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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Jan 12 2013
Lancashire Constabulary Missing Person Search Manager Course concludes with full day of practical search exercises in the Fleetwood area
Since Tuesday 8th January (See website news report dated the same) experienced team call out list members Steve Fletcher and Chris Greenhalgh have been attending each following day, the intensive Lancashire Constabulary Missing Person Search Manager Course.
Consisting of both theory and practical exercises, the course completed today with
Steve, Chris and all the Police Officers on the course being put through a day long intensive ‘missing persons’ search exercise in the Fleetwood area of Lancashire.
Commencing at Fleetwood Police Station at 10.00hrs this morning, all the course ‘Trainee’ Missing Person Search Managers were presented with the ‘missing persons’ scenario and then moved on in the early afternoon to the Dementia Rehabilitation Unit at Rossall, Fleetwood, where the practical search exercises were being held, including the surrounding area.
Attending to give all the ‘Trainee Search Managers’ on the course ‘real time’ experience of dealing with the many agencies who would be involved in an actual search operation were seventeen members of Bowland Pennine MRT, eighteen members of Bolton MRT, four members of Rossendale and Pendle MRT, Lancashire Constabulary Officers and fifteen Coastguard SAR members from the Marine Coastguard Agency.
The eighteen members present from our team as searchers included seven of our Probationary team members, one trainee Team Call Out list member and ten Full team Call Out list members.
We also attended with three of our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles and our Minibus Ambulance.
Both Bolton MRT and Bowland Pennine MRT also supplied experienced Mountain Rescue Search Managers to act as ‘Advisors’ to the Trainee Search Managers, in our case this was very experienced and long serving team call out list member Mike Marsh.
The exercises completed successfully with all the ‘missing persons’ located, and rather uniquely some MRT members being involved in searching buildings, to give them an appreciation and understanding of what Police Officers do when they routinely carry out such searches.
Most of the MRT searchers were deployed in to the surrounding open land areas around the DRU at Rossall including coastal and beach searching alongside the Coastguard SAR team members present from the MCA.
All present not only benefitted from the bracing sea air, it was also dry and sunny!
This exercise not only served to give all the ‘Trainee’ Missing Person Search Managers (Who incidentally, with our full congratulations all ‘passed’ with flying colours) practical experience of co-ordinating search parties from different agencies, but it also served the very useful purpose of allowing all present to gain a better understanding of joint and multi agency search working.
The newly qualified Police & MRT “Missing From Home” Search Managers, pictured at the end of today’s exercise
The Bolton MRT wishes to pass on its thanks to those Lancashire Constabulary Officers involved in organising todays exercise, and in particular Inspector Neil Sherry.
By admin • General news