by admin | Sep 12, 2012 | Donations, General news
Readers may recall that in early July this year we were involved alongside GMP and other search assets in the search for a missing young man, Christopher Brahney, who had attended the Stone Roses Concert at Heaton Park on the evening of Friday 29th June 2012, and...
by admin | Sep 12, 2012 | General news
Regards our October 2012 potential new team member recruitment intake, for persons interested in joining the operational team membership, we can report that to date we have now received eleven applications of interest via our online application form, with (so far)...
by admin | Sep 11, 2012 | General news
On Friday evening September 7th, four team members, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, Diane Blakeley, Chris Tennant and Life Vice President Alan James took the bold step for three native Lancastrians and in the case of Chris Tennant, an honorary Lancastrian, of...
by admin | Sep 10, 2012 | General news
The continued valued support of Bury Lions Club and our attendance at the Bury Lions Club Carnival has now become an integral part of the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team calendar. So it was with great anticipation that long serving and very experienced Team member Mark...
by admin | Sep 10, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 10.51hrs this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by Lancashire Constabulary Force Incident Manager, with a request for the teams specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Boris (And his handler of course) to join in a search taking place...
by admin | Sep 6, 2012 | General news
Regards our October 2012 potential new members recruitment intake, we can report that to date we have received 10 applications of interest via our online application form, with (so far) one confirmed attendee. So far all the applications have been of a very high...
by admin | Sep 6, 2012 | General news
Regular readers may recall that we recently donated some surplus equipment items to our colleages in the ALSAR team, Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue. We also pledged to donate free of charge our existing Control Trailer to NORLSAR once our new-build Control Vehicle...
by admin | Sep 5, 2012 | Donations, General news
On Friday evening, 20th April 2012, the Team played hosts to a visit of the 1st Upholland Scout Group and their leaders. Sixteen Scouts together with their leaders and some family members were welcomed to the Team’s headquarters by Team Life Vice President, Tony...
by admin | Sep 2, 2012 | General news
Today, team member Dave Marsh along with his trainee Drowned Victim Search Dog Sasha, travelled across to the sunny climes of Austerfield [South East of Doncaster]. Dave, attending in his official capacity of Secretary of the National Search and Rescue Dog Association...
by admin | Sep 2, 2012 | General news
During the course of the last few days, team call out list member Dave Marsh has had the opportunity to train alongside members of the Greater Manchester Police’s Dog Section. As avid readers of this site will know, Dave is training his dog Sasha to locate...