by admin | Oct 20, 2014 | General news
Today our Secretary Gillian Gregory received the following email of thanks from husband and wife, Chris and Jill Rank, Cheshire SART Trainees who attended this weekends Foundation Course ; “Dear Bolton MRT, I would just like to say a big thank you again to Garry and... by admin | Oct 20, 2014 | General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following email from Chris Griffiths, Team Leader of North East Wales Search and Rescue Team; “Garry, just a quick note to say many thanks once again for a superbly organised and presented course. Everyone who... by admin | Oct 19, 2014 | Training
For the tenth year running, starting on Friday evening 17th October and running through to the late afternoon of Sunday 19th October, the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team organised and took part in a fully residential Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue based at the... by admin | Oct 15, 2014 | General news
With the opening of our team once more to operational membership recruitment, as a result of our having a limited number of current vacancies, we published a website ‘News’ item on Tuesday 9th September 2014. We can report that to date we have now received thirteen... by admin | Oct 15, 2014 | General news, Training
This afternoon, an exercise took place at the Heliport part of City Airport and Heliport Manchester (Barton) to test the emergency procedures in place at the airport. The scenario of an aircraft incident at the Heliport was played out, with multiple casualties, and... by admin | Oct 15, 2014 | General news
All directly related to training taking place within the team, tonight saw twenty four team members all involved at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ with preparation tasks in advance of this weekends Annual Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue which we not only organise... by admin | Oct 13, 2014 | General news, Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Tonight we were pleased to welcome to our base 6th Farnworth St George’s Scout Group. The group of 13 scouts and 5 leaders were met at our Ladybridge base by experienced Team members Gill Leigh, Matthew Hailwood, Paul Copley (Equipment Officer – Base and... by admin | Oct 12, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 11.37hrs this morning we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton, Air Desk despatcher, regards our assistance at an incident in the Tockholes area. Co-incidentally at the same time some members were en route to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to carry out some... by admin | Oct 12, 2014 | General news, Training
This morning, our trainee mountain rescue air scenting search dog handler Jess Ellsmore, and her trainee dog Blitz, were in the Yorkshire Dales, carrying out some search dog training with colleagues from Upper Wharfedale MRT, in the Austwick area. Assisting Jess was... by admin | Oct 11, 2014 | General news
Our regular readers will know that Bolton MRT had been shortlisted for the Lloyds Bank Community Fund 2014 in the north-Bolton / Blackburn area. By encouraging the public to vote, Bolton Mountain Rescue Team had a chance to be awarded a grant of up to £3,000.00 from...