by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | Donations, General news
Whilst providing standby rescue cover at this year’s Winter Hill Fell Race, team members at the Lower House MRT RVP Control & Coordination point were approached by two mountain bikers, one of whom, Mr. Chris Ward, introduced himself as the casualty involved...
by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | General news
Another team activity, and yet another tyre puncture on one of our Landrovers, incurred during the course of the Winter Hill Fell Race. So, there we were, at a relatively remote moorland carpark with one flat tyre on our Landrover on a late Sunday morning. One quick...
by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Whilst in the Rivington area providing standby rescue cover for the Winter Hill Fell Race, the team was contacted direct by NWAS (Lancashire area) A&E Control to respond, due to our being in the close vicinity, to the report of an elderly man who had collapsed...
by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | General news
Today the team provided its usual standby safety cover for the annual Winter Hill Fell Race. Heavy snowfalls on Friday evening and the early hours of Saturday had given way this morning to a rapid thaw, low cloud and chilling wet temperatures of 5øC, ideal...
by admin | Feb 10, 2007 | 2007, Incident
By 01:00 this morning all four Landrovers had returned to our LBH base with road conditions in the Bolton area still icy at all levels but with thawing conditions setting in (it was still artic on the local moorlands!). As we were locking up the base at 01:08, NWAS...
by admin | Feb 10, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At the conclusion of the previous incident, our BM2 and BM3 vehicles were immediately despatched to give assistance an NWAS (GMA) Rapid Response Vehicle which following an emergency call in the Markland Hill area of Bolton was now stuck on icy roads and the towing and...
by admin | Feb 10, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 00:04 our vehicles BM2 and BM3 with 7 crew on board, whilst checking out some abandoned vehicles in the Georges Lane area leading to Winter Hill, were called by NWAS (GMA) Control to attend a code red call in the southern part of Horwich involving a 2 year 8 months...
by admin | Feb 9, 2007 | General news
Having missed out on the blizzards that swept the country on Thursday it was our turn this evening with heavy sleet showers during the afternoon giving way to snowfall in the higher parts of Bolton and our moorland areas. As we expected, at 20:45hrs NWAS (Greater...
by admin | Feb 9, 2007 | Donations, General news
On the 18th December 2006, the team responded to a call from GMP to assist in the search with a missing 12 year old girl in the central Wigan area. An immediate team response was made but fortunately the young girl, after being missing overnight was found safe and...
by admin | Feb 7, 2007 | General news
Readers of our website will be familiar that we are holding the two-part introduction to the team sessions for the winter membership intake on Thursday evening 15th February and all day Sunday 18th February, both of which must be attended. To this evening we have...
