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 12 2015
Report on last nights Joint Exercise with Cheshire SART at Middlewood Scout Camp, Worsley
Yesterday evenings weekly team exercise on March 11th, took place at Middlewood Scout Camp, off Leigh Road, Worsley.
Readers will recall an exercise planning visit took place on Tuesday morning, 10th March – see website ‘News’ report dated the same.
We were joined by members of Cheshire Search and Rescue Team, including full team members, trainee members and even some of their very enthusiastic brand new members with only a few weeks experience.
Completely taking over the campsite car park, with our many private cars and team vehicles, our Incident Control Vehicle was parked up alongside Cheshire SARTs Control Vehicle.
Commencing at 20.00hrs (Cheshire team had been present a commendable 40 minutes earlier – so were able to indulge in the ancient art of group milling) all present were placed in to six SAR parties, consisting of both Bolton MRT and Cheshire SART members.
Exercise Control consisted of Bolton MRT Mike Marsh and Cheshire SART Chris Rank, who had the task of keeping the exercise running smoothly, with each party given twenty minutes to visit each of six scenario sites inclusive of travel time, within the extensive woodland and glades (plus a large lake) of Middlewood Scout Camp.
The six scenario sites consisted of;
Our Team Training Officer Alistair Greenough, who was working tonight, was there in spirit if not in person, or at least in the guise of the excellent exercise briefing notes given to each party, accompanying Martin Battersby’s map of the exercise area and sites.
Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE depending on your viewpoint, either wandered aimlessly amongst the night time woods for a while, or visited each site to ensure the exercise was going to plan!
By 22.20hrs all six SAR parties had visited each of the six exercise scenario sites, and a car park RVP debrief ended the exercise, which had fulfilled its principle aim of getting both teams to fully integrate during a fun and busy exercise.
Thanks are due to the four very understanding exercise casualties who volunteered their time tonight, and put up in various cases with lying in the mud – ok on a karrimat that slowly sank in to the mud, having endless amounts of very cold water put on ‘burns’ injuries, being manhandled in a very constrictive vacuum mattress, and being hauled endlessly up and down a slippy muddy slope; Andrew and Spike from our friends at North West 4×4 Response, Stephen Buckley (son of Howard Buckley, also NW 4×4 Response) and Jamie Ferguson, the fiancée of Bolton MRT Steve O’Hara’s daughter.
Twenty one Bolton MRT call out list and five Trainee team members joined by twenty seven Cheshire SART members took an active part in tonight’s exercise, which saw Bolton MRT deploy its four Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances plus our Incident Control Vehicle.
Post exercise, a small number of Bolton MRT and Cheshire SART members met up in the John Gilbert Public House at Worsley to further socialise and plan the Bolton MRTs impending visit to Cheshire SART in summer, when they are kindly holding a reciprocal joint exercise in Delamere Forest.
Finally thanks are due to Mike Dunn, Jill and Phil Rigby of Middlewood Scout Camp, Worsely, who had kindly granted us permission to exercise within the excellent venue of the Scout Camp.
By Paul Brain • Training