Off-road driving – Lancs Fire

Off-road driving – Lancs Fire

On Friday (and also Saturday 8th November), the team was invited to join a Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service four-wheel off-road driving update course for active fire-fighters. Darwen is fortunate to use one of the three fire service Landrover vehicles in...
Off-road driving – Lancs Fire

Donation from Cumbria…

The team received a truly astonishing donation of £2,500.00 from The Sir James & Lady Scott Trust” of Kendal, Cumbria, towards building works at our GMAS provided, Ladybridge base/headquarters developement. The trust has also financially supported us...
Off-road driving – Lancs Fire

Cheers, Vodafone!

Our thanks are expressed to Vodafone for upgrading the Team’s mobile phones to modern state of the art phones, free of charge. Now what Garry our Team Leader doesn’t yet realise is that we can now use his phone as an Internet gateway, whilst on those long...
Off-road driving – Lancs Fire

GMAS RRV’s visit BMRT

Tuesday saw Paramedic Paul Moss of GMAS, attend our Bolton Fire Station base in the third visit by RRV Paramedic vehicle crews. Again 8 Team members were present as Paul was shown our casualty care equipment, then he got dispatched on a job returning some 30 mins...
Off-road driving – Lancs Fire

Incidents 78-81/2003

At 19:25 on Sunday, the team was contacted by GMAS control, who requested the team’s assistance for general ambulance calls at a time of excesive demand on the ambulance service. The team mobilised its 4 landrover ambulances immediately, which were crewed by...