by admin | Feb 10, 2015 | General news
This morning our Training Officer Alistair Greenough, and Medical Equipment Officer Nigel Booth (with his rope rescue ‘head’ on) journeyed in our Land Rover ‘Bolton Mobile 3’ to Lyon Work and Rescue at Old Tebay, Cumbria. Nigel, who is a full time Watch Manager with...
by admin | Feb 9, 2015 | Training
This dark and damp mid winter evening, saw our trainee mountain rescue air scenting dog handler Jess Ellsmore and her trainee air scenting search dog Blitz, training at Wilderswood, on the fringes of the moors high above Horwich. Jess was joined by colleague Bolton...
by admin | Feb 8, 2015 | General news
This morning a small work party was present at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ working on a new ‘strapping’ system to secure our mountain rescue stretchers which are carried on the roof racks of each of our four Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles....
by admin | Feb 8, 2015 | Donations
Further to our ‘News’ report of Wednesday 4th February 2015, when Richard Cage of the Ramblers Association Halton Group thanked us for our involvement in an incident involving their colleague Fred Miley, who sadly fatally collapsed on Spitlers Edge on Sunday 11th...
by admin | Feb 8, 2015 | Training
This weekend has seen our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson, with his usual navigator Elaine Gilliland and Trailing Search Dog Boris, on this month’s scheduled SARDA Wales training exercise weekend in a very wintry Snowdonia, North Wales....
