by admin | Jul 27, 2008 | General news
This morning into the middle of the afternoon our team operational area hosted a joint training opportunity involving our Trainee SARDA dog ’ Jess ’ and BMRT handler Alistair Greenough, the direction and advice of former BMRT member and SARDA handler Dave...
by admin | Jul 26, 2008 | General news
Today in glorious all day sunshine, 18x call out list members, 3x Support Group members and three family members of team members took part in an all day collection at the Sainsburys store, Trinity Way, Bolton. In total £285.06 was collected thanks to the...
by admin | Jul 24, 2008 | General news
Whilst attending the quarterly evening meeting of the Greater Manchester Emergency Services Liaison Group (BMRT, OMRT, RPMRT, GMP, NWAS, GMFRS) the team received a pager call from NWAS (Lancashire) regarding an incident in the Blackburn area. The call was answered...
by admin | Jul 23, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 16:55 late this afternoon the team was contacted by NWAS (GMA) for assistance with the evacuation of an unconscious male within Lilford Park, Leigh. At the time of our contact, the NWAS ambulance could not gain access into the park due to locked park gates, but...
by admin | Jul 23, 2008 | General news
Whilst at our base on our routine Wednesday night training exercise, our Team Leader ended up dealing with a direct call from a Youth Services Leader who was concerned for the well being of two 12 year old children in his youth party who were overdue from a walk in...
by admin | Jul 22, 2008 | General news
Today, members of the team were invited to assist Lancashire Constabulary Neighbourhood Policing Team with an awareness day on Water Safety. In conjunction with United Utilites Ranger Service, the Police gave out leaflets and information highlighting the dangers of...
by admin | Jul 22, 2008 | 2008, Incident
An unusual weekday early morning call when at 09:33 we were contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester) for assistance with the report of an unconcious woman on a footpath leading onto Clifton Moss, in the Newtown area of Swinton. A full team callout message was paged at...
by admin | Jul 20, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Early this evening a body was chanced upon by passing hillwalkers in the vicinity of Pickup Bank Reservoir, Belthorn, Darwen. This resulted in an immediate response by Lancashire Constabulary officers and the North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire). At 18:38 the...
by admin | Jul 19, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At lunchtime today the team was contacted by the GMP Force Incident Manager requesting the teams assistance to evacuate an injured mountain biker taking part in the ’Hit the North’ 12 hour mountain bike race in the Ringley area of Kearsley. The request was to assist...
by admin | Jul 18, 2008 | General news
This evening 7 members of the Bolton East District Explorer Scout Unit visited the teams Ladybridge Hall Base to enjoy a lecture delivered by 4 of our Full Team Callout members. After the presentation on the teams history and training the group was shown the equipment...
