by admin | Jun 16, 2002 | General news
Our work for the Commonwealth Games has now started, with the team already providing Standby Rescue covers for two Mountain Bike practice events. During the day we were called to two incidents. The first, at 09:35, involved an event marshall who had twisted her ankle....
by admin | Jun 14, 2002 | General news
During torrential rainfall, the team was put on standby by both GMAS and LAS. Apparently 51mm of rain fell that day. The average for June is 41mm over 2 weeks! Whilst the team was on standby in Westhoughton, we were only called to attend one incident, involving a...
by admin | Jun 13, 2002 | General news
Today Mrs. Christine Noone, together with her daughter and several of her friends, visited our Overdale base. Christine had recently presented to the team a substantial sum of money in memory of her late husband, Peter. It had been the specific request of Christine...
by admin | Jun 8, 2002 | General news
Over three separate evenings in early June, (whilst off duty) Sgt. Ray Riley of GMP Traffic, Wigan, took out 9 team members for “commentary” and emergency response driver awareness training in BM1, one of our two First Response Landrover ambulances. The...
by admin | Jun 8, 2002 | General news
Further to our earlier report on the MRC Casualty Care Certificate Course, we can happily report another 4 team members have passed their examinations, giving the team 29 successful passes on this very intensive course.
