by admin | Dec 6, 2015 | Training
This morning team member Jess Ellsmore, who is in the final stages of training with her dog Blitz, to be a SARDA England Mountain Rescue Search Dog Handler / Search Dog team, went straight from her overnight and early morning involvement with the team in Lancaster /... by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | Training
Today our very experienced DVSD Search Dog Handler David Marsh (who has been a former long serving Mountain Rescue Air Scenting Search Dog Handler within Bolton MRT) journeys to Northern Ireland, where he will be involved in SARDA Ireland North Search Dog assessments... by admin | Dec 2, 2015 | Training
Organised by our Equipment Officer – Water David Cook, tonight’s weekly exercise took place within the hillside Terraced Gardens at Rivington. The ‘real time’ exercise scenario concerned the team being called out to the report from NWAS of a confused male in the... by admin | Nov 22, 2015 | Training
With other team members taking part today in Exercise Autumn Gold, four team operational members travelled to our neighbour’s Base / Headquarters of Rossendale & Pendle MRT at Clegg Street, Haslingden, to take part in the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)... by admin | Nov 22, 2015 | Training
Following a successful joint day exercise last year on Sunday 16th November 2014 (see website ‘News’ report dated the same) this year we repeated the same exercise format with Exercise Autumn Gold which took place today. Organised and planned jointly between our... by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Training
Tonights exercise tested the teams expertise in problem solving and dealing with difficult extrications. Organised by Paul Brain, the team members were split into two groups, with a casualty for each group to attend to. With the vehicle RVP situated at Abbey Village,...