by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Today with the wintry conditions persisting, all four of our Team Land Rovers were out and about in the team area, with a total of ten team members aboard. At 14.38hrs we were contacted both via the SARCALL platform system and pager by Lancashire Constabulary, for...
by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | General news
The pictures below show some of the conditions on the roads around our team area following the snowfall and blizzards of Friday night, Saturday morning. Walkers Fold Road near the Bob Smithy Public House
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 19.48hrs this evening, with strong winds, drifting snow and treacherous local road conditions (Away from major roads) the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton, to attend to two separate incidents on the steep moorland fringe residential road of...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | General news
With the conclusion of Incident 42, and Incidents 43 and 44 having ended, Team member Steve Fletcher took our Land Rover BM3 to his home address, and team members Nigel Booth and Mike O’Brien in Land Rover BM4 all maintained a team vehicle ‘crewed...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 01.56hrs, the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton, regarding an Emergency Ambulance unable to access a casualty address in Darwen due to snow, with a requirement for the team to stretcher evacuate the casualty to the Ambulance. With team members...