by admin | Sep 9, 2014 | General news
We are pleased to have received the following very kind comments via our Facebook pages, in regards to our involvement in Incident 79 of Sunday 7th September 2014, when we dealt, alongside NWAS and NWAA, with a seriously injured mountain biker at Roddlesworth ; From...
by admin | Sep 9, 2014 | General news
In the teams very early days a solitary cloth badge constituted the teams uniform / identity. In June 1985, a Team woollen sweater was introduced in to the membership, dark blue with two light blue chest stripes ….. and current team member Mike Marsh and our Team...
by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | Donations, General news
Regular readers of our website may be aware of the support given to the team by Susan Rigby of SK-Art Photography, who has been a long-standing supporter of the Bolton MRT. Recently Susan contacted the team to let us know of her wish to hand over a donation arising as...
by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news, Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This afternoon Bolton MRT team member Jess Ellsmore and trainee search dog Blitz returned from the SARDA England training weekend held at Ingleton, in the Yorkshire Dales. A more detailed report on this weekend will appear here shortly from trainee air-scenting...
by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news
Early this afternoon, immediately following the conclusion of incident 79/2014, six team members took our 3.4m long semi-rigid inflatable SAR boat out onto the waters of High Rid reservoir, Bolton, with the primary aim of continuing the “running in” period...
by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news
We’re now aware that two other UK search & rescue organisations (in addition to ourselves) are all in the running for a local grant of up to £3,000 from the Lloyds Community Fund. Our colleagues at Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and Norfolk Lowland Search &...