by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Training
This evening, our Team Life Vice President (And founder team member in 1968!) Alan James ably assisted by team member Steve O’Hara, presented our membership with an evening exercise scenario of a missing father and his two daughters, last seen near to a large lake in... by admin | Sep 4, 2014 | Training
Last nights Wednesday evening weekly exercise was organised by our Equipment Officer – Water, Dave Cook, and gave those involved at the ‘exercise’ casualty site a problem we do not normally encounter. The exercise commenced within the car park of Dunscar Golf Club in... by admin | Aug 27, 2014 | General news, Training
This cool and windy Wednesday evening, our exercise involved a female geologist who was reported to be injured whilst examining the boulder fields on Turton Moor. Readers familiar with Turton Moor may know there are two large boulder fields present, Andrew’s... by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | Training
This evening our weekly training exercise took the form of a typical urban rescue scenario, as we often get called upon to assist at by NWAS. Organised jointly by our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh and Call Out list member Paul Copley, it started with an... by admin | Aug 17, 2014 | Training
This morning, our Team Chairman Craig Lamb and Team Equipment Officer (Medical) Nigel Booth, carried out some personal rope rescue training, based upon the equipment carried within our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance radio callsign ‘Bolton Mobile 1.’ (Which is... by admin | Aug 14, 2014 | Training
On Wednesday evening 13th August, our weekly training exercise took place on an unseasonal cold Winter Hill, not only was it cold but it was very wet underfoot from recent heavy rains. Twenty four Call Out operational members and one Trainee Team member attended,...