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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Apr 19 2015
MPSRO SARMAN Training Course
Over the past two days, team members Mike Marsh and Paul Brain, both experienced Search Managers, travelled to Smelt Mill in the Trough of Bowland, the operational base/HQ of our neighbouring Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team. Bolton and Bowland Pennine together with other members of the Mid-Pennine Search and Rescue Organisation (MPSRO), from Calder Valley Search & Rescue Team, Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team and Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team, were all at Smelt Mill to receive training in the new Mapyx MX SARMAN software .
SARMAN is a search management module which acts as a plugin on the Mapyx versatile Quo mapping software, and is provided to all Mountain Rescue teams in England and Wales.
Bolton MRT have been using Quo and the original version of SARMAN since 2010, MX SARMAN builds on the success of the original, and builds on the continuing maturity (and prevalence) of technological advances, and adds a multi-user version where more than one search manager can add information simultaneously from different machines.
The course was facilitated by Steven Wood and Shaun Cronin of Mapyx who have an understanding of Search Management, both within Mountain Rescue and the Police.
Mike and Paul found the training informative, and the improvements beneficial to assist in future Search operations. One advantage of all MPSRO teams getting trained together will become apparent at the next multi-agency search we conduct, where all teams will have the same understanding of the capabilities of the software.
Mike and Paul would like to thank Steven and Shaun from Mapyx for the training and Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team, in particular Iain Nicholson of Bowland Pennine MRT for organising and hosting the training weekend.
Thank you also to Alison Nicholson for providing the catering for the weekend. Message to the catering team at our own Foundation Course, the bar has been raised!
By Paul Brain • Training