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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Oct 3 2015
MREW Water Conference today in Buxton
Today Bolton MRT Equipment Officer –Water Dave Cook attended the Mountain Rescue England and Wales National Water Conference 2015. The event was held in the impressive High Peak Ballroom of the Palace Hotel in Buxton
After registration and tea and coffee, Andy Lee – MREW National Water Officer and Conference Chair opened the proceedings with a welcome and a DEFRA water standards update.
The first guest speaker was Alex Hanson of Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service who presented a “lessons learned” talk about the Somerset flooding of 2014.
Next up was Malcolm Weatherall of The Met Office (yes that is his real name!) chatting about the reasons for flooding and in particular the convergence of weather systems to create “super rain”,
MREW National Water Officer Andy Lee then delivered the latest details of the MREW Water Standards and their integration into the statutory emergency services.
Veteran of RAF Seaking search and rescue helicopters Douglas MacDonald, now Head of Avionic Operations with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency then took to the stage to update the audience on the roll out of the new search Sikorsky S92A helicopters being provided by Bristow.
An excellent presentation by Josip Granic about the 2014 floods in Bosnia and Croatia we very well received by the delegates. Josip is a member of the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service and shared his experiences of very large scale flooding combined with an uncoordinated response and lack of equipment – and how he and his team overcame the problems and how the community helped each other through. Josip travelled from Croatia for his half an hour on stage and huge thanks was expressed by the conference for his commitment.
Lunch followed and a good trade exhibition where Dave met up with Kevin Garvey of Rossendale and Pendle MRT to discuss the products being displayed and hopeful future purchases.
Alan Heath of Police Scotland advised the conference on search considerations and Police expectations of Mountain Rescue.
iFind is a new set of missing persons data being published by the UK National Crime Agency Missing Persons Bureau and a comprehensive introduction to this was delivered by Intelligence Officer Naomi Eales – including some exercises in interpreting the new data. Body Recovery From Water is a data collection exercise being carried out by Lorna Dennison-Wilkins of Sussex Police – she showed her findings so far on her study into the likely location a deceased body would be found in water.
Last but very much not least was Matt Ward, Consultant Paramedic with West Midlands Ambulance Service with his views on medical considerations within flooded and water environments.
Andy Lee then closed the Conference with thanks to all speakers, exhibitors and delegates for their attendance.
By Paul Brain • General news