by admin | Dec 31, 2009 | General news
As 2009 has come to a close, we can reveal the total income for the year from our collection boxes out in the community was £3,774.42. Although this is some £1,445 less than in 2008, we are, nevertheless, very grateful to the generous customers and members...
by admin | Dec 31, 2009 | 2009, Incident
As part of NWAS (GMA) pre arranged plan to cope with peak demand calls on this festive season night, the Team was mobilised to directly assist NWAS (GMA) with ambulance calls throughout the evening. 8 Team members mobilised to crew two team Landrover ambulances and...
by admin | Dec 29, 2009 | General news
This afternoon 7 Team members were ’filmed’ for the local ITV news, Granada Reports. The reason for this was due to the amount of work for the North West Ambulance Service, the regions Mountain Rescue Teams had done in the recent wintry weather conditions....
by admin | Dec 26, 2009 | General news
Well we did’nt get to catch up much on our sleep ! NWAS (Manchester) called us out again by pager at 08.48hrs, and this led on to a continuous string of 9x Call Outs, interspersed with some additional calls when we were stood down almost immediately. The last...
by admin | Dec 26, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 04.02hrs in the early hours of the morning off went the pagers again ! and again it involved an emergency ambulance from NWAS (Manchester) stuck on ice responding to an emergency. The location was a housing estate in the Marsh Green area of Wigan, and in a 2hrs 18...
by admin | Dec 25, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Well in the past we have organised a call out (search) on Christmas Day (for Boxing Day) and we’ve been put on stand by on Christmas Day, see details for last year, but never in the teams history have we actually been called out on Christmas Day until this evening...
by admin | Dec 24, 2009 | 2009, Incident
We were paged at 12.33hrs by NWAS (Manchester) Control to assist an Ambulance stuck on a snowbound / ice bound road with a casualty, in the Little Lever area of Bolton. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE responded directly in his car, backed up by our BM1 and BM3 Land...
by admin | Dec 24, 2009 | 2009, Incident
The Team Leader of Rossendale and Pendle MRT contacted our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon directly requesting the Bolton MRT assist with an incident in RPMRTs area, as RPMRT were deployed elsewhere. The incident was yet again to assist NWAS (Manchester) with...
by admin | Dec 24, 2009 | General news
With many team members out assisting NWAS on a few incidents on Christmas eve, former team search dog Chi shows us that he still enjoys playing in the snow!
by admin | Dec 23, 2009 | General news
Very experienced and well respected team member Andrew (Andy) Ryding announced his retirement with immediate effect from the team this evening. Andy, aged 44 of Chorley, joined the team in October 1999, but was associated with the team for a long time before this in...
