by admin | May 9, 2014 | Training
Yesterday evening, Thursday 8th May, our Trainee Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Search Dog Handler Paul Chisholm and Bella, were up on the moors above Horwich at Wilderswood, conducting their usual Thursday weekly night time training. Paul was helped by Bolton MRT...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | General news
This evening saw the Annual General Meeting, Election of Officers and Business Meeting of the Mid Pennine Search and Rescue Organisation, our regional mountain rescue organisation. Attended by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and colleague Bolton MRT team member...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | General news
This coming Saturday will see the team membership committed to four events on the same day; Our fourteen strong Support Group membership will be holding an all day Team Collection Day at ASDA, Manchester Road, Burnden Park, Bolton, from 10.00hrs until 18.00hrs. Our...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Not previously reported within our website, was the attendance of our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson (A member of SARDA Wales) and trailing Search Dog Boris at the Bark 4 Life event held recently on Saturday 3rd May at Moor Park, Preston,...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | Donations
We are pleased to announce today the receipt of a very kind donation of £150.00 from Greater Manchester Police, as thanks for our involvement in the search for a missing man in the Worley area on Monday 31st March and Tuesday 1st April this year (which sadly had a...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | Training
This morning saw our Trainee DVSD (Drowned Victim Search Dog) Handler Dave Marsh and his Trainee DVSD Search Dog Sasha, take to the water of Pennington Flash, Leigh, in our 3.5m semi rigid inflatable SAR Boat, to undertake more intense training in the final stages...
by admin | May 7, 2014 | Training
Wednesday 7th May 2014. . Assembling at the Lever Park, Rivington, exercise venue this evening, in the vicinity of Rivington Hall Barn, the twenty Team Call Out list members attending tonight’s weekly evening exercise were presented by our Training Officer Neil...
by admin | May 7, 2014 | Donations
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received in the post a very kind donation of £50.00 to the team from valued supporter Mr Keith J. Young. Readers may recall that following a visit late last year to Campcraft, Newport Street, Bolton, regular customer Keith Young...
by admin | May 6, 2014 | General news
Tuesday 6th May 2014. . This evening commencing at 19.00hrs we hosted a visit by four members of Rossendale and Pendle MRT to view our Incident Control Vehicle, which is garaged at GMFRS Bolton Central Fire Station. The four RPMRT members including Team Leader, Peter...
by admin | May 6, 2014 | Donations
We are very pleased to announce our April month end 2014 collection box figures, with £273.41p collected, against £168.19p for April 2013. Our year to date Collection Box total is £851.84p compared to £792.90 for this time last year. We currently have 122x collection...
