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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Nov 28 2015
Specialist Mountain Rescue Search Dog assets within the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team
Regular readers will be aware we have two operational Mountain Rescue Dog Handlers within the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team membership.
Both represent specialisms within the NSARDA community, where air scenting search dogs are perhaps more widely known to the public at large.
Handler Dave Marsh is a Mountain Rescue DVSD (Drowned Victims Search Dog) Handler, with his DVSD Search Dog Sasha, and is a member of SARDA Ireland North, alongside his Bolton MRT membership.
Dave was formerly a SARDA England Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Dog Handler, with Chi his Search Dog at the time, who has since passed away after a very successful career during which a number of persons were found by Chi.
Dave (and Sasha) alongside his colleague from BTP Mike Dermody and Quincy, are the only DVSD assets currently operational in England and Wales.
Handler Steve Nelson is a Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler, with his Trailing Search Dog Boris, and is a member of SARDA Wales, alongside his Bolton MRT membership. (Steve is regularly assisted by colleague Bolton MRT member Elaine Gilliland, who acts as navigator to Steve on operational calls, and is also a member of SARDA Wales)
Like Dave and Sasha, Mike and Quincy, Steve Nelson and Boris are also unique within England and Wales, being the only currently operational Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog asset.
Both Dave and Steve receive a large number of enquiries all the time for their unique specialist search dog capabilities and knowledge, with a great many resulting in standby periods, which are then frequently stood down as some of these incidents resolve themselves (as these are so many, we seldom report such on our website)
This year to date, and not including a large number of operational deployments within Bolton MRT / attended by the Bolton MRT, Dave and Sasha have deployed operationally ‘elsewhere’ five times, the furthest this year on the mainland being a search in the Dumfries area of Dumfries and Galloway, and over the water on a three day long search operation in Enniskillin, Northern Ireland.
Steve and Boris, very often in the company of Elaine, have deployed operationally ‘elsewhere’ from operations with Bolton MRT, fifteen times this year to date.
Within Bolton MRT, team call out list member Jess Ellsmore, after an intense and comprehensive (continuing) training period, with her dog Blitz, is now close to going forward for operational grading in the New Year as a Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Dog Handler with Blitz – for which all the team membership wish Jess and Blitz well.
By Steven Fletcher • General news