by admin | Oct 19, 2006 | Donations, General news
For a great many years now Greater Manchester Police has kindly supported our team by meeting our Team Vehicle and SARDA Dog Handlers Vehicle fuel costs whilst engaged on search operations for Greater Manchester Police. They have also kindly met our catering expenses...
by admin | Oct 18, 2006 | General news
This evening our Team Leader, Deputy Leader and Chairman met with Gareth Halliburton abd Chris Hegarty of ROK Building Ltd to discuss a one year partnership arrangement with ROK Building Ltd as part of their community support programme within the Bolton area. Gareth,...
by admin | Oct 18, 2006 | General news
We received by email today the pleasant surprise of a promised donation amounting to £300 from Paul O’Rourke, of Alpine Extreme, 254 Bolton Road, Westhoughton. Paul is opening an Outdoor Equipment retail shop in Westhoughton and would like to build a...
by admin | Oct 17, 2006 | General news
Over a year ago, at a meeting of our regional body the Mid Pennine Search & Rescue Organisation, it was decided to initiate a Long Service Awards scheme for Mountain Rescue operational service as our national body, Mountain Rescue England & Wales only has in...
by admin | Oct 17, 2006 | General news
Long serving team member and team search dog handler David Marsh (Dave) announced recently to our Team Leader that he intended retiring from the team at the Long Service Award ceremony evening, after serving in the team for 20 years over two seperate times in the team...
by admin | Oct 15, 2006 | General news
Late afternoon today, after the tower crane exercise and the previous incident, the team was again paged by NWAS (Manchester locality) for assistance at a golf course in Shevington, Standish area with the report of a collapsed person away from the nearest road. Our...
by admin | Oct 15, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 12:20, the North West Ambulance Service (Manchester Locality) contacted the team for assistance in accessing a patient who had fallen at a remote farmhouse in Tottington. The team was involved in a tower crane exercise in Bolton Town Centre, and consequently BM2...
by admin | Oct 15, 2006 | General news
The team, joint with Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service and Oldham MRT, undertook today a tower crane exercise with thanks to ROK Building Ltd on a 120 feet high tower crane on their building site in Bark Street, Bolton. The team has an arrangement along...
by admin | Oct 14, 2006 | General news
Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes and his partner Ann Thompson (also a team member) this weekend had some rare time together away from the team and Garry’s responsibilities as Team Leader, but part of it turned out to be a Busman’s holiday! Staying in North...
by admin | Oct 8, 2006 | 2006, Incident
Breaking the recent run of ’stood down responding’ calls came a call this morning in support of the North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire Locality) Within minutes of our Team Leader routinely informing NWAS (LL) that the team was on exercise in the team area, NWAS...
