by admin | Apr 12, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today, Team President, Bob Hutchinson and Team Life Vice President, Tony McNally met with Mrs Dorothy Lythgoe, her sons and immediate members of Mrs Lythgoe’s family at the Team’s Ladybridge Hall Headquarters. A few days earlier Mrs Lythgoe had contacted...
by admin | Apr 12, 2012 | Donations, General news
On Wednesday 22nd February this year we were called out to go to the aid of Mrs Imelda Wood, a member of Greater Manchester and High Peak Wednesday Walkers (The Ramblers Association) who slipped and suffered a fractured leg in the area of Turn Lowe on Darwen Moor,...
by admin | Apr 7, 2012 | 2012, Incident
In between the Junior and Senior Fell Races today constituting the Rivington Pike Fell Race, at 13.10hrs today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, was contacted directly by the NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Control Centre ‘ Air Desk,’ requesting the teams assistance with...
by admin | Apr 7, 2012 | General news
Today the team provided ‘Standby Rescue Cover’ for the annual Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Fell Race. Organised by Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club, this short distance but gruelling height gain (And immediate height loss on the return stretch !)...
by admin | Apr 7, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the receipt of a £50.00 donation from our friends and supporters at Milliken Industrials Limited, arising from a talk given by Team Call Out list member and former SARDA Dog Handler Dave Marsh and our Team President Bob...
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...
