by admin | Feb 25, 2008 | 2008, Incident
NWAS (GMA) paged the team at 20:27 tonight to enquire if we could help as part of their step-up procedure due to extra loading on the ambulance system. One vehicle was made available to NWAS (GMA) which was crewed by 3 team members. From 21:07 onwards the vehicle was...
by admin | Feb 24, 2008 | General news
Following this years membership intake, which included appeals in the local press for new members, we had a total of 49 applicants, inclusive of 5 from women. Overall the standard of initial application was very high. From the 49 applicants 19 people took up the...
by admin | Feb 24, 2008 | General news
Congratulations today to the following trainee team members, who have now completed their 12 month trainee team period to the full satisfaction of the team. We are therefore pleased to announce today that Brian Brooks, Matthew Hailwood, Peter Heeley, Blake Jackson,...
by admin | Feb 22, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Late tonight, NWAS(GMA) contacted the Team Leader via telephone to enquire if we could help as part of their step-up procedure with a sudden increase in emergency calls on this busy Friday night. Three vehicles were made available to NWAS (GMA) crewed by 8 team...
by admin | Feb 21, 2008 | 2008, Incident
In the early hours of the morning at 04:47 the team was paged by GMFRS regarding an incident in the Little Lever / Radcliffe area. This call was concurrently answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes and Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon. They learnt from Fire Service control...
by admin | Feb 20, 2008 | General news
This February saw one part of the culmination of our Mountain Rescue Casualty Care Certificate Course for our team members, which has to be renewed every 3 years. The team prides itself in any one year in trying to have its entire membership current with this...
by admin | Feb 20, 2008 | Donations, General news
Following donations received in the memory of Mr Michael Clarke which have been reported previously on our website (see news article dated Tuesday 5th February), today we received a further £10 donation in the memory of Michael Clarke via Howarth’s Funeral...
by admin | Feb 18, 2008 | General news
Today Zen Internet upgraded the Team’s broadband connection to 8 Meg potential connection speed. The best part being Zen Internet will still continue to cover the cost of the Broadband package and continue to provide the connection at no cost to the Team. Our...
by admin | Feb 17, 2008 | Donations, General news
Many thanks to Nick Barran, a work colleague of team member Dave Healey, for his very generous £15 recent donation to the team.
by admin | Feb 17, 2008 | General news
On both Saturday & Sunday this weekend, Bolton MRT member Steve Fletcher attended the Lancashire Constabulary Motor Driving School at the police headquarters at Hutton, Preston, for two days of “speed awareness” driver training. Also joining Steve was...
