by admin | Dec 5, 2008 | General news
Today we received some excellent news on the completion of the fundraising efforts by all the members at 25th Warrington East Scout Troop (St Wilfred’s, Grappenhall.) This follows a visit by the Scout Troop to our Team Base / HQ at Ladybridge Hall on Friday 18th...
by admin | Dec 5, 2008 | Donations, General news
Regular readers of our website will be familiar with the wonderful and long standing support the team receives from Jim Fletcher at the ’Shed’ in Belthorn village on the outskirts of Darwen. Jim has held a collecting box at the ’Shed’ for a...
by admin | Dec 5, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind £50.00 donation from Darwen Dashers Running Club, thanking us for our help on their David Staff Memorial Fell Race held on Sunday 30th November 2008, at which we provided Standby Rescue Cover. (see ’news’ item dated 30th...
by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 10.25hrs along with our colleagues at Rossendale and Pendle MRT we were requested by NWAS (Lancashire) A&E Control to RVP at Darwen Ambulance Station (in our case) to standby regarding a large number of motorists stuck in snowdrifts on the snowbound road...
by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 09.36hrs NWAS (Lancashire) Accident and Emergency Control contacted our Team Leader directly for 4WD assistance, to reach a property and evacuate an elderly and poorly gentleman from a care home in Darwen, which due to icy and snowbound road conditions was...
by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | 2008, Incident
With a very heavy snowfall forecasted for the Greater Manchester and Lancashire areas during the early hours of this morning, the North West Ambulance Service had requested MRTs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester to go to standby status overnight in case of need, to...
by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Just after returning to the Bolton Fire Station base from the previous moorland incident (119/2008), Bolton Mobile 2 was requested by NWAS (Manchester area) to attend a female who had fallen on an icy drive in Lostock. With 2 members immediately available for this...
by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 13.46hrs NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre paged the team for assistance with an incident initially reported in the Walker Fold Farm area of the moors north of Bolton. At 13.58hrs a full team call out message was paged for team members to respond to the...
by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | General news
Today we received an invite from our friends at Soroptimist International of Bolton (an International Women’s Service Organisation) to attend a wine & canaps evening, followed by the ’timely romp’ “Charley’s Aunt”, by the Bolton...
by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | General news
This evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE gave a presentation on the role and work of the team to the assembled members of the Bolton Voluntary Agencies regular meeting, as part of a networking event. A very interesting presentation by GMFRS Fire Officer Brian...
