by admin | Jun 18, 2008 | General news
This evening Garry Rhodes, our Team Leader, together with Geoff Seddon, Deputy Team Leader, Ken Oakes, Chairman & Dave Healey, Radio & Communications Officer, had an informal meeting with Delwyn Wray, NWAS Operational Area Director – Greater Manchester...
by admin | Jun 17, 2008 | General news
This evening the team provided standby rescue cover for the Lever Park Run. This annual event is organised by the Horwich RMI Harriers & Athletics Club and constitutes a part of the annual Horwich Carnival Races. 103 runners took part in a two lap circuit covering...
by admin | Jun 16, 2008 | General news
Deputy Team Leader, Geoff Seddon, together with colleagues from our sister Teams from the Mid Pennine Search & Rescue Organisation, journeyed to Rossendale & Pendle MRT HQ to meet Ewan Thomas, the National Water Officer of Mountain Rescue (England &...
by admin | Jun 16, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 10:51 Hrs today the Team was paged by North West Ambulance Service (Greater Manchester Area) regarding our assistance in a difficult evacuation incident, located on the stream course running through Smithills Woodlands – Smithills Brook / Astley Brook. A 14...
by admin | Jun 16, 2008 | General news
Its very fitting to note two more honours to Mountain Rescue members. Firstly congratulations to Alfie Ingram for his MBE, for voluntary services to Mountain Rescue in Scotland. Alfie is Team Leader of Tayside MRT, Chair of the Mountain Rescue Committe of Scotland and...
by admin | Jun 15, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 06:20 this morning our Team Leader was contacted by Greater Manchester Police regarding an urgent search in the Belmont area for a missing person. Our Team Leader was then asked to contact the local police officer running the investigation, to discover that the...
by admin | Jun 15, 2008 | General news
Yet again and with very grateful thanks, Total Tyre Services of Leigh have come to the rescue of the team on yet another occassion. Upon discovering one of our Landrovers had suffered a punctured and now totally deflated tyre, this Sunday morning Total Tyre Services...
by admin | Jun 15, 2008 | General news
Today team member Fred Taylor headed off to Swaledale MRT for a training day organised by the Mountain Rescue England & Wales. The topic was Opiates – strong painkilling (analgesic) drugs, and in particular an exploration of the potential of some opiates...
by admin | Jun 13, 2008 | Donations, General news
This morning we were very pleased to receive a very kind letter from Mrs. Joan Waddicar, the casualty involved in #article#1985#incident 61/2008.# Readers may recall Joan fractured her ankle in a fall on the track network below George’s Lane, Montcliffe (the...
by admin | Jun 12, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 20:50 this evening, NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) contacted the team to assist with an incident in the Seven Acres Country Park area of Thicketford Brow, Bolton. A total of 23 call out list members responded to this incident (with 2 additional members stood down...
