Great day today with @NPASBarton "B crew" with TL Steve Fletcher as an observer during the day shift - thanks to the crew - more info here facebook.com/BoltonMRT/post…
Thanks to the crew at @NPASBarton for a fantastic day - lots learned! twitter.com/NPASBarton/sta…
Cas care practice with @BoltonMRT. Airway management is going on under there. pic.twitter.com/du2GFRSr3T
Kyah Hammond has links to the Blackburn and Darwen areas - please RT. twitter.com/DerbysPolice/s…
We are recruiting! Have you got what it takes to become a volunteer member of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Operational membership recruitment for our 2019 intake is now open. For more information please see the attached link:- boltonmrt.org.uk/about-us/mem… pic.twitter.com/4krIj5Yw0c
What a day! Great running everyone! Huge thanks to everyone involved in making the day a success! Special Thanks to @BoltonMRT for supporting the event too! :) results up tomo avo! pic.twitter.com/Z6vK6YaqWf
This is fantastic support for the team, thank you @LancsLadiesFG for selecting us as one of your charities twitter.com/LancsLadiesFG/…
On New Year's Eve, Assistant Team Leader Mark Scott was surprised and delighted to be given a cheque donation for BMRT of £150 by his friend Sarah Horan of Horwich. Thank you, Sarah, that's very generous and much appreciated!
It was a long night for some of our volunteers on duty overnight to support @NWAmb_GMControl @NWAmbulance twitter.com/NWAmb_GMContro…
As 2018 draws to a close, it’s also the end of our 50th Anniversary Year. A huge thank you to everyone that has supported us over the years, especially in 2018. It’s been special year for us and we can’t thank you enough! Happy New Year and hope you all have a fantastic 2019 pic.twitter.com/e0OSv0Bid1
Sep 27 2015
Best wishes to SARDA Handler Alison Nicholson and her Search Dog Floss, on their retirement from operational SARDA duties
The whole team membership wishes to extend its best wishes to SARDA Handler Alison Nicholson and her Search Dog Floss, on their retirement from operational SARDA duties in August this year.
Alison, a long serving operational member of Bowland Pennine MRT, spent 4 to 5 years exercise ‘bodying’ for SARDA before taking the plunge and training Floss as an air scenting mountain rescue search dog.
Mountain Rescue Search Dog Floss graded as a Novice Search Dog in January 2009, which meant she could attend operational searches with Alison.
Full Search Dog grading followed in October 2010 for Alison and Floss.
By Alison’s reckoning she and Floss have attended well over 100x operational searches, from Cornwall to the Lake District, North Wales to the mid Pennines, all as a fully graded SARDA England Search Dog Team.
Alison and Floss over their years as an operational search dog team, have assisted Bolton MRT on a great many of our search incidents, readily helping whenever we asked for their support.
With Floss’s increasing age (10) Alison, a school teacher from Leyland, decided to ‘retire’ Floss from active duties, and such took place in August this year, after a long and successful search dog career.
Alison is married to former Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Iain Nicholson, also a member of Bowland Pennine MRT, who retired his Trailing search Dog Mij, three years ago, also aged ten at the time.
Floss, aged ten now joins Mij, aged thirteen, in happy search dog joint retirement, still enjoying the countryside, hills and mountains with Alison and Iain.
By Paul Brain • General news •