Team Leader Garry Rhodes received a phone call from Lancashire Ambulance Service, regarding an incident at the Blue Lagoon, Belmont. At the same time as this phone call, Bolton Mobile 3 was flagged down by a member of the public near to the Blue Lagoon.
Both the member of the public and the LAS phone call was for the same job. A woman out walking with her husband, on a relatively flat moorland path had climbed up a banking to avoid some deep mud and fallen sustaining a query fractured left ankle and right wrist, all from a height of approx 2 foot.
Together with LAS ambulance from Darwen & Helimed 08 Air Ambulance, 4 Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulances converged on the Blue Lagoon at Belmont.
The casualty was very cold due to the driving wind and rain and was treated jointly by BMRT members, Helimed Paramedic and LAS ambulance crew. Then carried to the waiting land ambulance on our Bell MR stretcher after declining a trip in Helimed 08 and transported on to hospital in the LAS vehicle.
Our next job was to clear the area so that Helimed 08 could take off safely from its landing zone – and that was an entertaining flight, judging by the winds battering the aircraft.

The various resources required for such a small fall.

Weather onditions got worse as the incident went on.