by admin | Feb 24, 2007 | General news
During the early hours of Saturday 24th February, the team whilst assisting NWAS (GMA) responded to 6 incidents, 1 code green, and 5 code ambers, all in the Bolton area. The injuries included ankle injuries and head injuries amongst others, and ranged from a very...
by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | 2007, Incident
On Friday evening 23rd February, readers will be aware that the mainline Virgin train derailed at high speed in the Grayrigg area on the outskirts of Kendal, South Cumbria. A major mobilisation call went out to some of the Cumbrian Mountain Rescue teams, as well as...
by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | 2007, Incident
This was the evening of the Grayrigg rail incident on the outskirts of Kendal, in South Cumbria, which prompted a major incident response by all the relevant emergency services in Cumbria. As part of the overall response to thia major incident, NWAS (Lancashire Area)...
by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 12:40 today our Team Leader was contacted by GMP regards the teams assistance in the ongoing search operation for a missing 75 years old woman in the Carrington area of Greater Manchester. Our Team Leader commenced initial discussions with a Police Missing Person...
by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | General news
In November 2006 Team Member, Tony McNally and Peter Lee of Promethean were invited to speak to a group of Y7 IT students from Darwen Moorland High School about the importance of logos and corporate identity. Peter Lee gave a presentation that clearly illustrated and...
by admin | Feb 22, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today via team member Alan Livesey, we received a kind donation of £20.00 from Mr Alan Baxendale and fellow Masons, from the Mark Lodge of Morecambe. With the donation was a note explaining that Alan Baxendale and his fellow Masons were aware of the work of the...
by admin | Feb 22, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today we received two donations totalling £60.00 in the memory of Mr Harold Marland, who recently died one day after his 95th birthday. A letter with the donations explained that the donations were “instead of flowers and to the memory of our father Harold...
by admin | Feb 19, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a very generous £250 donation from Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletic Club, for our part in providing standby rescue cover on this year’s February 11th Winter Hill Fell Race organised by Horwich RMI H&AC. The team is always...
by admin | Feb 18, 2007 | General news
All 12 people who attended Thursday evening with an interest in joining the team, turned up this morning at 09:00 for a full (exhausting) day of mini-exercises, to give all a flavour of team membership, along with kit demonstrations and very basic stretcher handling...
by admin | Feb 18, 2007 | General news
Early this afternoon, whilst our Team Leader was still at our base ready to go and join the other team members out on the moors with the potential new members, a visitor called in on spec to our Ladybridge Base / HQ who happened to be passing, “saw the lights on...
