by admin | Apr 1, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 08:36 on this very nice morning the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre who were requesting our assistance at an incident in Harwood, Bolton. Senior team member Mike Marsh contacted NWAS Manchester to get the details of the incident, which... by admin | Mar 31, 2012 | General news
Today the team attended the GO Outdoors store in Warrington, at the invitation of Managing Director John Graham and to represent Mountain Rescue England & Wales. GO Outdoors are supporting Mountain Rescue England & Wales (MREW) at a national level, with many... by admin | Mar 28, 2012 | General news
In line with many other areas in the United Kingdom that at now facing increasing risk from large ‘Wildfires,’ (In this area grass and moorland fires) Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service after considerable work on the subject, decided to form a Lancashire... by admin | Mar 28, 2012 | General news
This afternoon our President Bob Hutchinson and Life Vice President Tony McNally visited the Beech Hill, Wigan, plant of Milliken Industrials Ltd. The visit was to present a plaque to the Company as a token of thanks and gratitude for their provision of carpet tiles... by admin | Mar 28, 2012 | General news
This weekend, team member Steve Nelson and his dog Boris gained the SARDA grading of Novice Search dog, here follows an account by Steve of the journey to this point. As I followed Boris round the corner of the Boathouse at the side of Llyn Padarn and I saw the feet... by admin | Mar 27, 2012 | General news
This evening, long serving and very experienced team Call Out list member Fred Taylor has left the team, due to increasing full time work commitments. Fred aged 63, of Swinton, first joined the team in April 2002, and brought to the team a considerable amount of... by admin | Mar 25, 2012 | General news
This evening at 19:53 our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by the Southern Communications Room of Lancashire Constabulary, enquiring whether the team was on exercise using flares around the Winter Hill area as they were investigating reports of... by admin | Mar 25, 2012 | General news
This report is written by team member Diane Blakeley I work as an Advanced Skills ICT Teacher at Wellfield Business & Enterprise College in Leyland. Today a fundraiser was held to raise money to send one of my Year 9 students, Jamie Turner and his family... by admin | Mar 25, 2012 | General news
Further to the initial report made on Saturday 24th March 2012 (See website ‘News’ report dated the same) Team Call Out list member Gill Leigh reports below on the success of today’s excellent exercise: “This weekend several Bolton Mountain... by admin | Mar 25, 2012 | General news
For a great many years now, on a great many searches, the Bolton MRT has called upon the superb Search Dog Team of Handler Iain Nicholson and his specialist Trailing Dog Mij, both of Bowland Pennine MRT / SARDA Wales. We are sad to report today that after seven years...