by admin | Oct 15, 2003 | General news
A cold Wednesday evening exercise location on the very summit of Winter Hill, saw the team presented with our second “Training Dummy”, more correctly known as a Casualty Simulator, this time in the guise of an adult sized version, known as JoePublic....
by admin | Oct 12, 2003 | General news
28 team members, with our four team vehicles (and Dave Healey’s vehicle, in use as a radio link), provided Standby rescue Cover for the “Weavers Off Road Half Marathon” fell race, starting through the Tockholes plantations, and up onto Turton and...
by admin | Oct 11, 2003 | 2003, Incident
At 15:40, GMAS called out the team to assist with a 25 year old male, with a reported fractured ankle, the location being Wardley Wood on the Worsley / Swinton boundary. At 15:53 the team was stood down, with one Landrover Ambulance and a large number of team members...
by admin | Oct 8, 2003 | General news
Whilst half the team were at Manchester Airport, the rest were taking part in a typically wet autumn nights training exercise, alongside the latest recruit to the team. A chance meeting, whilst we were at the recent Bolton Fire Station open day, saw Phil Frain, the Co...
by admin | Oct 8, 2003 | General news
Tonight’s training session saw 16 Team members travel to Manchester International Airport, to have a presentation from Leading Fire Fighter Paul Johnson, White Watch, on various aspects of aircraft scene preservation and also personal protection at an aircraft...
