by admin | Oct 5, 2014 | General news
This afternoon saw team member and Trainee Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Search Dog Handler Jess Ellsmore return with her Trainee Dog Blitz, from this months SARDA England training exercise, held within the Oldham MRTs operational area.
by admin | Oct 4, 2014 | General news, Safety Cover
Today for the sixth year running, the team provided standby rescue cover for this years Rivington Trail Half Marathon event. Organised by 2:09 Events, the race enjoyed its sixth year in Rivington, with the route starting at Rivington & Blackrod School, and heading...
by admin | Oct 4, 2014 | General news
Today saw the marriage of team Call Out list member Paul Ephraim Brain to Maggie Louise Hall Allred, at a service attended by team colleagues alongside a very large number of friends, work associates and their delighted family members. With a great many guests...
by admin | Oct 3, 2014 | General news
Followers of our website will know that former and very successful Bolton MRT Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Dog Handler, who operated for many years with Chi, started training a few years back now with Sasha, to become a Mountain Rescue Drowned Victim Search Dog...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | General news, Training
Our weekly Wednesday evening session on 1st October 2014, saw team members assembling at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ for an earlier than usual 19.00hrs start, for all attending to take their Annual CPR and BLS test, including the use of our team AED’s. Our in...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | General news
With the opening of our team once more to operational membership recruitment, as a result of our having a limited number of current vacancies, we published a website ‘News’ item on Tuesday 9th September 2014. We can report that to date we have now received eleven...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | General news, Training
Today early this morning at 07.00hrs, Team Call Out List members, David Crawford and David Cook (Our Equipment Officer – Water) journeyed in our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle ‘Bolton Mobile 3’ to Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service’s HQ and Training School...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | General news
A full report on Incident 84/2014 has now been published on our website, dated Sunday 28th September 2014. Quite often at a later date we often add photographs to many of our reports, including Incident reports, so it is always worth going back every now and again,...
by admin | Oct 1, 2014 | Donations, General news
On the evening of Sunday 7th September 2014, three of our team operational members, Equipment Officer – Base / HQ Paul Copley, Treasurer Martin Banks and very long serving Gillian Leigh, were guests of Bolton Lads and Girls Club Graduation Evening at the Platinum...
by admin | Sep 30, 2014 | General news
This evening the Bolton MRT attended the regular (Circa two to three times a year) Lancashire Constabulary Search and Rescue meeting, commencing at 18.30hrs at Lancashire Constabulary Force Headquarters, Strategic Command Centre, Hutton, Preston. Held for a very long...
