by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our January 2015 month end collection box figures, with £119.43 collected, against £256.22 for January 2014. We currently have 115x collection boxes out and about in the team’s operational area and with a small number of individual... by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | General news
Last Wednesday, 28th January, we reported within the ‘News’ section of our website on the awareness training visit to Bristow / HM Coastguard Humberside, to view and train with the new Sikorsky S92A aircraft to be based there, taking over the current military and HMCG... by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | General news
This evening, sees the culmination of many weeks – indeed three months of training, with our six remaining ‘Probationary’ members from our Late October 2014 recruitment intake, progressing to ‘Trainee Team Membership’ of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Their probationary... by admin | Feb 4, 2015 | General news
On Sunday 11th January 2015, the team was involved in a sad incident when Fred Miley, a member of Halton Ramblers, fatally collapsed whilst on a hill walk on Spitlers Edge (Please see website ‘News’ report, Incident 20 dated the same) Along with NWAS, NWAA and... by admin | Feb 2, 2015 | General news
On Tuesday 31st March 2015, the Bolton MRT will be attending the ‘Emergency 999’ ‘Show and Tell’ event being held at LFRS Training Centre, Washington Hall, Euxton Lane, Chorley, Lancashire. This event which is not open to the public, is a multi agency ‘Show and Tell’... by admin | Jan 31, 2015 | General news
Readers may recall that on Wednesday night, 28th January, we held an exercise centred upon the high moorland car park of Hordern Stoops, which due to thunder, snow and strong winds had to be abandoned part way through. With the terrible weather conditions prevailing...