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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Jul 1 2015
Team in rope work adventure in Tigers Clough this evening
With so much rope work training taking place within the team over recent weeks (months) tonight for our weekly training exercise meeting, our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh and our Training Officer Alistair Greenough, decided to organise a rope work fun / adventure evening for their team colleagues.
The chosen venue was the steep rocky outcrop sided valley of the River Douglas between Rivington Lever Park and Horwich, more familiarly known as Tigers Clough.
As the day got hotter (turning out to be a real scorcher of a July 1st) the five finished off their rope work challenge course for their colleagues to test out in the evening, all credit goes to these five who battled and lost to the millions of midges who see Tigers Clough as their territory and ideal hunting ground for a good dose of blood from any hapless humans ie these five, that happen to be around.
Late in to the evening, and commencing again on Thursday morning 2nd July, Alistair, Chris, and john, joined by trainee member Neil Haigh and our Equipment Officer – Ropes and Stretchers, checked over all the kit used, and placed in all back in its correct locations in each of our Land Rovers.
Meanwhile this same evening, our DVSD Handler Dave Marsh and Equipment Officer – Water Dave Cook were at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ repairing a little leak that had developed on our 3.4 metre long SAR Boat, the leak was repaired but another little ‘accident’ (webmaster, these two do like to create jobs for themselves) saw the two Dave’s wondering where at 22.00hrs they could find a local supply of outboard engine oil!
Also busy this evening was our Equipment Officer – Vehicles Neil Aspinall and his ‘new’ apprentice, team colleague Kris Kilshaw, checking that the little problem we had with our Incident Control Vehicle on Monday’s call out (Incident 58) hadn’t returned – all was well thankfully.
…… and to end the report on tonight, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and Equipment Officer –IT and Communications Steve Fletcher spent a ‘pleasant?’ few evening hours in the mugginess of our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ completely updating the teams comprehensive ‘Information Pack,’ and Training and Events Programme – Issue 9 July 2015, whilst our Treasurer Martin Banks beavered away balancing our books and looking to even more diverse ways to fund the running of the team.
There follows a report on this evenings exercise by our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh;
By Paul Brain • Training