by admin | Dec 18, 2010 | 2010, Incident
On Friday evening at 21:35 hours the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) and then at 21:44 by NWAS (Manchester) regarding assistance to the ambulance service given the very heavy regional snow falls. A full team pager callout was made at 21:40 hours resulting in 24...
by admin | Dec 17, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the kind donation of £20.00 from our President Bob Hutchinson and his wife Janet, in lieu of Christmas Cards to team members. Merry Christmas Bob and Janet from all your team colleagues.
by admin | Dec 17, 2010 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce today the receipt of a Christmas card and a very kind donation of £25.00 from husband and wife long term team supporters Deborah and John Garlick of Locking Stumps, Warrington. In January 1996 we were involved in the rescue of...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | General news
This afternoon the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Belle Vue Control, along with our colleagues at Rossendale and Pendle MRT and Oldham MRT, regards all the teams availability given the forecast of snowfall in the Greater Manchester area, with at the time...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | General news
Our national body Mountain Rescue England and Wales recently announced an initiative whereby they would be offering to supply every MRT in England and Wales with forty free ’Belay style ’ jackets, with an offer that additional jackets could be purchased at...
by admin | Dec 15, 2010 | Donations, General news
This evening the team received via Martin Banks a kind donation of £10 from a resident of Angelbank, Horwich. The team would like to think this anonymous benefactor for this kind donation at this time of year.
by admin | Dec 15, 2010 | General news
Today the team received a Christmas card and a tin of chocolates from ex-team member George Pike. George was a member of the team from February 2008 to September 2009. The team would like to thank George for his kind and thoughtful gift at this time of...
by admin | Dec 15, 2010 | Donations, General news
This evening the team received £20.00 from Team Member Steve Nelson in lieu of sending everyone a Christmas card. The team would like to thank Steve for his kind donation.
by admin | Dec 14, 2010 | General news
The team maintains a large amount of rope rescue equipment (obviously!) which though seldom used in anger, none the less is subject to regular replacement to comply with the equipment manufacturers recommendations and standards. We have recently replaced our stock of...
by admin | Dec 14, 2010 | Donations, General news
Linked to the purchase of our three brand new Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances (due in team service circa March 2011) the team decided to purchase three brand new, latest generation mountain rescue stretchers to equip each vehicle. The stretcher we selected was...
