by admin | May 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 19:03 this evening our Team Leader was contacted by Greater Manchester Police Force Duty Manager for the team’s urgent assistance with a search operation rapidly escalating for a missing 4 year old male in the Warth Fold area of Bury. A full team pager callout was...
by admin | May 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Whilst members were en-route back to our base at the conclusion of our involvement with the Horwich New Heart event, we were paged at 16:14 by NWAS Greater Manchester to attend an incident in the Hindley area with the report of a female walker having fractured her...
by admin | May 18, 2008 | General news
Every year the team supports the Horwich New Heart Pike event which is a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund. The team provides standby rescue cover for this event which traditionally has involved some walkers who have had heart...
by admin | May 16, 2008 | General news
This evening saw the team holding its 40th Annual Team Dinner, for the second time at the excellent venue of Dunscar Golf Club, Bolton. (Although rather confusingly, the team’s actual 40th Anniversary Dinner will be May 2009!) Organised very capably by team...
by admin | May 14, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Whilst team members were en-route to our usual Wednesday evening outdoor training event, we became aware of an urgent search operation commencing on the shores of Anglezarke Reservoir for a missing man in the water. Our involvement in this incident commenced at 19:46...
