by admin | Aug 17, 2014 | Training
This morning, our Team Chairman Craig Lamb and Team Equipment Officer (Medical) Nigel Booth, carried out some personal rope rescue training, based upon the equipment carried within our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance radio callsign ‘Bolton Mobile 1.’ (Which is... by admin | Aug 16, 2014 | Safety Cover
Today the team provided standby rescue cover for the annual Darwen Gala Fell Race, held as part of the Darwen Gala. This year the Fell Race was organised by Darwen Running Group and was titled ; Darwen Running Group Catherine Dowdall Darwen Gala Memorial Fell Race. A... by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | Training
On Wednesday evening 13th August, our weekly training exercise took place on an unseasonal cold Winter Hill, not only was it cold but it was very wet underfoot from recent heavy rains. Twenty four Call Out operational members and one Trainee Team member attended,... by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | Training
Not previously reported on our website, was the recent attendance by team member Jess Ellsmore on the SARDA England training weekend held on Dartmoor on Saturday 2nd / Sunday 3rd August. Jess is a recently accepted trainee Air Scenting Mountain Rescue Dog Handler with... by admin | Aug 11, 2014 | General news
Once again, the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team wishes to extend its grateful thanks to the Fire Brigade Society for two complimentary copies of their latest interesting and informative journal, ‘Fire Cover,’ Issue no.205, August 2014, The Official Journal of the Fire... by admin | Aug 9, 2014 | General news
Further to our involvement in a large scale search operation to locate a missing man centred upon the Abram / Bryn Gates area of Wigan, on Thursday 7th August 2014 (See Incident Report 77 – 2014) we understand that yesterday morning GMP were alerted to a body found... by admin | Aug 9, 2014 | Training
Today and tomorrow sees our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog team of Handler Steve Nelson, Navigator Elaine Gilliland and of course the star of the group, Trailing Search Dog Boris, all at the monthly SARDA Wales training weekend in North Wales. by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | General news
This morning at 10.02hrs we were paged by Lancashire Constabulary who were specifically requesting the services of our specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Boris. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, who ascertained the request was to provide... by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following kind email from Gethin Curzon, the organiser of the highly successful (Greater Manchester) Emergency Services Open Day event yesterday, at intu Trafford Centre, Manchester sent to all those who had... by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | General news
We are very pleased to announce the receipt today of a kind and generous £50.00 donation from a great local supporter of mountain rescue including the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, who wishes to remain anonymous. We continue to be grateful to this kind person for such...