by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | General news
We are very pleased to announce the receipt today of a kind and generous £50.00 donation from a great local supporter of mountain rescue including the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, who wishes to remain anonymous. We continue to be grateful to this kind person for such...
by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Whilst present at the fourth annual (Greater Manchester) Emergency Services Open Day event today, at the intu Trafford Centre, Manchester, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by a GMP Missing Person Search Manager at 12.02hrs, to place the team on...
by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | General news
This morning at 09.00hrs team members assembled at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to journey on to the intu Trafford Centre, Manchester, where we joined GMP, GMFRS, NWAS (Manchester) and a huge number of other voluntary emergency and voluntary aid groups at this years...
by admin | Aug 6, 2014 | Training
This evening our routine weekly training exercise took place within the hillside Terraced Gardens at Rivington, also known as the Bungalow Grounds, and locally as the ‘Chinese Gardens.’ (Though rather confusingly there has never been a Chinese Garden / Gardens, though...
by admin | Aug 6, 2014 | General news
Tomorrow from 10.00am until 5.00pm, the team will be joining GMP, GMFRS, NWAS (Manchester) and a huge number of other voluntary emergency and voluntary aid groups at this years (Greater Manchester) Emergency Services Open Day event at the intu Trafford Centre. The...
by admin | Aug 6, 2014 | Donations
Today we are very pleased to announce a wonderfully kind donation of £100.00 from our long standing friend and supporter David Bisset and his family. Way back in August 2005, Iain Bisset whilst climbing with his father and fellow climber David Bisset, at Ousel’s Nest...
by admin | Aug 5, 2014 | Training
The following is an account of some recent training undertaken from Thursday 31st July to Sunday 3rd August 2014 by our Drowned Victim Search Dog Trainee Handler Dave Marsh and Trainee DVSD Search Dog Sasha in Northern Ireland; Over the course of a long weekend, our...
by admin | Aug 4, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 17.02hrs this sunny and warm early evening, we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton / Air Desk despatcher for our immediate help with the report of an injured male with a leg fracture in the vicinity of the moorland landmark of Rivington Pike. The call was...
by admin | Aug 4, 2014 | General news
At 04.04hrs this morning, we were paged by Greater Manchester Police to lend the teams assistance to a developing search for a missing 84 years old man in the vicinity of Ladybridge Estate, Bolton, with an RVP given on Armadale Road. The call was answered by our Team...
by admin | Aug 4, 2014 | General news
The whole team membership extends its best wishes for the future to our two young Medical Doctors Mark Jeffrey & Richard Moss who have both left the team to take up new appointments elsewhere in the UK. Mark, aged 25 and Richard, 30, joined the team together on...
