by admin | Jan 7, 2013 | General news
It’s only seven days into the New Year and with eleven incidents attended, we have already contributed an amazing 204 person hours (8.5 person days) on operational incidents on 2013 so far. (Please also see a similar themed report we made just before the end of...
by admin | Jan 7, 2013 | General news
Our valued friend and supporter, Gary Melia, of The Barber Shop, Radcliffe, has once more made a very generous personal donation of £100.00 to Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Team President, Bob Hutchinson, visited Gary recently to empty the Bolton MRT collecting...
by admin | Jan 6, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At the conclusion of the below exercise, with the majority of team members who had taken part involved back at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ or en route back, the team was paged at 15.38hrs by Greater Manchester Police to render assistance in the developing search for...
by admin | Jan 6, 2013 | General news
Sunday 6th January 2012. Arriving at the base of the prominent steep sided moorland landmark of Rivington Pike, and its associated hill top Pike Tower this afternoon, team members who had travelled along the moorland track of Georges Lane in all four of our team Land...
by admin | Jan 6, 2013 | Donations, General news
On Thursday 17th September 2009, after twenty five years of operation, with regret we publicly announced on our website that the team (after much deliberation) had decided to cease the operation of its 250 Club monthly fundraising draw, with effect from October 2009....
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | 2013, Incident
As part of a current on going search operation by GMP (As this report is written) to locate Michael Simpson, aged 22, who went missing after a New Years Eve party on Stockport Road West, Bredbury, this morning our specialist Trail Search Dog Boris and his handler,...
by admin | Jan 2, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 10.04hrs this very wet new year morning, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary regarding a request for our specialist search assistance utilising our water borne assets for a search operation in the Preston Docklands area, in regards to a missing person...
by admin | Jan 2, 2013 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind £75.00 festive donation from Mrs Pamela Potts of Little Lever, Bolton. Pamela is a Sports Therapist, and each year instead of sending out Christmas Cards to her patients, she makes a donation to a local charity. In a card...
by admin | Jan 1, 2013 | General news
At 11.27hrs this New Years Day morning, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Operations Centre for the teams assistance with the report of a male casualty who had fallen in fields near to City Airport Manchester...
by admin | Jan 1, 2013 | General news
In the early hours of this New Years Day morning whilst providing assistance to NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) the team responded to eight incidents, the first at 00.32hrs and the last at 03.39hrs, with four casualties conveyed to hospital by Bolton MRT vehicles. This...
