by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | General news
The Bolton MRT would once again like to extend its belated thanks to our colleagues at Bowland Pennine MRT for allowing us the use of their ‘Winter Hill Radio Repeater Channel’ on our mountain rescue radio handsets, during our recent run of call outs...
by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 00.30hrs in the early hours of this morning, Kinder MRT were called out to help Derbyshire Constabulary in the search for a local male resident who had gone missing from the New Mills area. The search intensified over the next 14 hours with many different Mountain...
by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | General news
Not previously reported, is the great news that at the SARDA (Wales) Training and Assessment weekend over this last snowy weekend, our specialist Search Dog handler Steve Nelson and his Trailing Dog Boris, were graded after an intensive and exacting assessment to Full...
by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | Donations, General news
We are very happy to report the receipt today of a very kind and wonderful £120.00 donation from our long standing friends and supporters at Darwen Dashers Running Club. On Friday evening, 22nd February this year, the team provided standby rescue cover for the...
by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | Donations, General news
On 2nd August 2011 the team visited the Kings Club, Christ Church, Harwood, at Top O’th Brow School, to explain a little about our work as a Mountain Rescue Team at the Kings Club. The Kings Club is a week of activities for primary aged children organised and...
by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | General news
On Wednesday 13th March 2013, we reported on twenty two team members taking part in the written examination for their MREW Mountain Rescue Casualty Care Course, the culmination of many months of training and study, held within the teams training programme. Eighteen...
by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | General news
This evening the team formally welcomed eight new Trainee Call Out list members into the team. All eight had originally joined our October 2012 Team membership recruitment session, and were taken on as ‘Probationary Team members,’ for the time since....
by admin | Mar 25, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Acting in response to information possibly leading to the teams likely involvement, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE contacted the GMP Force Duty Manager at 18.48hrs, to find out that co-incidentally the Force Duty Manager was just about to contact Garry to call out...
by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | 2013, Incident
As the previous incident was concluding, we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton, regarding an incident unfolding in the Rivington area. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE liaised with the Air Ambulance Despatch desk at NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton,...
by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Today with the wintry conditions persisting, all four of our Team Land Rovers were out and about in the team area, with a total of ten team members aboard. At 14.38hrs we were contacted both via the SARCALL platform system and pager by Lancashire Constabulary, for...