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Drunken man rescued at beauty spot
10:06am Monday 5th May 2008
MOUNTAIN Rescue Team members had to be called when a man got drunk and became ill in a nature reserve.
North-west Ambulance Service called in the Bolton team when they were unable to reach the man, who was more than half-a-mile inside Wigan Flashes Nature Reserve.
Team members arrived shortly after 11pm on Saturday and were guided to the man by a paramedic who met them at the reserve entrance.
They used a specialist rescue stretcher with heavyweight casualty bag, designed to keep the casualty warm, to carry the man back to the ambulance.
The patient was taken to Wigan Infirmary, where casualty staff were put on alert.
He was suffering from hypothermia.
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