by admin | Sep 27, 2008 | General news
Today team members Steve Fletcher and Chris Greenhalgh journeyed to the Bowland Pennine MRT Base at Garstang, Lancashire, to attend a course organised by Nick Mattock, the MPSRO’s Training Coordinator (also a Lancashire Constabulary officer), with the course...
by admin | Sep 24, 2008 | General news
This Wednesday evening our regular training exercise took the form of some casualty care revision, following on from our Mountain Rescue Casualty Care Certificate course which ended earlier this year. (at least until we all have to repeat it to keep our certificates...
by admin | Sep 24, 2008 | General news
For a number of years the team has had each of its four Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulances equipped with two types of water throwline, to effect the rescue of a person in distress in water. (essential pieces of kit given the number of reservoirs and lakes in our...
by admin | Sep 23, 2008 | General news
As part of their community service award, the young Beaver Scouts at 25th Bolton South (St. Thomas and St. John Lostock) wanted to wash one of the team’s Landrover ambulances this evening. Team member Mike Marsh collected our BM3 Landrover Ambulance from...
by admin | Sep 23, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a very kind £20 donation from Miss. K.E. Allen of London, in memory of Mr. Dennis Jackson. The team’s condolences are expressed to the family and friends Mr. Dennis Jackson.
by admin | Sep 23, 2008 | General news
This evening, Dave Capper the Assistant Scout Leader, and Darren Williams the Cub Scout Leader of 3rd Farnworth Scout Group visited the team to discuss with our Team Leader sponsorship details for a money-raising event to raise funds for the team that the 3rd...
by admin | Sep 23, 2008 | General news
This evening the team welcomed a small party of 6 women from the Bolton Ladies’ Fundraising Group who as readers will recall are holding a Spring Luncheon on Wednesday 23rd April 2009 to raise funds to be divided between the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team and...
by admin | Sep 22, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 01:11 in the early hours of this morning, with the team already deployed on a search operation (albeit in its concluding stages) the team was paged to attend an incident in the urban situation of Cadishead town centre with the report of a youth who had fallen down...
by admin | Sep 22, 2008 | General news
Terry Blumhardt a 37 years old member of Turangi Search and Rescue, part of the New Zealand Land Search and Rescue organisation, has been in the UK since 20th August 2008. He journeyed here on a study tour to visit Mountain Search and Rescue teams throughout the UK,...
by admin | Sep 21, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 22:16 this evening the team was contacted by Greater Manchester Police with regards to assistance for a continuing search operation for a missing 67 year old male from a nursing home in South Manchester. A full team response took place resulting in 19 team members...
