly gentleman had fallen and sustained injuries to both legs. One leg had a suspected fracture of the mid shaft femur, the other cuts and grazes. The casualty was immobilised and evacuated by mountain rescue stretcher to a waiting ambulance.
Phil Ridley – Team Training Officer
