by admin | Jan 9, 2010 | General news
It has been 21 days since our first callout on the evening of Saturday 19th December 2009, related to the period of wintry weather in our team operational area. With incident 30/2010 (late this afternoon), we have reached an unbelievable total of 100 seperate...
by admin | Jan 9, 2010 | 2010, Incident
With a small number of team at our base, writing up reports of the day’s incidents, cleaning kit, repairing damaged items arising from the multitude of incidents we have attended (including broken vehicles!), the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary at 17:24...
by admin | Jan 9, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 15:15, at the conclusion of the previous incident, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes, whilst in contact with NWAS (Lancashire) Control on an administrative matter, was directed by the same control to callout the team to a sledging accident on the moorland edge field...
by admin | Jan 9, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 14:36 today, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) to respond to assist an NWAS (Manchester) Rapid Response Vehicle and an NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Ambulance, both stuck on compacted snow and ice whilst accessing a casualty’s address in the Moses Gate area of...
by admin | Jan 9, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 03:25 this morning our Team Leader was contacted direct by NWAS (Manchester) control with the report of an NWAS ambulance crew needing assistance accessing a narrow snowbound road to a casualty in the Bradshaw Chapel area of Harwood. En-route, after he had...
