by admin | Feb 9, 2009 | Donations, General news
Today we received a letter of Mr Peter Fenton of Smithills, Bolton, informing us that following the death of his mother Mrs Elsie Fenton, donations were made in her memory to our colleagues at Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team in Cumbria. In amongst the...
by admin | Feb 8, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 19.29hrs this evening during a period of snowfall throughout the Greater Manchester area, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) regards going to standby in case the road conditions worsened causing problems for their Ambulances progressing to incidents. In...
by admin | Feb 8, 2009 | 2009, Incident
During the concluding part of our involvement with providing standby rescue cover on the Winter Hill Fell Race, whilst most of the teams resources were at the Lower House car park area in Rivington, we were approached by a member of a mountain biking party to say his...
by admin | Feb 8, 2009 | General news
Today the team provided its usual standby rescue cover provision for the gruelling Winter Hill Fell Race, organised excellently as ever by Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletic Club. Now in its 27th year (the team has attended every event), the course takes in an 11 mile...
by admin | Feb 8, 2009 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the receipt of a £30.00 donation from the St.John’s Church Men’s Fellowship, further to a £21.00 donation immediately following their visit to our base / HQ on the evening of 27th January 2009. In a very kind...
by admin | Feb 5, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 17.34hrs this evening we were paged by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service to mobilise as part of their PDA (Pre Determined Attendance) for structures and vertical line rescue, to the report of two children stuck at the top of a crane in Leigh. With team...
by admin | Feb 5, 2009 | Donations, General news
On the morning of 5th February 2009, four team members, Ken Oakes, Fred Taylor, George Pike and Elaine Gilliland travelled in one of the team vehicles to the Sutton Estate Community Centre in Bolton to receive a donation from C.A.L.L. On arrival at the Community...
by admin | Feb 5, 2009 | General news
On the evening of Tuesday 27th January 2009, members of the St John’s Church Men’s Fellowship visited our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, kindly donating £21.00, with a promise to raise a donation for the team. Today our Team Leader, Garry Rhodes MBE,...
by admin | Feb 2, 2009 | 2009, Incident
With wintry conditions persisting into the early evening, and with more snow showers forecast for later into the evening, at 18:30 this evening the team placed its 4 Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulances on standby at our Ladybridge Hall base to be available in case of...
by admin | Feb 2, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 08:38 this morning we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) to provide standby assistance to the Ambulance Service due to the wintry road conditions prevailing and the forecast of more snow on the way. Balancing a potential requirement to also be available for NWAS...
