by admin | Oct 14, 2008 | General news
Today the “Mountain Rescue Hummer” kindly on loan to the team (and of course Mountain Rescue in general) went on more adventures and visits with the team. First stop was to Frank Hulton Motor Engineers of Farnworth, Bolton. Frank looks after all four of...
by admin | Oct 13, 2008 | General news
Today, experienced team members Fred Taylor and Chris Greenhalgh journeyed with our Team Landrover Ambulance BM1 and BM5 (the Mountain Rescue Hummer) to Greater Manchester Police Air Support Unit helicopter (’India 99’) which is based at City Airport...
by admin | Oct 12, 2008 | General news
Today team members presented a team vehicle and equipment demonstration at the “Dig It” Queens Park, Bolton event, in celebration of Queens Park gaining a Heritage Lottery Grant to enable its full restoration. At various points in the day our BM4 Landrover...
by admin | Oct 12, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Three very experienced mountain bikers were enjoying the delights of mountain biking in the Rivington area today, when descending from the moorland landmark summit of Rivington Pike, one of the group, a 33 year old female mountain biker from the Clitheroe area,...
by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | General news
This evening, the team provided standby rescue cover (partly of a specialist nature) for the “Light Fantastic” evening public event culminating in a light show & firework display at Moses Gate Country Park, Farnworth, Bolton. The team was on hand to...
by admin | Oct 10, 2008 | General news
Readers of this news section will know that the team are equipped with Entonox® pain-killing gas (sometimes called “gas and air”) and that we use it very frequently. Well, sometimes things break when in such frequent use, and so it was with the valve...
by admin | Oct 10, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 20:24 this evening our Team Leader was contacted by GMP requesting the team’s assistance in a search operation for a missing 75 year old Swinton woman. The woman had been reported missing by her husband from her home address on the afternoon of today, prompting a...
by admin | Oct 10, 2008 | General news
This evening after receiving it on Thursday 9th October, the Hummer H3 Mountain Rescue vehicle on loan to the team received its first operational callout with the team on a search operation in the Swinton area (see incident 102/2008). The vehicle drew much interest...
by admin | Oct 9, 2008 | General news
Well it arrived tonight on a multi week loan from General Motors to our team, one Hummer H3 vehicle fully liveried up for Mountain Rescue use. In this the 75th Anniversary year of Mountain Rescue in the United Kingdom, Hummer partnered up with Mountain Rescue England...
by admin | Oct 9, 2008 | General news
This evening long serving and very experienced team call out list member Alison Yates took the hard decision to leave the teams call out list membership. Alison joined the team way back in August 1992 as a young General Nurse allied to her hill walking experiences and...
