by admin | Oct 10, 2008 | General news
This evening after receiving it on Thursday 9th October, the Hummer H3 Mountain Rescue vehicle on loan to the team received its first operational callout with the team on a search operation in the Swinton area (see incident 102/2008). The vehicle drew much interest...
by admin | Oct 10, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 20:24 this evening our Team Leader was contacted by GMP requesting the team’s assistance in a search operation for a missing 75 year old Swinton woman. The woman had been reported missing by her husband from her home address on the afternoon of today, prompting a...
by admin | Oct 10, 2008 | General news
Readers of this news section will know that the team are equipped with Entonox® pain-killing gas (sometimes called “gas and air”) and that we use it very frequently. Well, sometimes things break when in such frequent use, and so it was with the valve...
by admin | Oct 9, 2008 | General news
Well it arrived tonight on a multi week loan from General Motors to our team, one Hummer H3 vehicle fully liveried up for Mountain Rescue use. In this the 75th Anniversary year of Mountain Rescue in the United Kingdom, Hummer partnered up with Mountain Rescue England...
by admin | Oct 9, 2008 | General news
This evening we received the excellent news from Craig Knights, the current Chairman of Bolton and District Round Table, that he had announced us as the beneficiary of the fund raising work of the Bolton and District Round Table, under the Chairmans nominated charity...
