by admin | Jan 9, 2010 | General news
Long-time team member Chris Greenhalgh turned 30 yesterday… but with the call for team members to be on standby at our Ladybridge Hall base last night, Chris opted to forego his celebrations, and instead spent the evening in the company of his team mates. So...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | General news
Amazing as it sounds, with all the operational activity that the team has been undertaking over this period of wintry weather, we have never stopped to count up all the individual incidents that we have actually attended, until this afternoon. The Manchester Evening...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 21:33 this evening our Team Leader was contacted by NWAS (Manchester) to call on resources on standby at our Ladybridge Hall base to respond to the report of an emergency ambulance which was unable to access a patient’s address within the steep snow covered road...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | General news
Tonight the team is pleased to welcome back former team members (and husband and wife) Stephanie and Jonathan Holt. Due to family and work commitments on their time, both had to leave the team’s callout list in 2007, but are now back and rejoined our ranks...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 14:06, NWAS (Manchester) Control contacted our Team Leader to request assistance with an NWAS (Manchester) PTS (Patient Transfer Service) vehicle, stuck on snow and ice road conditions on Johnson Fold, Markland Hill, Bolton. Our BM4 vehicle with two team members...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11:55 NWAS (Manchester) Control directly tasked our BM1 vehicle, with three crew on board, to an incident in Breightmet, Bolton, where an Emergency Ambulance was stuck on snow and icy road conditions outside a residential address where a female casualty was...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At the same time as BM1 was being despatched on incident 22/2010, NWAS (Manchester) Control requested that our BM4 vehicle respond to a residential address in the Shevington area of Wigan, where the Emergency Ambulance crew had requested help getting the female...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11:00 NWAS (Manchester) Control, (again Katherine contacting our Team Leader Garry) requested a team vehicle assist an NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Ambulance at an incident in Farnworth, where snow and icy road conditions were causing problems for the responding...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At circa 10:00 our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE in his co-ordinator role with NWAS (Manchester) control was contacted by despatcher Katherine, to mobilise the team to a Residential Care Home in Horwich, where an Emergency Ambulance couldn’t reach the location due to...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | General news
This morning, meeting at 09:00, five team members crewing our BM1 and BM4 vehicles went to standby at our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ on behalf of NWAS (Manchester) during the current continuing wintry conditions (Again overnight temperatures of average minus 5c and with...
