by admin | Aug 26, 2013 | General news
We learnt today of the theft of yet another of our collection boxes, this time from the premises of one of our newly-joined Support Group members, Gary Melia, who owns The Barber Shop in the centre of Radcliffe. Gary tells us that the box was almost due for emptying,...
by admin | Aug 25, 2013 | General news
Today the Manchester Road Inn at Astley (M29 7EJ) held a Beer festival, with all charity proceeds kindly in aid of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. The Manchester Road Inn is jointly owned by team members Ashley Kelshaw and Paul Chisholm (and trainee SARDA search dog...
by admin | Aug 25, 2013 | General news
Demonstrating the excellent links and relationships we have with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, the Bolton MRT was present today to display some of our vehicles and specialist search and rescue equipment at the GMFRS Broughton Community Fire Station Open...
by admin | Aug 24, 2013 | General news
Following previous training (Provided in-house and externally, including kindly by GMFRS) and to consolidate the previous Wednesday evening specific training events, early this morning five experienced team members met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to journey south...
by admin | Aug 24, 2013 | 2013, Incident
During our swift water rescue training on the River Dee at Llangollen today, the water rescue team was contacted at 16:15 by one of the raft photographers working on the river, to alert them of a water-related incident which had occurred downstream. An inflatable raft...
by admin | Aug 23, 2013 | General news
This afternoon our friend Paul Chamberlain, Team Leader of Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue Team, visited us at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to share and discuss water search and rescue training with Bolton MRT team member John Fletcher, who is co-ordinating and...
by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | General news
This evening the Bolton MRT attended the regular (Circa 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 now for a very long...
by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | General news
Further to the very kind donation yesterday evening (Wednesday 21st August 2013) of an AED to the team by Tracey Wilkinson, Fundraising Manager of Bolton ICD Support Group, this evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following very kind email from...
by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | General news
This afternoon, between 14.00 and 15.00hrs, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE met with GMFRS Watch Commander Chris Rainford of GMFRS Operations Support (Fire Service HQ) at GMFRS Bolton Central Community Fire Station. The meeting was very productive and clearly opened...
by admin | Aug 21, 2013 | Donations, General news
All photos in this report by Eden Photography On Wednesday 15th April 2009, David McNally, First Responder Manager for NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) at the time, visited the team to officially hand over four Cardiac Science FirstSave AED G3 defibrillators (AED =...
