Training Exercise with Bolton CHA members

Training Exercise with Bolton CHA members

We exercise every Wednesday evening, usually outdoors and in whatever conditions the weather wants to throw at us. To add a degree of realism to our training, we rely on exercise casualties, unfamiliar to the team membership to act out the role of the lost and / or...
Training Exercise with Bolton CHA members

Birthday Congratulations

Happy Birthday today to team member Mike Marsh, who joined us way back in June 1986, and today celebrated the BIG 40. As you were celebrating with your family tonight Mike and missed the exercise, ( we’ll let you off for that one exercise ) we are all wondering...
Training Exercise with Bolton CHA members

Incident 94/2005

At 16:24 Hrs today Greater Manchester Police, paged the Team for immediate assistance with a search for a missing 60 year old male, in the Bow Green, Bowdon area of South Manchester. A Full Team call out took place at 16.54 Hrs, also requesting our kayak search team,...
Training Exercise with Bolton CHA members

Hot Air balloon assistance

The recent spell of clear blue skies and icy conditions seems to have resulted in a number of hot air balloon flights over our team moorland area (and a spectacular sight against the backdrop of some of our sunsets it makes as well). During our new member’s day...
Training Exercise with Bolton CHA members

New member’s day

As a follow on to the Tuesday evening event (see #article#1008#link#) we were expecting 5 persons to attend today all with an interest in joining the team. Maybe it was the freezing cold weather or very wet and boggy ground conditions (part frozen), but only four...