by admin | Mar 2, 2013 | General news
At 18:52 this evening our Team Leader was contacted directly by GMP regarding a request, initially, for our specialist Trailing Search Dog in regards to a 90 year old male missing from Royal Bolton Hospital. Liaison then took place between our Team Leader, Garry...
by admin | Feb 27, 2013 | General news
At 15:29 today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes was contacted directly by Lancashire Constabulary regarding a large moorland fire in the vicinity of Darwen Tower on Darwen Moor. Garry, who was on holiday at the time in Vietnam (7 hours ahead of GMT) advised the police to...
by admin | Feb 27, 2013 | 2013, Incident
In a continuation of our incident 38 and 39/2013, the team once again journeyed to Burscough to resume our search for Karen Simpson. Bolton MRT and Bowland Pennine MRT team members commenced searching shortly after their arrival. At around 10:30 this morning the team...
by admin | Feb 26, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At circa 11:10 Phil O’Brien, the Team Leader of Bowland Pennine MRT, contacted our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon to request the team’s assistance with the second day of a mountain rescue search operation in a search for a missing person in the Burscough area. Karen...
by admin | Feb 26, 2013 | General news
Further to our recent article regarding the progress of the ’production’ of our new Incident Control Vehicle (see website news report of 29th January 2013 & 5th February) On Tuesday 25th February, two members from our Incident Control Vehicle project...