by admin | Oct 28, 2014 | General news, Training
This evening our trainee air scenting mountain rescue search dog handler Jess Ellsmore, and her trainee dog Blitz, joined BPMRT member and friend of our team, SARDA (England) Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Dog Handler Alison Nicholson and her Search Dog Floss, for some...
by admin | Oct 28, 2014 | 2014, Incident
A 999 call was received by the North West Ambulance Service this afternoon concerning the report of a young 12 year old boy from Darwen, reported to be unconscious on the moor, in the vicinity of Darwen Tower. At 14:39 the Bolton MRT was contacted by the Team Leader...
by admin | Oct 27, 2014 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This evening the team has accepted a kind invitation to attend a meeting of the Rotary Club of Radcliffe to give an insight in to the work of the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Experienced team member Chris Tennant represented the team at tonight’s meeting, as their...
by admin | Oct 26, 2014 | Donations
On Thursday 23rd October 2014, very long serving team member (since 1969 !) and immediate past Deputy Team Leader, Geoff Seddon, of Lever Park Avenue, Horwich, received in the post the following ; “Dear Mr Seddon, as promised I enclose a cheque to the value of...
by admin | Oct 26, 2014 | Training
With the opening of our team once more to operational membership recruitment, as a result of our having a limited number of current vacancies, we published a website ‘News’ item on Tuesday 9th September 2014. We subsequently received fourteen positive applications,...
