by admin | Jun 6, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 11.40hrs late this morning the team was paged by Greater Manchester Police in respect of providing assistance with a developing major search for a missing Bolton woman. An 87 years old woman had gone missing from her home address in the Ruins, Longsight Park area...
by admin | Jun 4, 2009 | General news
This evening 26x team members (plus our four team vehicles) provided Standby Rescue Cover for the third year running for the Hendersons End Fell Race which takes in a large circuit of the Rivington and Winter Hill moorlands. This annual event organised by Lostock...
by admin | Jun 4, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 03.27hrs in the early hours of this morning the team was paged by Greater Manchester Police for our immediate assistance with the search for a missing 77 years old man in the Debdale area of Manchester. A full team member pager call out was made at 04.06hrs to RVP...
by admin | Jun 4, 2009 | General news
The team is sad to announce the loss of three team call out list members over the recent week, with the retirement from the team of Pedro Seromenho, Joanne Stones and Sue Purtil. Pedro Seromenho, a 34 year old IT Developer from Leigh, joined the team on 17th August...
by admin | Jun 1, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 19:25 on this warm Summer evening, NWAS (Manchester) paged the team requesting assistance at an incident at Queen’s Park in Heywood. As the incident location was inside the operational area of our colleagues at Rossendale & Pendle MRT, the call was immediately...
by admin | May 31, 2009 | General news
Organised annually by our friends and supporters in the Rotary Club of Darwen, the Darwen Tower Trudge takes in a delightful route around the reservoirs and hills of Tockholes, Roddlesworth and Darwen, including the moorland heights of Lyons Den, Darwen Moor and of...
by admin | May 29, 2009 | General news
At our monthly Support Group meeting last night, our Collecting Box monthly total was announced at £586.48 for May to date. Our year to date figure from our 157 Collecting Boxes out and about, is an amazing £1,591.86 (compared to £1,683.968 for this...
by admin | May 28, 2009 | Donations, General news
We are pleased to announce today the receipt of a £75.00 donation from Horwich New Heart Club, in regards to our having provided standby rescue cover for their Sunday 17th May 2009 Annual Rivington Pike Sponsored Walk, see news article dated the same. Roger...
by admin | May 25, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At circa 12 noon today the team was contacted by NWAS (Lancashire) for possible assistance with the reports of a man collapsed on a path adjacent to the Rivington Reservoirs. The North West Air Ambulance Helimed 08 and NWAS (Lancashire) resources had already been...
by admin | May 24, 2009 | General news
Late this afternoon whilst in the Rivington and Belmont areas, team members were asked by NWAS (Lancashire) to lend assistance at the report of an RTC at the junction of Sheephouse Lane and Lower House, Rivington. As team members arrived the injured party, a motor...
