by admin | Apr 19, 2003 | General news
Easter Saturday 19th April and the fine weather of yesterday was replaced by colder, windier weather of today for the annual Rivington Pike Fell Race. As usual we provided Standby Rescue Cover for this event, including both the Junior & Senior (over 200 runners)...
by admin | Apr 18, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Good Friday April 18th LAS telephoned the Team for assistance with an injured Female rambler at Wayoh reservoir, Turton. Already at the Rivington Pike Good Friday celebrations, so it saw a quick deployment of Team vehicles to Turton. But we were hampered by the...
by admin | Apr 18, 2003 | General news
Saw 22 Team members present, with Team vehicles, in the Rivington Pike area, for the busy ’Pike Fair’ annual celebrations, attracting thousands to the area. Blessed with very warm, sunny weather, avoiding grass fires, finding missing children (well we had...
by admin | Apr 16, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Wednesday 16th April saw our usual Team Training night, replaced with our first Call from GMCFS. During the day GMCFS had been dealing with many moorland fires, at one time up to 20 appliances had been deployed. As the evening started to draw in we were asked to...
by admin | Apr 13, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Barely 1 hour after leaving our Base and heading for home, we were called again by Lancashire Police for a search for a missing 8 year old male in the area of Roddlesworth. The young lad had gone for a walk with his family and had got separate in the woodland. Just as...
