by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Training
Tonights exercise tested the teams expertise in problem solving and dealing with difficult extrications. Organised by Paul Brain, the team members were split into two groups, with a casualty for each group to attend to. With the vehicle RVP situated at Abbey Village,...
by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Training
Last Saturday 14th November, nine members of the team travelled to the lake district for the Mountain Rescue (England & Wales) (MREW) Medical Seminar in Ambleside, administered by Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team. The course was entirely sponsored by a...
by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Not previously reported on our website, was the visit on Thursday afternoon 12th November to Year 3 Lowton St Mary’s Primary School, Newton Road, Lowton, by Life Vice President Tony McNally, and call out members Paul Copley and Heath Doran to give an oversight into...
by admin | Nov 17, 2015 | General news
This Saturday, 21st November 2015, our Support Group will be busy all day holding a charity collection at MORRISON’s supermarket, Gate Fold, Harwood, Bolton. We hope their customers will pause from their shopping to chat to us and, maybe, make a donation towards our...
by admin | Nov 15, 2015 | General news
The team was contacted by Lancashire Constabulary on Friday 15th November at 14.50 to give us an early warning of the expected period of heavy rain and the potential of flooding in Cumbria and North Lancashire. and also to check on our availability over the period of...
by admin | Nov 15, 2015 | General news
Being held over the weekend of Friday to Sunday 27th to 29th November 2015, is this years MREW Party Leaders Course. Current team member, MPSRO Training Officer and former Team Training Officer Elaine Gilliland is organising this years course, and today held a meeting...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | Training
Tonights exercise was a partial re-creation of an incident the team attended on 19th January 2012, Incident 10/2012, where a person was injured in the River Roddlesworth within the Roddlesworth/Tockholes Plantation. Organised by Paul Brain, with RVP at the Tockholes...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This evening callout list member Mark Scott headed to Charity Farm near Parbold where the Parbold Young Farmers were having their weekly meeting. Mark had been invited by the group to give an illustrated lecture on the work of the team. The invitation followed the...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This morning, at the kind invitation of Mrs Kathleen Pyle, the President of Horwich Inner Wheel Club, long serving team member Mark Scott, accompanied by Team Secretary, Gillian Gregory, officially opened their Coffee Morning at 10:00am at Horwich RMI Social Club. ...
by admin | Nov 10, 2015 | 2015, Incident
A third search assisting NEWSART in four days, saw our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson contacted initially on Monday evening, 9th November 2015, to lend his specialist assistance to a search operation near Wrexham, regarding a missing male,...
