by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | General news
At 16.09hrs, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary regards its assistance in an urgent search for a missing person. With seventeen team members in four team vehicles, still present in the Rivington area, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE contacted the Police,...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | Donations, General news
This afternoon, in our BM4 Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle, team members Mike Marsh, Mike O’Brien, Tony Dawson, David Crawford and Kris Kilshaw, journeyed to Belthorn, Darwen to see our dear friend Jim Fletcher, of the ‘Shed’ Belthorn...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | 2012, Incident
During the conclusion of Incident 27/2012, the crew of our BM3 vehicle at 14.45 were approached by a small family party with their niece aged 10 years old, requesting assistance as the young girl had fallen on the Rivington Pike track sustaining a painfull and very...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | 2012, Incident
Whilst in the Rivington Pike area for the Good Friday Pike Fair Celebrations, the crews of our BM2 and BM3 vehicles were approached by members of the public at 14.20hrs with reports of an injured youth on the slopes of Rivington Pike. An immediate response was made,...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | General news
With a tradition going back over a hundred years, every Good Friday (Regardless of the weather) a Fair has been held in close proximity to the high moorland landmark of Rivington Pike, with the Fair itself being set up on the moorland road of Georges Lane (Now an...
