Police reward Bolton Mountain Rescue Team for their outstanding search effort

Excercise “Pandora”

Organised by the Bolton Emergency Response Group Forum, with help from the GMP Emergency Planning Unit, the team was represented at exercise Pandora, an emergency planning exercise. Taking place at the Watermillock, Bolton. The exercise entailed a scenario of a Bolton...
Police reward Bolton Mountain Rescue Team for their outstanding search effort

Incident 20/2005

With overnight snow falls leading to early morning snow and icy road conditions, GMAS contacted the Team Leader at 07:45 hours regarding the availibilty of the team if needed to immediately assist GMAS in view of the wintry conditions existing and forecasted. Shortly...
Police reward Bolton Mountain Rescue Team for their outstanding search effort

Incident 19/2005

A Sunday evening callout to round off a very busy weekend for the team, which started on Friday and resulted in 3 spot pick-ups. At 19:04 we were contacted by LANCON on behalf of LAS to attend an incident initially reported to be in the area of the Top Barn, Lever...
Police reward Bolton Mountain Rescue Team for their outstanding search effort

Incident 18/2005

The team was contacted at 12:49 by GMAS to attend a moorland incident where a woman hillwalker was reported to have injured her ankle. 12 team members in 3 team vehicles responded very quickly, to arrive at the Pike Cottage, Georges Lane RVP at the same time as the...