by admin | Jul 14, 2013 | General news
This morning saw the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team hosting a joint exercise involving our friends and colleagues in teams from the Association of Lowland Search and Rescue, Mountain Rescue England and Wales, and a specialist medical and extrication team. Organised by... by admin | Jul 13, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 13.48hrs this sunny and very warm early afternoon, we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC Air Desk despatcher, regards an incident at Rivington, involving a male with a reported leg injury. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, and... by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | General news
At around 21:00 this evening two of our experienced team members, Mike Marsh and Steve Fletcher were out at Lead Mines Clough, as leaders with the 25th Bolton Scout Group, who were out on an activity in the area. As they returned to the road at Alance Bridge at the... by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | General news
This Sunday will see Bolton Mountain Rescue Team hosting a joint exercise involving our friends and colleagues in teams from the Association of Lowland Search and Rescue, Mountain Rescue England and Wales, and a specialist medical and extrication team. Organised by... by admin | Jul 9, 2013 | General news
On Monday 1st July 2013, we reported within our website that we were now actively seeking recruitment to our Support Group. We have had a small number of enquiries to join, one being from an already established valued team supporter in the Bury area. Our Support Group... by admin | Jul 8, 2013 | General news
On Thursday 4th July 2013, we reported within our website, that just before midnight on Wednesday 3rd July 2013, we moved a team vehicle in to garage premises at GMFRS Bolton North Fire Station, kindly provided by GMFRS. Our report at the time mentioned that we were... by admin | Jul 7, 2013 | General news
For the fourth year running, the team today accepted the invitation by City Airport Manchester (Barton) to display at their ever increasingly popular Aviation Family Fun Day and Aircraft Fly In Event. Meeting at 08.45hrs bleary eyed team members met at our Ladybridge... by admin | Jul 7, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Directly related to incident 79/2013 which was conducted in the early hours of the morning, at 08:36 today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted by Lancashire Constabulary, regards the team lending assistance to the required daylight investigation of this... by admin | Jul 7, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Unrelated to incident 79/2013, at 02:08 this morning, during the concluding parts of incident 79/2013, two male youths presented themselves to a Police Officer and our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE at the A666 Incident Road head RVP. They required assistance as one of... by admin | Jul 7, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Following the receipt of a 999 call by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC after midnight, and the subsequent despatch of an Emergency Ambulance and NWAS contacting Lancashire Constabulary, at 00:28 the Bolton MRT was paged for an incident initially reported to us to be...