Incident 19/2012

Incident 19/2012

At 15:30 this afternoon, during a period of freezing rain affecting many parts of Greater Manchester, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received a direct call from NWAS (Manchester) who were very busy with a high emergency call volume. The team was requested to attend...
Incident 19/2012

Team on standby for NWAS (Manchester)

At 10:50 this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) requesting the team be put on standby due to the likelihood of freezing rain and icy conditions underfoot which was already affecting Cumbria and Lancashire,...
Incident 19/2012

Visit to Heath Charnock Womens Institute

This evening full team callout members Gillian Leigh and Dave Marsh travelled to Rivington Church Hall to present a lecture to the Heath Charnock Women’s Institute. Below is Gillian Leigh’s account of the evening visit ; On an icy and dark night on...
Incident 19/2012

Incident 18/2012

Two local male youths from the Horwich area, became lost this afternoon on the misty still partially snow covered moorland of Rivington Moor, prompting a large scale Police and Mountain Rescue response today. The two fourteen year olds, on a moorland walk between...
Incident 19/2012

Incident 17/2012

At 12.54hrs with three team vehicles and six members already at Incident 16 (See previous Incident Report) we were called by NWAS (Manchester) to assist an NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Ambulance crew with an injured snow sledger on the shallow valley side of...
Incident 19/2012

Incident 16/2012

With six team members at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ and NWAS (Manchester) aware of this, (Given the wintry and very snowy ground conditions prevailing) at 12.17hrs we were called out to assist two NWAS Rapid Response Vehicle crews at an incident adjacent to...
Incident 19/2012

Incident 15/2012

At 14:12hrs this wintry and increasingly snowy afternoon the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) Control followed two minutes later by NWAS (Lancashire) Control, requesting the team go to ‘crewed vehicle standby’ to assist with any incidents occurring...