Our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family following the sad news of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Many of our members were inspired to enjoy the outdoors through the DofE Award. The picture shows members meeting the Duke in 1979. pic.twitter.com/SSTC30CcPB
At 4.56pm yesterday we were requested by NWAS to assist with a 22yo male who had fallen at Tiger’s Clough. The team treated him with pain relief & placed a vacuum splint around the injured ankle, then stretchered him to the waiting ambulance.We wish him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/ZEbrt4vaLT
1/2 From all of us at BMRT we would just like to thank every one of you that donated to us this weekend. It was a hard decision for us not to do our usual Easter meet and great around Rivington but for the safety of our team members, we decided against it. pic.twitter.com/xkNOo8equX
It's been a busy start to 2021 for the team. Three months in & we are already on our way to more callouts than we had last year. If you can support us in our work, please feel free to donate via boltonmrt.enthuse.com/#!/ #BoltonMRT #Volunteers #Donate #Rescues #BeenBusy pic.twitter.com/KhDxLT92N8
1/ Today is usually a busy and important day for the team. With so many people visiting the Rivington area in particular, we would usually have our displays set up around the area to help educate people about outdoor safety. pic.twitter.com/0iKNZaqWU1
Thank you to everyone who nominated us for these awards and huge congratulations to Ricky Lomax for winning the Emergency Service Award 🥳 #BoltonNewsLockdownHeroes twitter.com/theboltonnews/…
Our water team has been very busy over the past few weeks! Congratulations to our new MOD2’s and well done to our MOD4’s for passing their refreshers course 🥳 facebook.com/58756182794365… #BoltonMRT #WaterSafety #Training pic.twitter.com/3MaO6XkOnF
If you see a fire in the countryside, report it immediately 🔥 Leave the area as soon as possible and dial 999 📱 If you witness illegal activity report it to Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 pic.twitter.com/I7eRXLwQx4
❓ Did you know that moorland and wildfires can be started in a number of ways? Sadly, many are started deliberately, however, some can break out by people being careless with barbecues, campfires or not disposing of cigarettes properly 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WDHdEHFcXA
We appreciate this encouraging message of support from our colleagues at NWAS twitter.com/NWAmbulance/st…
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Nov 25 2003
Landrover off-road driving
Team members Dave Healey & Iain Peel attend the Landrover Experience Level 1 Off Road Driver Training course at their Off Road Centre in Skipton, North Yorkshire. A early start saw the intrepid duo arrive bright and breezy, thanks to the MacDonalds breakfast en route. The day was spent with some classroom theory on how a Landrover uses 4WD and the benefits of High & Low ratio gears & Diff Lock. Then it was outside to look at the Defender to get an understanding of what is under the bonnet, a quick road trip to explain Diff Lock windup and how to utilise the Diff Lock for added breaking effect whilst on the road. After this is was playtime with Dave getting behind the wheel first.
’Its a Landrover, it’ll go anywhere’ says the instructor.
Lunch was provided and then Iain took over for some more exercises. Both, were shown how to climb up inclines of varying steepness and slippyness, how to use the brakes to get up an incline !!, stalled and failed recovery techniques whilst driving up an incline and how to stop the vehicle whilst going down the other side, with out lossing control and sliding.
’Oh, I think I’m stuck’ thinks Iain.
The later part of the afternoon was spent in the play pit demonstrating to Steve, the instructor, that we had understood what he had told us. Then a little obstacle course to put it all into affect, the look on the car passengers as they drive past the centre and your coming down a steep hill, is one sight that will stay with them for a long time. Our thanks are expressed to Adrian, Georgina & Robina for making us feel very welcome, the instructor Steve who was an absolute pleasure to be taught by and he didn’t mind you swearing when things went wrong. Also to Williams Landrover for getting us there in the first place, Thank You all. As Arnie says ’we’ll be back’
A 30 degree slope is nothing for a Landrover.
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