by admin | Jan 3, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At circa 13:53 our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted direct by NWAS (Manchester) Control, requesting the team’s assistance at a serious road traffic collision on the A6 Blackrod bypass (by Douglas Valley golf course). Two vehicles had been in collision...
by admin | Jan 3, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 13:07 today, with a small number of team members at our Ladybridge Hall base (cleaning vehicles), NWAS (Manchester) contacted the team by pager to request the team’s assistance during a peak demand period with a call to a residential address in the Horwich area of...
by admin | Jan 2, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the receipt of a very kind £25 donation from Miss Sheila Hart of Lostock, Bolton. Miss Sheila Hart has been a longstanding friend and valued supporter of the team and in a letter attached with her kind donation she mentions,...
by admin | Jan 2, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today team member Mike Marsh received a £10 donation from a member of the public from Walkden. All we can say is that it was given with ’…grateful thanks for the work the team does…’ To our mystery donor, thank you very much from all the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Today at 10:00 Hrs the Team was called out for a continuation of the previous day’s search in Horwich, for a missing 58 year old male. The main objective today was a re-tasking of areas done in failing light conditions yesterday, and also to search new areas. 13 Team...
by admin | Jan 1, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a very kind letter of thanks from Chief Superintendant Steven Hartley, Bolton Divisional Commander, in relation to our major involvement in incident 93/2009, at High Rid reservior (when following a search, we sadly recovered the body of a...
by admin | Jan 1, 2010 | General news
So, whilst searching for a missing male & assisting the Ambulance service with the medevac of an injured walker. We also had a request to help a vehicle stuck on ice, which was carrying 2 care workers who had just finished visiting an elderly lady. So we sent 4...
by admin | Jan 1, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Whilst out on Incident 4/2010, NWAS (Manchester) paged the Team for assistance with a young person who had fallen on the slopes of Rivington Pike. 4 Team members (who had just completed a search area) were immediately dispatched from the search control RVP at Lever...
by admin | Jan 1, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11.56 this morning, Greater Manchester Police paged the Team requesting our assistance with a developing search in the Horwich area, for a missing 58 year old male. The call was answered by Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon, and ongoing discussion between GMP &...
by admin | Jan 1, 2010 | 2010, Incident
As part of NWAS (GMA) pre arranged plan to cope with peak demand calls on this festive season early morning, the Team continued to directly assist NWAS (GMA) with ambulance calls throughout the early hours after already being on standby before midnight. 8 Team members...
