by admin | Oct 4, 2009 | General news
Our Treasurer, Johanne Lamb received a phone call from Mrs E Rees, notifying us that her husband, who was a 250 club member, had died. Mrs Rees had been notified of the ending of the 250 Club via letter from Johanne. Johanne was pleased to accept from, Mrs E Rees, her...
by admin | Oct 4, 2009 | General news
Whilst returning from Incident 78 at Darwen, and driving our BM4 Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle to fill up with fuel, Ken Oakes, our Team Chairman, was approached on Higher Bridge Street, Bolton, by a member of the public who asked Ken to wind down his...
by admin | Oct 4, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 11.19hrs this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes received details of an incident near to Darwen Tower that had been received by Rossendale and Pendle MRT in error, and that their Team Leader Andy Simpson was passing on to our team for us to respond to. This area...
by admin | Oct 3, 2009 | General news
For Team members Dave Healey, Ana Toole, Matthew Hailwood & Paul Brain the early morning alarm call came as a shock, well it did for Dave at 05:15 Hrs. These four Team members had volunteered to take part in the ’Kit checking’ of the participants in...
by admin | Oct 3, 2009 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind £20.00 donation from Ms B.J. Thornley of Middleton, Manchester, in memory of her Aunt, Mrs Mavis Gilmore of Turton, Bolton. In a letter accompanying her thoughtful donation, Ms B.J. Thornley commented, “Thank you, and your...
by admin | Oct 1, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Two searches over the last two days so it was time for a ’rescue’ incident ! At 14.38hrs we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) for the teams assistance to evacuate a young boy who had fallen from a rope swing in to a steep sided stream valley. Following a full team call...
by admin | Sep 30, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Wednesday is our fixed training night but because we had been called out yesterday we all gave ourselves the night off, and it was pouring down with rain, so it was almost inevitable that we’d get called out ! At 19.00hrs a GMP Missing Person Search Manager contacted...
by admin | Sep 29, 2009 | General news
Congratulations to Team Call Out list member Michael O’Brien and his wife Christine, on the birth of their second son Oliver, brother to Thomas now aged 22 months, at 23.26hrs this evening at Wigan Hospital. For those who will ask, Oliver was a healthy 6lbs...
by admin | Sep 29, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 07.00hrs this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes was contacted directly by a GMP Mising Person Search Manager, who is also the GMP Force Search Co Ordinator, regarding the teams help with the developing Police search operation for a missing 81 years old Ashton in...
by admin | Sep 28, 2009 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our month end collecting box income for September 2009 to be £461.79, this brings our 2009 income from Collecting Boxes to a grand total of £2,963.17, this compares respectively with the following figures for 2008,...
