by admin | Mar 27, 2014 | 2014, General news, Incident
Early this evening, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Boris, his Handler Steve Nelson (A member of SARDA Wales) and colleague Bolton MRT team member Elaine Gilliland (Steve’s usual navigator) were called out to lend their assistance to a search in Cumbria for a... by admin | Mar 27, 2014 | General news
This evening, our Trainee Air Scenting Search Dog Handler, Paul Chisholm, with Bella, took part in his ‘usual’ Thursday evening Search Dog training with Calder Valley SRT. Bolton MRT team member Chris Weatherhead joined Paul in tonight’s... by admin | Mar 27, 2014 | General news
Today Bolton MRT Team member Dave Marsh, who our regular readers will know is currently in the latter stages of training a Drowned Victim Search Dog (Sasha) travelled across the waters to Northern Ireland. Dave will take part in further DVSD training up to Sunday 30th... by admin | Mar 26, 2014 | 2014, Incident
During our AGM and Election of Team Officers (2nd Part) this evening, at 20.12hrs our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was informed by GMP of a developing search operation in the Bolton area for a missing 88 year old woman, which might have led to the team’s... by admin | Mar 26, 2014 | General news
This evening, commencing at 20.00hrs, forty one team members, including 37x Full Team Call Out list members and 4x members of our Support Group, jointly attended the continuation of our Annual General Meeting and our Election of Council Officers held at our Ladybridge... by admin | Mar 26, 2014 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the receipt of a kind donation of £150.00 from Greater Manchester Police via GMP Bolton Division. The Bolton MRT membership wishes to extend its grateful thanks to GMP for this kind donation. by admin | Mar 26, 2014 | Donations, General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received in the post two very kind donations amounting to £150.00 in memory of the late Mrs Eugenie May Jenkins, who lived in Horwich. These donations were accompanied by a letter from Mr Andrew Jenkins, the grandson of the late... by admin | Mar 25, 2014 | General news
Yet again, the Bolton MRT wishes to extend its kind thanks to the Fire Brigade Society for two complimentary copies of their latest interesting and informative journal, ‘Fire Cover,’ Issue no.203, February 2014, The Official Journal of the Fire Brigade Society. The... by admin | Mar 23, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 17.25hrs this sunny but cold early evening, we were paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Parkway EOC requesting the team’s assistance with an incident in the Hag Fold area of Atherton. The call was answered by Team Call Out Contact Steve Fletcher, who alongside... by admin | Mar 23, 2014 | General news
The Bolton MRT wishes to extend its congratulations to Chris Griffiths, the newly elected Team Leader of NEWSAR Team. Chris is a long standing friend of Bolton MRT, particularly familiar to our members from his assistance over the years on our Annual Joint Foundation...