by admin | Aug 7, 2016 | Training
Today the team took part in a joint training exercise with members of RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team who were in the area training this weekend. Four members of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team met at Anglezarke quarries to participate in rope rescue stretcher lower and...
by admin | Aug 7, 2016 | Donations
Over two Saturday morning sessions team member and NWAS Trained CPR assessor Mark Scott, and former team member Naomi Horan visited Horwich Holy Trinity Parish Church to deliver training on basic life support, CPR, AED and essential first aid. Horwich Holy Trinity...
by admin | Aug 7, 2016 | General news
At 7:17 this morning the team was contacted by North West Ambulance Service requesting assistance to assist with a man who had fallen down an embankment in his wheelchair. Before the team had been mobilised, the team received another call saying our assistance was...
by admin | Aug 5, 2016 | General news
Today the team has assisted NWAS with three incidents. Three team members were at our Ladybridge Hall base when the first call arrived. This call was to assist Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team with an incident in the Rochdale area. A female walker had a...
by admin | Aug 5, 2016 | 2016, Incident
On the return journey to our Ladybridge Hall base, at 16:29 the team received the third callout of the day to assist NWAS crews with an incident involving a female who had fallen off a rope swing near Tower Farm, Greenmont. With this location being near to the border...
