by admin | Sep 5, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 10:28 today the team was contacted by GMP for assistance with the search for a male in the Wigan area, who was missing in circumstances giving cause for concern with regards to his welfare. Following further liaison between the team and GMP, a full team pager call...
by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | Donations, General news
Back at the beginning of March this year the team was called out on a very cold Wednesday evening to search for a missing 11 year old Bury boy, Joe Geeling. 30 team members attended that evening along with our Search Dog Chi, but despite our best efforts and those of...
by admin | Aug 29, 2006 | General news
This evening our Vice President Tony McNally was guest of honour at the Bolton Lions Club evening meal at the Watermillock, Bolton. Tony was invited to give a short after dinner presentation on the work of our team and was pleasantly surprised to be told after this...
by admin | Aug 26, 2006 | General news
With grateful thanks to the Staff & Management at Sainsbury’s, Trinity St, Bolton. The Team was permitted to have another collection day there. We are very pleased to announce the figure of £456.01 was donated by the staff & customers of the...
by admin | Aug 25, 2006 | Donations, General news
You may recall that Debtmatters of Middlebrook, Horwich, adopted BMRT as their Charity of the month for July. So, with grateful thanks to the Customers and Staff of Debtmatters, thank you very much for the donation of £52.07
by admin | Aug 24, 2006 | Donations, General news
Last August we were called to Ousels Nest Quarry, opposite the Jumbles Reservoir, to assist GMAS with a climber, Iain Bisset, who had suffered injuries sustained in a fall whilst out rock climbing with his father Doctor David Bisset. Doctor Bisset contacted us as the...
by admin | Aug 23, 2006 | 2006, Incident
This evening our usual Wednesday evening weekly training exercise had been cancelled in favour of yesterday evening’s exercise with Cheshire LSART, so the entire Bolton MRT membership was looking forward to a quiet and cosy night in. Well, as is the nature of these...
by admin | Aug 22, 2006 | General news
This evening 17 team members and three of our Landrover ambulances journeyed to Delamere Forest in Cheshire to take part in a joint exercise hosted and organised by our colleagues in Cheshire Lowland Search & Rescue Team (a member team of ALSAR, the Association of...
by admin | Aug 20, 2006 | General news
Our colleagues in St. John Ambulance Brigade received recently into their vehicle fleet, a brand new Nissan Patrol vehicle, which has been customised as an incident support vehicle primarily for the many off-road incidents St. John Ambulance Bridage are called to...
by admin | Aug 20, 2006 | General news
The BBC Bristol “Flog It!” television programme (BBC 2 antiques series) approached the team recently with a view to the team being featured as an insert film into the series which is due to be based in the Bolton area for one of its programmes. This...
