by admin | Jul 5, 2009 | 2009, Incident
With the prior knowledge of NWAS (Manchester) knowing that the team was at its Ladybridge Hall base, our team leader was contacted by ambulance control at 13:38 requesting the teams assistance at a residential address in the Kearsley area of Bolton. NWAS (Manchester)...
by admin | Jul 5, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 04:10 hours this morning the team received a pager call from the Team Leader, Andy Simpson, of Rossendale & Pendle MRT, one of our neighbouring mountain rescue teams, who in turn had been called out to cover a search incident in Bowland Pennine MRTs area. Our...
by admin | Jul 2, 2009 | General news
This evening the team welcomed 8 Scouts and 3 leaders from the Gryphon Explorer Scouts of Leigh. Met by 3 of our full team callout members, the scouts were given an overview on the work of the team and the varied equipment used and carried on our Landrover ambulances,...
by admin | Jul 1, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 20:35 this evening with the prior knowledge that the team was available at its base (for our SGM) NWAS (Lancashire) contacted our Team Leader Garry Rhodes with details of a mountain bike accident which had been reported somewhere in the vicinity of Winter Hill...
by admin | Jul 1, 2009 | General news
Back in January the team came to the aid of Mrs Roma Clough, who had fallen causing a neck of femur injury. See Incident 12/2009 dated 18 January 2009, also article dated 14 February 2009. Next Wednesday morning 8 July, Mrs Clough is holding a coffee morning, for the...
by admin | Jul 1, 2009 | General news
This evening the team held a Special General Meeting for the posts of Treasurer and Catering and Base Officer, following the recent departure from the team of Joanne Stones and Sue Purtill respectively. 29x call out list members, 2x reserve call out list members, and...
by admin | Jul 1, 2009 | General news
Our Support Group have reported that the monthly Collecting Box total for June was £155.34. This compares with £271.54 for June last year. Our year to date figure from our 157 Collecting Boxes out and about, is an amazing £1,747.20 (compared to...
by admin | Jun 30, 2009 | General news
At 18:29 this evening the team received a request from North West Ambulance Service (Greater Manchester) to assist with the unusually high number of 999 calls the service was receiving. The team mobilised 3 of our 4 Landrover Ambulances to deal with the NWAS calls,...
by admin | Jun 30, 2009 | Donations, General news
Past readers of our website will recall Derek Thomas (and his wife Lisa) being incredibly supportive friends of the Bolton MRT. Derek and Lisa were also very commited and hard working members of our Support Group in the past and although both left the team for...
by admin | Jun 30, 2009 | Donations, General news
Today we were pleased to receive a kind donation of £60 from the Bolton South District Scouts 8th Weekend Activity Challenge 2009 event, more commonly known to us as the “Pike View Hike”. This follows our involvement and general help with the event...
