by admin | Jun 28, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At the conclusion of our watching over the Belmont Primary School Sponsored Walk, at 15.55hrs our Team Leader was contacted direct by NWAS (Lancashire) regarding the teams assistance with the report of a collapsed male, in the vicinity of ’Liverpool Castle’ in Lever...
by admin | Jun 28, 2009 | General news
Today Belmont Primary School completed a sponsored walk to benefit Bolton Mountain Rescue team. The walk started from Belmont School, taking the Wrights Arms track to Winter Hill Summit, dropping down to Coal Pit Road, across to Horrocks Fold, then down to Longworth...
by admin | Jun 27, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 21.32hrs this evening the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control regards an incident in the Rivington Pike area. Answered by our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes MBE, he established that NWAS had a report of a young female giving cause for concern in the...
by admin | Jun 27, 2009 | General news
Today the team attended the GMFRS Farnworth Fire Station Open Day, which this year was in aid of the Fire Fighters Charity and for Bolton Firefighter Steve Morris, who was badly injured in a fire in June 2008. In total 13 full team members attended with 3 of our...
by admin | Jun 26, 2009 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind letter from Venessa Wilkinson, the mother of Alastair, the 9 month old child involved in the scalding incident to which we responded during Horwich Carnival Races, on Sunday 21st June 2009. Vanessa enclosed with her letter a very kind...
by admin | Jun 25, 2009 | Donations, General news
Following the absolutely fantastic 29th April 2009 £1,500.00 donation to the team at the 13th Ladies Spring Luncheon of the Bolton Ladies’ Fund Raising Group, we received today a totally unexpected letter from Mrs Irene Roocroft, Chairman of the Bolton...
by admin | Jun 25, 2009 | General news
This evening 14x team members in our four Land Rover Mountain Rescue vehicles provided standby rescue cover for the annual Aggies Staircase Fell Race, organised by Darwen Dashers Running Club, and taking in a route over Darwen Moor, including the very steep path known...
by admin | Jun 24, 2009 | General news
Following an appropriate getting to know each other period over the last few weeks, we are pleased to announce that we have invited three probationers to join the team as Trainee Team members. All three will now join in with the full activities of the team, including...
by admin | Jun 24, 2009 | General news
Welcome back to the team after a career and family break of 15 years to Gillian Leigh, aged 41, a teacher from Horwich. Gill was a team call out list member from 1985 through to 1994, during which team she became a very experienced team member as well as an...
by admin | Jun 24, 2009 | General news
This evening our two Team Doctors, Doctor Clare Whitney and Doctor Sarah Drake, journeyed to the Clegg Street, Haslingden HQ/Base of Rossendale and Pendle MRT to join their team Doctor, Doctor Bob Stokes, to examine RPMRT members at the conclusion of their Mountain...
