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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Mar 25 2012
Retirement of Trailing Dog Mij, SARDA Wales / Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team.
For a great many years now, on a great many searches, the Bolton MRT has called upon the superb Search Dog Team of Handler Iain Nicholson and his specialist Trailing Dog Mij, both of Bowland Pennine MRT / SARDA Wales.
We are sad to report today that after seven years on operations and with over 200x operational searches undertaken together, many leading directly to the successful location of the missing person, Iain has decided to officially retire Mij from ‘active duty.’
As Mij was the only active Trailing Dog operational in England, it is timely that Handler Steve Nelson and his Trailing Dog Boris, successfully passed their assessment to go ‘operational’ on Friday 23rd March 2012 (See website ‘News’ report dated the same)
For those following the ‘Trailing Dog’ story from Friday’s report, this now means Steve and Boris are the only Trailing Dog team now operational in England. (One team is also operational in Wales)
The Bolton MRT membership would like to thank Iain Nicholson and of course Trailing Dog Mij, for all their assistance on searches over the last few years with us at all times of the day and night, in all weathers, workday, evening and weekend.
Iain has always responded to our calls for assistance, with never a word of complaint despite the vast majority of calls never being at a ‘convenient time !’
Word has it Iain will not have an easy retirement, as his wife Alison, still remains an operational SARDA Handler with air scenting Search Dog Floss, guess who the ‘Navigator’ will be on future searches ?
By admin • General news