by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received a fantastic and very kind £120.00 donation from St. Margaret’s Church, Lonsdale Road, Bolton. The whole team thanks all at St. Margaret’s Church for this wonderful and thoughtful donation.
by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | 2008, Incident
In the early hours of this morning heavy snowfalls started in the Greater Manchester and Lancashire areas, steadily worsening as the early morning commuter traffic started. Traffic soon ground to a halt in the snow and icy road conditions, with gridlock or at the...
by admin | Nov 30, 2008 | General news
Today is the day Bolton Mountain Rescue Team has to say goodbye to the General Motors Mountain Rescue H3 Hummer. Tomorrow General Motors collect the vehicle which has been available on loan to all Mountain Rescue Teams in England & Wales to celebrate the 75th...
by admin | Nov 30, 2008 | General news
Today the team provided standby rescue cover for the David Staff Memorial Charity Fell Race (who are long time friends and supporters of the team.) This fell race takes in a course over 5.1 miles including 1200 feet of ascent, centered on Jubilee Tower, Darwen and...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | General news
During our return from incident 116/2008 and whilst still in transit NWAS control requested if we could back-up a paramedic rapid response vehicle responding to the report of a cardiac arrest in the Walmersley area of Bury. Our BM2 vehicle was dispatched but stood...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 15:51 hours we were contacted by NWAS (Manchester) to respond to the report of a football player at Goshen Lane Sports Club, Redvales, Bury, who had suffered a serious leg fracture. Our 4 Landrover ambulances plus BM5 (the ’Hummer’) with a total of 12 team members...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | General news
At the conclusion of incident 115/2008 with our BM2 vehicle still at Wigan Hospital and our three other vehicles returning to our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ, we received a second callout from NWAS (Manchester) to the report of another sports player injured on yet another...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Today 8 team members in 4 team vehicles whilst in the team area with the prior knowledge of NWAS (Manchester) control (see the Tricia Dorgan story from today) received a callout from NWAS to the report of a rugby player who had suffered a serious injury on playing...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | General news
Commencing this morning at 9:00 running until early this evening 11 team members supported by 4 members from our Support Group carried out our last full day collection of the year. Held at the very busy Asda, Middlebrook, Bolton store, team members and support group...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | General news
Happy 50th birthday congratulations to Mrs Patricia (Tricia) Dorgan (maiden name Daly) an ex team member who met and married her husband Dave Dorgan when they were both Team Callout list members. (Dave Dorgan was Deputy Team Leader in our team between 1985 and 1987)....
