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 27 2015
SARCALL MPSRO Silver Exercise this evening
SARCALL is the activation and incident logging system – with many other features, increasingly becoming adopted at a national level within MREW.
Each mountain rescue region also has appointed ‘Silver’ Officers, in the case of MPSRO, our regional body, the two ‘Silver’ Officers per teams in Lancashire are the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader.
This evening, the first test of the SARCALL MPSRO Silver Group / Lancashire, took place, co ordinated by Phil O’Brien of Bowland Pennine MRT.
His own team, Rossendale and Pendle MRT and our team …. that is the ‘Silver’ Officers in each team, all received at 19.05hrs this evening a SARCALL Mid Pennine Silver message, by SMS test, pager and email – or at least they should have!
The exercise message was topical, regarding a bad weather alert in Lancashire, and how many 4 x 4 vehicles were available in BPMRT, BMRT and RPMRT, from midnight to support the Statutory Services.
An appropriate reply was logged on SARCALL Silver by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, with eleven vehicles in total being available in the region.
As ever the exercise raised a few issues which can be addressed quickly, and overall worked well.
Tomorrow evening the Lake District regional mountain rescue body, LDSAMRA is hosting a desktop Major Incident exercise, ‘Exercise Cloud Burst,’ and this may involve a request via SARCALL MPSRO Silver Group, fro resources and assets from this region.
Andy Binstead, Deputy Team Leader of Bowland Pennine MRT will be assuming the role of MPSRO Silver Commander, should a request be made to MPSRO, and in this event will co-ordinate the MPSRO response.
Any suggestion that the naming of our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE as a ‘Silver’ Officer is linked to his grey some would say all over silver hair – what’s left of it that is, can be viewed as simply coincidental or entirely apt – you choose!
By Paul Brain • General news