by admin | May 14, 2013 | Donations, General news
We are pleased to announce today the receipt of a very kind and thoughtful anonymous £110.00 donation, from a valued team supporter, via the Charities Aid Foundation. This donation has been made with the specific instruction that the inclusive amount of...
by admin | May 14, 2013 | Donations, General news
On the very 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 mans...
by admin | May 12, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 12:53 this wet and rainy afternoon we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway with the report of an injured mountain biker in the Rivington area. The call was immediately answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE who collected additional information....
by admin | May 12, 2013 | General news
Today, starting at noon, the team provided full standby rescue cover for the fell run section of the Darwen Leisure Centre Aquathon. This event organised by Blackburn with Darwen Council, had as its fell run section a route from the Sunnyhurst Inn up onto Darwen Moor...
by admin | May 12, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Whilst present on the SARDA (Wales) Training weekend, and in the early hours of this morning, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Handler, Bolton MRT member Steve Nelson, and his Trailing Search Dog Boris were called out to assist North Wales Police in the search for a...
