by admin | Jan 6, 2010 | General news
Today, with wintry conditions continuing throughout the whole of the Greater Manchester area, the team was requested by NWAS (Manchester) to go to crewed vehicle standby at our Ladybridge Hall base. This commenced at circa 11:00, finishing at circa 17:30. Throughout...
by admin | Jan 6, 2010 | General news
We have now received to date 39x on line membership applications and 7 letters and emails to join the team, all of whom have received an invitation to attend our Thursday evening January 21st 2010 and all day Sunday January 24th 2010 recruitment sessions. To date 14x...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At circa 19:45 this evening, with a small number of team members remaining at our Ladybridge Hall base after the day’s numerous incidents, team member Mike Marsh was contacted by former team member Jonathan Holt of Tyldesley, advising us of an incident near to his...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | Donations, General news
Whilst the team was engaged in the snow cover today, we were assisting stuck motorists on the A58, Beaumont Road, Bolton. After a team vehicle towed a stuck car out from the snow, a grateful member of the public pressed two £5 notes into our hands, as a donation...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 04:31 in the early hours of this morning following a very heavy overnight snowfall (which was continuing) the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Control to respond to a casualty in the Eccles area, with heart problems due to the responding ambulance being stuck in...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 00:20, at the conclusion of the previous incident, our Team Leader was contacted direct by NWAS (Manchester) Control for the team’s assistance to recover an emergency ambulance stuck in deep snow in the Billinge area, in continuing heavy snowfall. As no casualty...
by admin | Jan 4, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At circa 23:11 our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by the Team Leader of Rossendale & Pendle MRT, Andy Simpson, to pass on a job that their team had received whilst on standby to NWAS (Manchester), which was in the Bolton MRT’s operational...
by admin | Jan 4, 2010 | General news
Bob Buller, a musical colleague of team callout list member Mark Parry, recently contacted Mark, offering to raise money for the team. Of course Mark promptly said “yes” to Bob’s fundraising offer, and so on the 29th and 30th December 2009, the string trio...
by admin | Jan 3, 2010 | Donations, General news
On Friday 1st January 2010, team callout list member (and council officer) Mark Scott, and his wife Megan celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary by holding a walk up Rivington Pike, from their Horwich home, and then returning for hotdogs and mulled wine. Mark and...
by admin | Jan 3, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 15:44 our Team Leader was contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) regarding the team’s assistance with an ambulance stuck on icy road conditions whilst trying to access a casualty at a residential address in Bolton. Fortunately as our members arrived on scene in...
