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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Jul 7 2012
Team attends GMFRS Farnworth Fire Station Open Day
Today half the team was present at this years GMFRS Farnworth Fire Station Open Day, with the other half of the team present at the annual Darwen 999 Emergency Services Day.
As in Darwen, it was blue skies all day and very warm temperatures at Farnworth.
We took along two of our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances, and our Control Trailer, joined later in the afternoon by a third Team Land Rover towing our 3.5m semi rigid inflatable SAR Boat on its trailer, which had travelled to Farnworth from the 999 Darwen event which had finished at 14.00hrs.
GMFRS had a wide range of their Appliances on display, including the two based Water Ladder Appliances, an Incident Response Unit, Special Incident Vehicle, an Hydraulic Ladder Platform (From GMFRS Bolton Central Fire Station) an Operational Support Unit and a Water Incident Unit from GMFRS Eccles Fire Station complete with its Rescue Boat.
A vintage Dennis Fire Engine from the Greater Manchester Fire Museum was also present, alongside Fire Service related charity stalls, including face painting (some nice face artwork by GMFRS Community Volunteer Emma) and an excellent drill and ladder display by GMFRS Cadets.
Greater Manchester Police attended with a Divisional Patrol Car and Van.
Nine Team Call Out list members were present, with a display not just of our vehicles, but also of the wide range of search and rescue equipment kept on the vehicles.
Our Trainee Drowned Victim Search
Dog, ‘Sasha’ created a lot more interest than her handler, Team member Dave Marsh ! who has previously worked as a very experienced Search Dog Handler in the team. (With the late Search Dog ‘Chi’)
Mountain Rescue Stretcher rides around the Fire Station saw many children and quite a few adults queuing up to experience what it is like to be a casualty! whilst many had a go at CPR on our resuscitation manikin.
Young and old also did the usual ‘sit in our vehicles’ (And all the Fire and Police vehicles present) and turn on the sirens and blue lights.
With thanks to the kindness of the many visitors to the Fire Station we received £96.18p in donations, all very much appreciated.
The team welcomes opportunities to display when it can, subject to other commitments, at GMFRS Fire Station Open Days, with today also presenting a great many opportunities for our team members present to liaise directly with GMFRS Firefighters and further strengthen our operational links.
(Webmaster; Later this same day after we had left the Farnworth Fire Station Open Day at its conclusion, the team was called out by GMFRS – we were subsequently stood down, to assist at an incident attended by Crews from Farnworth Fire Station and their Officer, who earlier had shown much interest in the work of the team. See Incident Report 51-2012)
By admin • General news