by admin | May 18, 2010 | General news
Today team representatives met other colleagues from the emergency services and the Army, who are all jointly taking part in this years (Bolton) Help for Heroes event scheduled for Saturday 26th June 2010, and organised by Greater Manchester Police. Meeting at the...
by admin | May 17, 2010 | General news
This afternoon at the kind invitation of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, the team put on a vehicle and equipment display as part of a GMFRS Learning at Work event today. With events centred at W50 Bolton Central Fire Station, where we maintain two of our...
by admin | May 17, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11.35hrs this morning we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) for the teams assistance with a 60 year old collapsed male casualty in an off road location in the Whitefield area. With some members responding directly, our first team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance,...
by admin | May 17, 2010 | Donations, General news
This morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was put in contact with a Bolton gentleman who wished to support the team by making a donation. The gentleman explained that he followed the work of the team through articles in the local paper, the Bolton News, and wished...
by admin | May 16, 2010 | General news
As the team was concluding its involvement with the Horwich New Heart Pike Walk event this afternoon, team members at Lower House Car Park became aware of a family group who had become seperated from one of their children. Team members in the general area of the...
by admin | May 16, 2010 | General news
Every year the team supports the Horwich New Heart Pike event which is a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund. Walkers take a route which starts at Rivington Hall Barn, through the Terraced Gardens to the summit of Rivington Pike...
by admin | May 16, 2010 | General news
This morning Dave Healey, Radio Communications Officer, & Elaine Gilliland, Team Training Officer, jouryned to Lancashire Constabulary HQ at Hutton for a training session in the new Mapyx SARMAN software, which was also officially launched today. Together with 2...
by admin | May 15, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a one off donation of £420.35 from Mountain Rescue (England and Wales) as a share of the distribution of monies received by MREW for the additional work carried out by Mountain Rescue Teams during the very adverse weather conditions of...
by admin | May 15, 2010 | General news
At todays AGM and Business meeting of Mountain Rescue (England and Wales) held at Lancashire Constabulary Force Headquarters, Hutton, Peter Bell the President of Mountain Rescue (England and Wales) was honoured by the presentation of a 50 years Service to Mountain...
by admin | May 14, 2010 | General news
As reported below, at the opening of the team dinner, RSH, more popularly known within the team as Bob, received his certificate for 30 years long service to Mountain Rescue, awarded by the Mid-Pennine Search and Rescue Organisation. In the whole history of the team,...
