by admin | Nov 8, 2012 | General news
In 2011, Her Majesty’s Government announced an annual grant to be utilised for team search and rescue equipment purposes, open to all teams within Mountain Rescue England and Wales, our national representative body. The grant from HMG administered and... by admin | Nov 7, 2012 | General news
This evening, the ten people taken on at our October 2012 new team member recruitment intake, commenced their ‘Probationary Team Member’ training period with the team, which will see them attending specific training activities each Wednesday evening, prior... by admin | Nov 7, 2012 | General news
Christmas is still a while off yet but we have already been invited by two very kind groups to receive donations around Christmas time, in aid of the work of the Bolton MRT. St Georges Holy Royal Arch Masons Chapter No. 1723 wish to present us with a very supportive... by admin | Nov 6, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 19.29hrs this damp evening, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre to respond to an incident in the Wigan area. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE who gathered further information from NWAS ECC and then paged out the full... by admin | Nov 5, 2012 | General news
On Monday 22nd October 2012, we reported that we had reached 1.3x million hits on our website since going ‘live’ on 1st October 2001. Today barely two weeks later we’ve had an amazing further 12,675 hits (At the time of writing) so a big thanks to... by admin | Nov 4, 2012 | General news
Today saw the conclusion of this years MREW National Mountain Rescue Party Leader Training Course weekend, kindly facilitated this year by Swaledale MRT. The course held at Wathgill Training Camp, near Catterick, North Yorkshire, attracted trainees from many UK MRTs.... by admin | Nov 4, 2012 | General news
On Saturday 25th October 2003 we commissioned into team service our Land Rover Defender 110 TD5 Ambulance MV03KYE ’Bolton Mobile 4’, as a direct replacement at the time for an elderly Renault Minibus operated by the team. This vehicle, which was our fourth... by admin | Nov 4, 2012 | 2012, Incident
In the continuation of the previous days search, (See Incident 77) our SARDA (Wales) specialist Trailing Search Dog Boris, along with his handler, Bolton MRT member Steve Nelson, was called out to assist in the operation this morning, leaving his Bury home at 08.45hrs... by admin | Nov 4, 2012 | General news
Today team member Paul Chisholm, whilst on the SARDA (England) Search Dog training weekend, where he was present as an ‘exercise casualty – dogs body,’ learnt that the SARDA (England) Committee had sat on Saturday night, 3rd November, and having... by admin | Nov 3, 2012 | 2012, Incident
Whilst three Bolton MRT team members were taking part in the MREW National Mountain Rescue Party Leaders Course today at Wathgill Training Camp, near Catterick, facilitated by Swaledale MRT, (Two as staff members, our Training Officer Elaine Gilliland and IT...