Great day today with @NPASBarton "B crew" with TL Steve Fletcher as an observer during the day shift - thanks to the crew - more info here facebook.com/BoltonMRT/post…
Thanks to the crew at @NPASBarton for a fantastic day - lots learned! twitter.com/NPASBarton/sta…
Cas care practice with @BoltonMRT. Airway management is going on under there. pic.twitter.com/du2GFRSr3T
Kyah Hammond has links to the Blackburn and Darwen areas - please RT. twitter.com/DerbysPolice/s…
We are recruiting! Have you got what it takes to become a volunteer member of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Operational membership recruitment for our 2019 intake is now open. For more information please see the attached link:- boltonmrt.org.uk/about-us/mem… pic.twitter.com/4krIj5Yw0c
What a day! Great running everyone! Huge thanks to everyone involved in making the day a success! Special Thanks to @BoltonMRT for supporting the event too! :) results up tomo avo! pic.twitter.com/Z6vK6YaqWf
This is fantastic support for the team, thank you @LancsLadiesFG for selecting us as one of your charities twitter.com/LancsLadiesFG/…
On New Year's Eve, Assistant Team Leader Mark Scott was surprised and delighted to be given a cheque donation for BMRT of £150 by his friend Sarah Horan of Horwich. Thank you, Sarah, that's very generous and much appreciated!
It was a long night for some of our volunteers on duty overnight to support @NWAmb_GMControl @NWAmbulance twitter.com/NWAmb_GMContro…
As 2018 draws to a close, it’s also the end of our 50th Anniversary Year. A huge thank you to everyone that has supported us over the years, especially in 2018. It’s been special year for us and we can’t thank you enough! Happy New Year and hope you all have a fantastic 2019 pic.twitter.com/e0OSv0Bid1
Dec 19 2007
Operation Find Santa
This evening our last Wednesday evening exercise of the year saw all the members attending taking part in Operation ’Find Santa.’
Assembling at Lower House Car Park at 19.45hrs on an extremely cold and very icy, clear skies and starlit evening, the 30x team call out list members taking part heard that an elderly gentleman by the name of Nicholas Claus was missing within the Terraced Gardens at Rivington. He was reported to have last been seen wearing a red coat with white fur trimming, and wearing black shiny boots.
Splitting into two seperate search parties, with the Terraced Gardens divided by Roynton Lane into two search areas, the team members went about their search task with their usual enthusiastic attitude.
Various messages relayed back to Search Control recorded sightings of everything but our missing Nicholas Claus, including three wise men, so not team members then !, a shepherd tending his flock by night, and very bright stars in the night sky.
Eventually one party met with success, finding Nicholas Claus, well a twelve inch high paper mache Father Christmas really, surrounded by Christmas Gifts, in the guise of a bottle of Whisky, White Wine, Mince Pies, a Christmas Sponge Cake, and various nibbles.
Eating and drinking their way through their reward for their dilligent search technique and efforts, this first party were then surprised to hear on their radio handsets that the second complete search party had located the ’twin’ of Nicholas Claus, yep another paper mache Father Christmas and another pile of seasonal goodies.
Fortified with whiskey and wine, one party stretcher evacuated our Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon back to our Search control, well Geoff is getting old now ! Not to be outdone the second party were supposed to stretcher evacuate our Chairman Ken Oakes similarly back to Search control, but faced with the XX stones of Ken Oakes and the absolutely zero weight of a paper mache Father Christmas, guess who they evacuated back to the car park on their stretcher ?
The usual post exercise debrief took place in the chilly Lower House Car Park, (more mince pies) before all retired to the Bay Horse at Adlington for some more seasonal cheer and to celebrate the excellent end to another full year of team training on every Wednesday evening.
Also joining the 30x call out list members on the exercise and at the Bay Horse afterwards, were support Group member Gillian Gregory, ex team members Steve Berry, when is he going to finally rejoin ?, Jonathan and Stephanie Holt, and former team Search Dog Handler Dave Marsh and his Search Dog Chi once more back to full health and running around following his terrible injury of summer 2006.
Finally a big thanks to Team Leader Garry Rhodes for kindly supplying all the drinks and food on the exercise and for setting up the exercise.
And Operation ’Find Santa.’ well that stands for Stretcher And Navigation Training Activity ! Who says we have no imagination !
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