by admin | Feb 2, 2015 | General news
On Tuesday 31st March 2015, the Bolton MRT will be attending the ‘Emergency 999’ ‘Show and Tell’ event being held at LFRS Training Centre, Washington Hall, Euxton Lane, Chorley, Lancashire. This event which is not open to the public, is a multi agency ‘Show and Tell’...
by admin | Jan 31, 2015 | General news
Readers may recall that on Wednesday night, 28th January, we held an exercise centred upon the high moorland car park of Hordern Stoops, which due to thunder, snow and strong winds had to be abandoned part way through. With the terrible weather conditions prevailing...
by admin | Jan 29, 2015 | General news
On Thursday 22nd January 2015, we went to the aid of a 12 year old boy who had sustained a serious leg fracture, whilst snow sledging at Rivington (Please see Incident Report 23 – 2015, within our website ‘ news’ pages) Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, who was...
by admin | Jan 29, 2015 | General news
It is with great sadness, that we announce this evening the news that Jim Wareing, a former team member, recently passed away after a short illness, in his Mallorca home. Jim Wareing, aged 58 at the time, retired from the team in March 2005, leaving to take up...
by admin | Jan 29, 2015 | General news
This morning at 08.57hrs, the team was paged by NWAS (GM)Parkway EOC, requesting the teams availability status, with regards to the heavy snowfalls occurring in parts of Greater Manchester, and the likely impacts on the provision of NWAS’s normal activities. Our Team...