by admin | Oct 30, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Following a direct request from NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) to the team, a pager message was sent at 13:29 Hrs asking for appropriately trained team members for help with a peak demand situation arising with the North West Ambulance Service (GMA). 3 Team members...
by admin | Oct 30, 2008 | General news
Continuing the theme of the ’Mountain Rescue Hummer’ visiting various locations and organisations associated with Bolton MRT, team call-out members Andrew Livesey and Elaine Gilliland took the Mountain Rescue ’Hummer’ to NWAS Bolton North...
by admin | Oct 29, 2008 | General news
At 00:01 today, NWAS (Manchester) paged the team, requesting our assistance with the recovery of a Paramedic Ambulance which had become stuck on a “muddy field” in Ashton-in-Makerfield, whilst leaving the scene of an earlier 999 call. This call was first...
by admin | Oct 29, 2008 | General news
Today team member Andrew Livesey visited Police Stations on the Bury Division of Greater Manchester Police. He was kindly invited to meet with PCSOs and Police Officers at Whitefield Police Station to talk about Bolton Mountain Rescue Team and the activities of the...
by admin | Oct 26, 2008 | General news
Today two of our Full Team Callout members Fred Taylor (and partner Julie) and Ged Clarke attended an off road training day, organised by Hummer Extreme in conjunction with Bauer-Millet of Manchester. During the day Fred and Ged completed a 1 hour off road course on...
by admin | Oct 25, 2008 | General news
On Saturday Morning the team was invited to take the General Motors ’Hummer’ over to the Ambulance station at Royal Bolton Hospital to show it to the Ambulance crews and note their comments on this type of 4X4 being used by MR teams. Unfortunately the 2...
by admin | Oct 24, 2008 | General news
This evening our BM1 Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle and the ’Mountain Rescue Hummer’, (or BM5 as we refer to it within the team) along with Team Chairman Ken Oakes and fellow team call out list members Peter Heeley, Sue Purtill and John...
by admin | Oct 24, 2008 | General news
To continue in celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Mountain Rescue Service, the ’Hummer’ visited remote monitoring specialists Visual Verification. Two of Visual’s staff are full team call out members of the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, Steve...
by admin | Oct 23, 2008 | General news
Congratulations to our two latest Trainee Team Members, who after a period as Probationery members have moved a step up so to speak on their way to Full Team Call Out list membership. As trainees they will be able to attend all team activities, including Call Outs...
by admin | Oct 23, 2008 | General news
This evening the ’Hummer’ made a guest appearance at the weekly meeting of the 25th Bolton Scout Group Scouts. Not surprising really, as long serving and familiar to our regular readers, Bolton MRT Call Out list member Mike Marsh is the Assistant Scout...
