by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | General news
This morning team members Steve Nelson and Elaine Gilliland set off for the journey north to the Cairngorms to attend this years Mountain Rescue Conference. Being held over this weekend, The Mountain Rescue Gathering 2014 is the United Kingdom and Irish Mountain...
by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | General news
Our Team has received the following communication from our National (MREW) ICT Officer Mark Lewis; “Alan Prescott of Keswick MRT has requested we circulate details of this App to ensure that teams are aware of this new App being launched in the UK Whilst MREW don’t...
by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | Training
Dave Marsh our Trainee Drowned Victim Search Dog Handler and Trainee DVSD Dog Sasha, once again spent this morning and into lunchtime carrying out some DVSD training on the waters of Pennington Flash at Leigh, utilising our 3.4 metre long semi rigid inflatable SAR...
by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | General news
We have previously reported that two other UK search & rescue organisations (in addition to ourselves) are all in the running for a local grant of up to £3,000 from the Lloyds Community Fund. Our colleagues at Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and Norfolk Lowland Search...
by admin | Sep 11, 2014 | General news
This evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE attended the Greater Manchester Emergency Services Liaison Group meeting. Usually held quarterly, the GMESLG serves to unite all the statutory emergency Services working in Greater Manchester with the mountain rescue teams...
