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Nov 7 2010
November New Team Member Recruitment Intake, Practical Day – Update
Following on from this mornings update, the bright and clear day held out for the entire day. The sixteen expected this morning actually resulted in fifteen turning up.
The fifteen potential new members were joined by twenty three existing Full Team Members, to give the potential recruits a taste of what being in the team is all about!
The day started with a session covering personal hill kit and team issued kit items, followed by short practical ’hands on’ demonstrations of our Bell and Troll Alphin Mountain Rescue Stretchers. Our medical and trauma kit items were then covered, followed by a demonstration of Trainee Mountain Rescue Trail Dog Boris by his handler Steve Nelson.
All then moved on to the first hill exercise. This was a navigation and fitness exercise, with all members given a checkpoint to find and reach within a given time limit, centred on Winter Hill.
After a spot of lunch all then took part on to the first stretcher exercise of many during the day, on the lower slopes of Winter Hill. All then become very familiar with how wet the track is from Wards Reservoir, Belmont back towards High Brow Car Park, with one group using a Bell stretcher, the second group using a Troll Alphin stretcher.
Above High Brow Car Park
Great Gutter Gully
Demonstrating the use of smoke
The stretcher carry
Having long legs has its advantages!
Pointing the way
The final stretch to the vehicles
Next all moved to Hordern Stoops to carry out a stretcher evacuation of two exercise casualties from Winter Hill Flats.
Casualty care on Winter Hill Flats
Fighting with the tussocks of long grass
Was it really this much fun?
The final exercise was a re-enactment of a previous incident, based in Anglezarke Quarry.
Extracting a stretcher from Anglezarke Quarry
All members then returned to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, for a full debrief on the day, constructive comments, and to hear the news that the decision had been taken to accept all as Probationary Team Members and a welcome into the team membership on this basis.
At the end of their day all the persons interested in joining the team who had taken part during today were asked on a de-brief sheet to briefly pass comment on Thursday evening November 4th and today.
There follows a selection of their comments, firstly regards the Thursday evening session;
Regards today’s session and the exercises, comments included;
Finally here are a selection of comments regarding their overall impressions of this November Recruitment Session ;
Of course we could not finish the report on today without mentioning some of the exploits of our own team members, including the “Who ate all the meat pies” bunch in Bolton Mobile 2 (Mark Scott looked particularly guilty), more very rare sightings (Confirmed) of our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE actually carrying a Mountain Rescue Stretcher (Webmaster; though not for very long), Samantha McKay playing a slightly too convincing wife of Stephen Kenworthy whilst both were acting out the role of ’Exercise Casualties,’ the tale of how our Training Officer Elaine Gilliland acquired her ’Bond Girl’ name of ’Elaine Wednesday,’ and Steve O’Hara becoming today’s ’Peat Bog Snorkeling Champion’ when he proved to all present that man cannot walk on water and certainly cannot walk on a four foot deep boggy peat pool !
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