by admin | Oct 8, 2014 | General news
This evening, following the retirement from post of the previous holder of the office, we held a Special General Meeting to elect a new Team Training Officer, commencing at 20.00hrs at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ. Our elected Chairman Craig Lamb was unable to... by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At circa 15.15hrs this afternoon, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson, was contacted for assistance with a search for a missing male in the South Cumbria area. Setting off for the Millom area at 16.00hrs with Trailing Search Dog Boris,... by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | General news
This evening the team welcomed a visit to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ by twelve members of St Anne’s with St James’ Mothers Union. Arriving for a 19.30hrs start, they were met by Team Call Out list members David Cook (Our Equipment Officer – Water) and John... by admin | Oct 7, 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 twelve... by admin | Oct 6, 2014 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce our September month end 2014 collection box figures, with £375.23p collected, against £324.33p for September 2013. Our year to date Collection Box total is £2,431.76p compared to £2,066.52p for this time last year. We currently have... by admin | Oct 6, 2014 | General news, Training
On Thursday 2nd October we reported on the I.S.A.C. Training Course, held at Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service HQ and Training School, Winsford, attended by team members David Crawford and David Cook. There follows a personal report on this great training day by Team... by admin | Oct 6, 2014 | General news, Training
The following is a short report made by our newly operationally qualified and graded DVSD Dog Handler Dave Marsh ; “So, after a training period of two years, it was left to Dave and Sasha to travel back across to Northern Ireland once again to complete their... by admin | Oct 6, 2014 | Donations, General news
Our regular readers will know that Bolton MRT has 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 has a chance to be awarded a grant of up to £3,000.00 from... by admin | Oct 5, 2014 | General news
At 15.29hrs this sunny and warm afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC Air Desk, regarding our assistance being required. The pager request was answered by Team Call Out Contact Steve Fletcher, who was informed the incident involved an... by admin | Oct 5, 2014 | General news
This afternoon saw team member and Trainee Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Search Dog Handler Jess Ellsmore return with her Trainee Dog Blitz, from this months SARDA England training exercise, held within the Oldham MRTs operational area.