by admin | Jul 7, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Following the receipt of a 999 call by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC after midnight, and the subsequent despatch of an Emergency Ambulance and NWAS contacting Lancashire Constabulary, at 00:28 the Bolton MRT was paged for an incident initially reported to us to be...
by admin | Jul 4, 2013 | General news
Regular readers will be aware that we recently introduced in to team operational service our VW Crafter LWB van based Incident Control Vehicle, radio callsign BM6 (Bolton Mobile Six) This vehicle is garaged alongside one of our four specialist Mountain Rescue Land...
by admin | Jul 3, 2013 | 2013, Incident
This morning at 11.00hrs our Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson, who is a member of SARDA (Wales) was contacted to lend his specialist search dog skills to the continuing search operation to locate a 49 year old missing male, last seen at his home...
by admin | Jul 3, 2013 | Donations, General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received in the post a very kind donation from North Bolton Methodist Mission. A letter from Mrs Sheila Richardson, Assistant Treasurer of North Bolton Methodist Mission stated; “Our members have been raising funds for...
by admin | Jul 3, 2013 | Donations, General news
On the extremely wintry evening of Saturday 23rd March 2013, we were called to Foxholes Road, Horwich, to assist an NWAS crew transport an elderly man from his house to an Emergency Ambulance, which due to deep snow and very icy road conditions could not access the...
