by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | 2007, Incident
A rather unusual and early time for NWAS ( Greater Manchester Area ) Belle Vue Emergency Control to be paging the team, but at 07.45hrs this morning our pagers ’rung’ (Webmaster, should that be ’toned’) into action requesting we contact NWAS (GMA) Control. Answered...
by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | Donations, General news
We would like to thank Jen & Richard, friends of Andy & Shirley Staveley, for their kind £30 donation in celebration of the marriage of Andy & Shirley (In lieu of Wedding presents, at Andy & Shirleys Sept 8th wedding) A total of £330...
by admin | Oct 7, 2007 | General news
At 12.37hrs early this Sunday afternoon we were paged by NWAS (GMA) Control to respond to an incident in the Salford area, where a youth was lying injured within a complex of playing fields, and the Ambulance Service expected access and patient transport difficulties....
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Late this afternoon our Team Leader was contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) who requested the team’s assistance as part of their step-up resource plan given a high incident loading on their immediate resources available. Two Bolton MRT Landrover ambulances...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | General news
At this stage in the year we are very pleased to announce that to date, our team collection box total now stands at a fantastic £3,198.37p. As ever our thanks are extended to all who host a box and of course to everybody who supports us by putting money into the...
by admin | Oct 5, 2007 | General news
Each year the Bolton team organises a residential weekend training course joint with other Mountain Rescue and Search & Rescue Teams, aimed at the trainee members of the respective teams, most of whom are in their first twelve months of voluntary search and...
by admin | Oct 2, 2007 | General news
We have learnt from the President Elect Jean Mort, of Soroptimist International of Bolton, which is a part of the international service organisation for women in management and the professions, that in 2008-2009 they would like to support the work of our team, as part...
by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | 2007, Incident
In the knowledge that we’d already had two calls in the day, both of which had resulted in us being ’stood down responding’ and that things always come in threes, it was perhaps no surprise to our more experienced members that in the evening another request was made...
by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 15:12 this afternoon our team leader received a mobile phone call from NWAS (Lancashire Area) control room requesting the attendance of team vehicles already known to be in the area at what was reported to NWAS as a serious RTC involving two motorcycles and their...
by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 11:35 this morning the team was contacted by Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue service regarding assistance with an incident involving a person on the roof of a building in the Salford City Centre area. A large number of people were already present at the time...
