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Bolton Mountain Rescue Team - Saving lives in wild and remote places Visitor Number: 1198846
Since 31st October 2001
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Last updated: 15th May
34 incidents so far in 2012.
74 incidents attended in 2011
(2007 was our busiest year since
formation with 206 incidents)

Latest incident(s):
Tuesday 15th May

At 21:06 this evening the team was paged by NWAS Manchester Emergency Control Centre who were requesting our help on an incident. The pager call was answered by Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon (closely followed by our Team Leader) who in turn mobilised the team to a rendezvous point at Woodland Cemetery, off New City Road, Ellen Brook, near to Mosley Common, Worsley at 21:11. A 13 year old male in the company of his friend had earlier been playing in the vicinity of a steep sided stream which runs through open land adjacent to the the cemetery, and had fallen awkwardly on his ankle resulting ..... (click here for complete story)
 

The MPSRO's busiest team
Founded in 1968 and now celebrating 43 years of voluntary search and rescue service.

(Registered charity 517454)
Please note the team has no current Call Out list membership vacancies and is not recruiting at present.
Recruitment is still open to our Support Group.

Please note due to training commitments we are not able to arrange lecture visits involving the team membership during Wednesday evenings. (Existing arrangements will all be honoured)


New Team Vehicles, marking a new era in the team
Came into service on the 20th April 2011


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