by admin | Jan 11, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 12.35hrs early this afternoon the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC, Airdesk Despatcher, to respond to an incident at the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir. Our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon answered the call, and at 12.39hrs a full team pager Call...
by admin | Jan 11, 2014 | General news
Early this morning at 06.00hrs seven team members met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to journey to the Ogwen Valley, Snowdonia, for some winter mountaineering – hoping that such conditions were present. Team Call Out list members Alistair Greenhough, Doctor...
by admin | Jan 11, 2014 | General news
The Bolton MRT membership wishes to extend its best wishes to Dave McClure on his retirement from Cheshire SART. Over his years with Cheshire SART, Dave in regards to his ‘day job’ at Warrington Hospital, has assisted and helped on many occasion’s to...
by admin | Jan 8, 2014 | General news
This evening team members gathered at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ in heavy rain for our first evening exercise of this New Year. Setting off at 19.40hrs the heavy rain was not for relenting, and just got worse as our Team Vehicles arrived at 20.00hrs at the exercise...
by admin | Jan 8, 2014 | General news
Today we have received a kind ‘Guestbook’ entry within our website, which is also recorded here, from GMP Missing Person Search Manager Chris Moody, regarding the teams role in the search for a missing man in the Northenden / Wythenshawe area of...
by admin | Jan 5, 2014 | 2014, Incident
This morning, Four Team Support Group members and many Call Out list members met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to take down our many Christmas Decorations, and carry out a multitude of minor tasks to get the team in the best shape to enter 2014 – bearing in...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Our first search operation Call Out of 2014 came in to the team today, when at 15.34hrs we were contacted via SARCALL to assist GMP with a search operation for a missing 50 years old man in the Northenden / Wythenshawe area of South Manchester. The man was missing in...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | General news
The whole team membership extends Birthday Congratulations to our President Bob Hutchinson, on reaching the grand (Webmaster; Old) age of the Big 70 Bob, or Robert S. Hutchinson to give him his Sunday best name, joined the team in 1980, and was our Team Leader from...
by admin | Jan 3, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Today our Team Equipment Officer (Water) whilst in the company of a member of NEWSAR Team received a request to join and assist the NEWSAR Team in their response to the possibility of flooding events occurring in North Wales. The following is an account of what...
by admin | Jan 3, 2014 | Donations, General news
On Thursday 2nd January 2014, our Team Secretary, Gillian Gregory, called at the Saddle Public House in Horwich, to make one of her regular checks on our collection tins located in the local community. The licensee, John Manson, hunted high and low for the tin,...