by admin | Feb 7, 2007 | General news
On the evening of Wednesday 1st March 2006 the team was called out to a search incident in Bury where an 11 year old local boy, Joe Geeling, had disappeared. The team searched through that night and into the early hours of the following morning in freezing conditions...
by admin | Feb 6, 2007 | Donations, General news
On the 29th July last year, Chorley and District Young Farmers (consisting of young famers in the Chorley, Lostock and Bolton areas) held their annual charity hog roast at Chew Moor in the Lostock area of Bolton. The charity hog roast, held at the Moss Hall Farm of...
by admin | Feb 5, 2007 | General news
Readers of our website will be familiar with the terrible accident that befell our search dog Chi at the end of June last year, resulting in Chi having one of his front legs almost completely severed. In a groundbreaking unique operation, search dog Chi has spent the...
by admin | Feb 4, 2007 | General news
Today five Team members journeyed to Winsford, Cheshire, after taking up the invitation to take full participation in the practical part of the ATACC MERIT course. The ATACC MERIT course is a brand new Anaesthesia Trauma & Critical Care course with a major...
by admin | Feb 3, 2007 | General news
Viewers of our website following the progress and recovery of ex team member, and ex local Church Minister Mike Thomason, now serving as a Chaplain with the British Army, will be pleased to hear that in late December he left the Birmingham Hospital where he was...
by admin | Jan 31, 2007 | General news
As reported on our news entry dated Thursday 25th January, we did indeed take delivery this evening of an Aireshelta from the Aire Group Limited, who delivered the shelter to our Ladybridge Hall base direct. This air inflated shelter has been purchased at a total cost...
by admin | Jan 30, 2007 | Donations, General news
With thanks to ex team member and Headteacher Gela Griffiths of Mayfield School, Gloucester Road, Chorley, the team received today the wonderful donation of 6x Ordnance Survey West Pennine Moors 1:25,000 maps from the School. All at the team are grateful to all at...
by admin | Jan 29, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 12:56 early this afternoon NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) paged the team, requesting assistance in a Peak Demand situation with emergency calls exceeding their available resources. (Our colleagues in Oldham MRT were also contacted) One Team vehicle with a two man...
by admin | Jan 28, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 14:59 this afternoon, NWAS (Lancashire Area) control contacted our Team Leader direct to request the team’s assistance with the report of a person collapsed in the Roddlesworth area. Ambulance Control had also despatched Helimed 08 and an ambulance to the incident....
by admin | Jan 27, 2007 | General news
We have had an excellent response to date for new team members, with 21 enquiries, resulting in 10 confirmations so far to attend our two part ” Introduction to Team Membership ” sessions, on Thursday evening 15th February and all day Sunday 18th February....
