by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 17:58 this evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes was contacted by the Team Leader of Rossendale & Pendle MRT, Andy Simpson, to request our assistance at an incident in Ramsbottom, where an NWAS ambulance was stuck on the icy road and where they also required...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | General news
This afternoon, team members Elaine Gilliland and Stephen Kenworthy were invited to sit on the couch at Channel M Today, (a news programme on the regional TV channel, “Channel M”) to comment on the team’s involvement in the birth of Leah Fane,...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today, after team members had returned from the major incident standby in West Yorkshire and were about to return home from our Ladybridge Hall base, a knock on the door downstairs was heard, with a member of the public asking “any chance of a tow?” Again...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11.04hrs this morning the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) as part of a request to send Mountain Rescue resources into West Yorkshire, to assist Yorkshire Ambulance Service due to adverse wintry conditions affecting the West Yorkshire region. NWAS (Manchester)...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | General news
With the huge increase in the usage of our four Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles over the last few weeks thankfully they have held up well. Our BM1,2 and 3 vehicles were purchased new in August 1999, our BM4 vehicle was purchased new in August 2003....
