by admin | May 19, 2012 | General news
Further to a training exercise undertaken using our 3.5m semi-rigid inflatable SAR Boat on Wednesday 16th May 2012, in Valentines Quarry, in the Charters Moss area of Turton, some further familiarity with our SAR Boat took place this morning, concentrating around...
by admin | May 18, 2012 | General news
This evening saw the team holding its 43rd Anniversary Year Annual Team Dinner, with a return for the fifth time to the excellent venue of Dunscar Golf Club, Bolton. Organised very capably again this year by team member Gillian Leigh, (with help from her husband, ex...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 21:06 this evening the team was paged by NWAS Manchester Emergency Control Centre who were requesting our help on an incident. The pager call was answered by Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon (closely followed by our Team Leader) who in turn mobilised the team to a...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | General news
This evening we were visited at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ by an interested group of visitors from the Salvation Army Church Ladies Group. There follows team member Dave Marsh’s account of the visit; “This evening saw team members Dave Marsh, Chris...
by admin | May 12, 2012 | 2012, Incident
With the team actively involved in providing standby rescue cover for two concurrent events today, at 13.57hrs our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS (Lancashire) ECC for the teams assistance with the report of a collapsed woman in the...
