by admin | Oct 9, 2008 | General news
Today trainee team member Gary Allton, due to work and family commitments decided to leave the team call out list membership since joining in February 2008. This leaves five trainee members from our February 2008 intake, and two from our most recent intake, who will...
by admin | Oct 9, 2008 | General news
This evening we received the excellent news from Craig Knights, the current Chairman of Bolton and District Round Table, that he had announced us as the beneficiary of the fund raising work of the Bolton and District Round Table, under the Chairmans nominated charity...
by admin | Oct 8, 2008 | General news
Congratulations to our avid website readers Alan Pinnington, Alex Bullock and Dave Marsh, all of whom correctly guessed that the “Big Yellow Thing” coming soon to Bolton MRT is the MREW Hummer H3, which is doing tours of Mountain Rescue Teams around the...
by admin | Oct 7, 2008 | General news
Following on from our short article of the #article#2138#2nd October#… The big and yellow thing might just be arriving with Bolton MRT tomorrow. A close-up teaser! If any of our readers want to guess what it is, contact us via our Visitor’s Book. The best...
by admin | Oct 7, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This evening at 19.27 hours the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) for immediate assistance as part of their ’ Step Up ’ procedure, with a very high volume of emergency calls being handled by NWAS (GMA) resulting in resource issues. The team was able to...
by admin | Oct 6, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received another very kind donation in the memory of the late Dennis Jackson, who had been a member of the Bolton C.H.A. Walking Club. The team extends its thanks to Mr and Mrs Pearson of Harwood, Bolton for their kind donation of £20.00 to the memory...
by admin | Oct 6, 2008 | Donations, General news
Not previously reported on the website, on Sunday 28th September whilst parked up in the team area, the crew of one of our Landrover Ambulances was approached in the Lower House area of Rivington by a concerned man carrying a young child who had sustained an ankle...
by admin | Oct 5, 2008 | 2008, Incident
In similar circumstances to the previous incident, the team was again contacted for its help to NWAS (GMA), this time around 15.03hrs, to respond to an RTC involving a 20 year old female moped driver who had sustained arm and leg injuries in an accident in the Hag...
by admin | Oct 5, 2008 | 2008, Incident
The team was contacted at circa 13.26hrs this afternoon, by NWAS (GMA) to ask if the team could assist NWAS (GMA) with an incident in Horwich, as the team had pre notified NWAS Control they were in the nearby area, and due to a peak demand situation 999 ambulance...
by admin | Oct 5, 2008 | General news
Today we placed into service our latest casualty simulation equipment purchase, three different sets of ’ Plastifol ’ wound replicas, from Brownings Plastics Limited. Previously donations in the memory of the late Reverend Michael Robinson, have allowed us...
