by admin | Feb 15, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 21.37hrs this wet and cold evening, with the majority of the team membership on our routine Wednesday night exercise, deployed throughout the moorland valley of Cadshaw Brook, the team was paged by a GMP Missing Person Search Manager to assist with a developing...
by admin | Feb 12, 2012 | General news
Today the team provided its usual standby rescue cover provision for the gruelling Winter Hill Fell Race, organised excellently as ever by Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletic Club. Now in its 30th year (the team has attended every event), the course takes in an 11 mile...
by admin | Feb 12, 2012 | General news
Very experienced Bolton MRT member Dave Marsh has just returned back to Bolton after spending a long weekend down in Kent as a guest assessor for NSARDA Cantech [Kent] search dogs who were conducting an assessment weekend. Dave, who is currently the Secretary for the...
by admin | Feb 9, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At circa 17:36 one of our crews at Royal Bolton Hospital (at the conclusion of incident 19/2012) were informed by a GMP Police Officer of a report of an incident which would likely require the team, as it involved an injured hill walker upon the local moors, and to...
by admin | Feb 9, 2012 | General news
This afternoon our Honorary Life Vice President Tony McNally and Paul Copley visited Year 5 of RL Hughes Primary School in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan. Paul’s report on the visit is reproduced below: “Today on this very wet and cold afternoon, our Honorary...
