by admin | Dec 4, 2015 | General news
We offer our best wishes to now former GMFRS Station Manager Wayne Guffogg on his recent retirement from GMFRS after 31 years service starting with GMCFS which became GMFRS. Wayne in the last few years of his long service in GMFRS, was the Station Manager for Horwich... by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | General news
Now held twice yearly, the GMESLG serves to unite all the Statutory Emergency Services working in Greater Manchester with the Mountain Rescue Teams which assist them, discussing procedures, incidents, developments and items of mutual interest. The participating... by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following very kind email from Leanne Postlethwaite, of Darwen Dashers Running Club, the organiser of this years David Staff Memorial Race, held on Sunday 29th November 2015 upon Darwen Moor; “Hi Garry and the team,... 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 3, 2015 | General news
This evening saw our last scheduled Team Council Meeting of 2015. All twelve of our elected Officers attended, including newly elected Steve James, our Equipment Officer – Medical. Current Team Chairman Craig Lamb and Current Team Training Officer Alistair Greenough,... 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 | Dec 2, 2015 | Donations
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received in the post, another Christmas Card to the team membership. This Christmas Card was from a very dear and long standing special friend of the team, who is known to the team membership, but always wishes to remain publicly... by admin | Dec 1, 2015 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our November 2015 month end collection box figures, with £370.54 collected, against £279.98 for November 2014. The total so far for 2015 is £3,362.16 compared with £2,928.17 for the same period in 2014. We currently have 106x collection... by admin | Nov 30, 2015 | General news
The team’s website ‘News’ features are linked directly to our Facebook and Twitter sites, but supporters and followers of the team may have wondered where our regular tweets have gone too over the last five weeks? Unfortunately we’ve had an IT technical issue,... by admin | Nov 30, 2015 | General news
The end of November and already we have two Christmas cards delivered to the team – Former long serving team call out list member (and one time local Vicar) Mike Thomason has sent our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE Christmas wishes and thoughts to his former team...