by admin | Dec 21, 2009 | 2009, Incident
As with the previous call, NWAS (Manchester) again contacted our Team Leader, this time at 12:40, to request the team attend a nearby residential address in the Horwich area, where a woman was suffering a serious asthma attack. Three team members were despatched in...
by admin | Dec 21, 2009 | 2009, Incident
With team members present on incident 93/2009, and with NWAS (Manchester) aware that the team was operational, at 11:50 our Team Leader was contacted directly to see if the team could assist at an incident on a housing estate in the Horwich area of Bolton, with the...
by admin | Dec 21, 2009 | General news
During incident 93/2009, whilst transporting team members to their search area, a certain team leader who shall remain anonymous, but was honoured by Her Majesty with an MBE, managed to slide one of our Landrovers off the side of the track and bog it down in soft...
by admin | Dec 21, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At circa 09:40 this morning, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes was directly contacted by a GMP Missing Person Search Manager regards a search operation commencing in the High Rid reservoir area of Bolton. Just after 06:30 this morning, a concerned member of the public...
by admin | Dec 21, 2009 | General news
At 09:00 this morning our Team Leader was contacted directly by NWAS Greater Manchester Ambulance Control regarding the team’s availability should the need arise, due to the continuing wintry weather conditions, with local road conditions still very bad. A small...
by admin | Dec 20, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At the conclusion of today’s ambulance assists, as the last team members were heading home having completed vehicle replenishment, base tidy up and paperwork relating to the incidents, the inevitable happened (a late night search callout). This commenced at 21:58 when...
by admin | Dec 20, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At circa 12:05 today the Team Leader was contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) Control for the team’s assistance to an emergency ambulance stuck on icy track conditions in the Glazebury area of Wigan (the ambulance had a casualty on board). Our BM2 and BM4 vehicles...
by admin | Dec 20, 2009 | General news
At this year’s team dinner, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was presented with a large scale radio controlled model of a Hummer vehicle in the colours of the General Motors Hummer, loaned to the team last year (as he didn’t get a chance to drive it...
by admin | Dec 20, 2009 | General news
Throughout this previous week, NWAS (Greater Manchester) control has been in constant liaison directly with our Team Leader and the Team Leaders of our colleagues at Odlham MRT and Rossendale & Pendle MRT with reference to constant updates over the wintry weather...
by admin | Dec 20, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Just as the three team members had finished at the previous incident, we were again contacted by NWAS (Manchester) control at 00:54 to assist at an incident in the Dunscar area of Bolton, around 4 miles away from our current location. Again a frozen, steep road meant...
