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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Feb 3 2014
SARDA Assessment Weekend
This last week-end saw our Training Officer Dave Marsh, travelling down to just north west of Canterbury, Kent, having been invited to participate as a lead assessor, on behalf of the National Search and Rescue Dog Association Kent.
Readers will recall that Dave is a former SARDA England Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Dog Handler, and is currently training to be a Drowned Victim Search Dog (DVSD) Handler with Sasha, alongside being Secretary for NSARDA.
NSARDA Kent is a member of the National SARDA set up and as such, agree to hold assessments on a regular basis in order that their working dogs are viewed to be ’fit for purpose’.
This ensures that both dogs and handlers are qualified to the same standards that all other NSARDA associations, throughout the UK work to.
The assessments commenced Friday morning, 31st January and finished late Saturday afternoon 2nd February.
It is pleasing to note that three dogs maintained their competence levels and were re-qualified to the standards laid down.
On a sadder note, one dog was retired having participated in over 150 searches during the course of its working life.
Sunday 2nd February saw Dave travelling across to Farnborough, where he met up with fellow Drowned Victims Search Dog handler Phillip Eichman.
Phillip is in the early stages of DVSD training with his young dog Skye and are members of ALSAR [Association of Lowland Search and Rescue] and this joint training emphasises the working together of both associations for the benefit of the missing person, long may that be so.
On the way home, Dave stopped over at the Harper Adams University in Shropshire to view the facilities offered with a potential to it being used as the venue for the 50th Anniversary of Mountain Rescue Search Dogs Conference.
This will be a celebration of an initial idea by Hamish MacInnes, the famous Scottish mountaineer and renowned mountain rescuer, who founded the idea of using dogs for search and rescue in this country.
By admin • General news