by admin | Feb 8, 2015 | Donations
We are pleased to announce the receipt of a very kind £40.00 donation from Mrs Janice Sheaffer, a friend of team member Ken Oakes’ wife Barbara. The entire team membership extends its thanks to Janice of Bolton for this thoughtful latest donation. Please also...
by admin | Feb 7, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Today Dave Marsh our DVSD Search Dog Handler, along with his Drowned Victims Search Dog Sasha, journeyed to Northern Ireland, to undertake a specialist search tasking. Dave will be deployed today and Sunday 8th February, returning the early hours of Monday 9th...
by admin | Feb 7, 2015 | Training
Early this morning some team members met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to journey in our Bolton Mobile 3 Land Rover, to Lead Mines Valley, Anglezarke, to undertake some moorland navigation practice. The training took place in Lead Mines Valley and Limestone Clough,...
by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | General news
This evening, commencing at 20.00hrs, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, attended the routine quarterly evening meeting of the Mid Pennine Search and Rescue Organisation – MPSRO, our regional mountain rescue body. Amongst those in attendance this evening were Gillian...
by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our January 2015 month end collection box figures, with £119.43 collected, against £256.22 for January 2014. We currently have 115x collection boxes out and about in the team’s operational area and with a small number of individual...
by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Training
Tonight 29 team members travelled to the Batridge Road car park at Turton & Entwistle Reservoir, Bolton, for the team’s regular Wednesday night training exercise On this very cold evening we were also joined by two volunteer exercise casualties with the...
by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | General news
Last Wednesday, 28th January, we reported within the ‘News’ section of our website on the awareness training visit to Bristow / HM Coastguard Humberside, to view and train with the new Sikorsky S92A aircraft to be based there, taking over the current military and HMCG...
by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | General news
This evening, sees the culmination of many weeks – indeed three months of training, with our six remaining ‘Probationary’ members from our Late October 2014 recruitment intake, progressing to ‘Trainee Team Membership’ of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Their probationary...
by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | General news
On Sunday 11th January 2015, the team was involved in a sad incident when Fred Miley, a member of Halton Ramblers, fatally collapsed whilst on a hill walk on Spitlers Edge (Please see website ‘News’ report, Incident 20 dated the same) Along with NWAS, NWAA and...
by admin | Feb 3, 2015 | 2015, Incident
This very cold afternoon, at 15.00hrs a GMP Missing Person Search Manager directly contacted our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes MBE, requesting the teams immediate attendance with a developing Police search for a missing 90 year old man. The man had gone missing earlier...
