by admin | Apr 19, 2014 | 2014, Incident
With eighteen team members responding to set up to provide standby rescue cover for the Annual Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Fell Race (See above ‘News’ report) NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway directly contacted our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE (Who minutes earlier had...
by admin | Apr 18, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Our third and last serious incident of this Good Friday, commenced with a pager call ay 16.01hrs to the team from NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway, following their receipt of a 999 call from a group of young teenagers. One of the teenagers had sustained a lower leg...
by admin | Apr 18, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Our second serious incident of the day commenced at 14.49hrs, with NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton Air Desk contacting our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE by mobile phone, with the reports of an accident to a woman on a bridleway in the area of Rivington and Blackrod...
by admin | Apr 18, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Whilst present in the Rivington Pike area for the Good Friday festivities (See below ‘News’ report) at circa 13:45, team members were alerted to an 11 year old girl, who had stumbled on the side of Rivington Pike, falling on to a stone and sustaining a very serious...
by admin | Apr 18, 2014 | General news
Today nineteen Team Call Out list members assembled at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at 10.30hrs for a briefing before departing for our annual presence at the Good Friday festivities centred upon the West Pennine Moors landmark of Rivington Pike. Every Good Friday a...