by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | General news
This evening all four team Land Rover Ambulances travelled to two moorland locations in our area which were lighting beacons to celebrate the Queens’ Diamond Jubilee. We had been asked to attend two of the Beacon locations in our team area, Jubilee Tower above...
by admin | Jun 3, 2012 | General news
Bolton MRT were kindly invited to take part in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Turton Parade. The parade took place this afternoon from Turton Tower to The Barlow Institute, Edgworth. Bolton Land Rovers Mobile 1 & Mobile 3 attended crewed by experienced senior...
by admin | Jun 2, 2012 | General news
After a busy morning attending incidents at Rivington Pike and then Sale, two Bolton MRT vehicles, with 8 full call-out team members on board, headed to City Airport Manchester today for a very special training event. The plan was to work alongside the Airport Fire...
by admin | Jun 2, 2012 | 2012, Incident
On conclusion of the previous incident at Rivington Pike whilst team members were departing scene, the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Control Room to assist with an incident at North Cheshire Equestrian Centre in Sale. Deputy Team Leader, Geoff Seddon,...
by admin | Jun 2, 2012 | 2012, Incident
The team were contacted today by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Control Room at 12:22 hrs. to request assistance with an incident in Horwich. A full team call out page was sent to the team at 12:27 hrs. and on arrival at the incident site, Rivington Pike, they were...
by admin | May 31, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 19:55 this evening the team was contacted by Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service to assist with an incident near Wilton quarries, Belmont. GMFRS had responded to a call for assistance from NWAS, crashed through the barriers on Scout Road and then travelled...
by admin | May 31, 2012 | General news
Today, the Team learned of an incident involving [Daniel] the son of Greater Manchester’s Fire and Rescue search dog handler, Mike Dewar. Dan was attending a charity football game at Old Trafford on Sunday as a spectator. Whilst transitting to the ground, a road...
by admin | May 31, 2012 | General news
Click here for a link to a 360 degree image from Tuesdays Lancashire Fire Operation Group exercise, taken from Bleasdale Fell. Thanks to our colleagues from Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team for the image.
by admin | May 29, 2012 | General news
In line with many other areas in the United Kingdom that are now facing increasing risk from large “Wildfires” (In this area grass and moorland fires), after considerable work on the subject Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service decided to form a Lancashire...
by admin | May 27, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 15:36 this very sunny and very hot afternoon, the team was paged by North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire) who were requesting our assistance at an incident on the slopes of Winter Hill, near Belmont. The call was immediately answered by our Team Leader, and...
