by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | 2006, Incident
A group of very experienced mountain bikers were enjoying their weekly ride on the moors, when one of their members, a 44 year old man from the Cuddington Heath area of Cheshire, suffered an accident, resulting in him being unmounted from his bike. The incident...
by admin | Jul 25, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 21:17 Hrs NWAS (Greater Manchester Locality) paged the Team for assistance required by a GMAS RV driver, who had responded to an incident in the Siddow Common, area of Leigh, involving the report of a male collapsed in some fields. A full Team page call out was...
by admin | Jul 22, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 14.26 hrs the Team was contacted by Lancashire Constabulary on behalf of the North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire locality) to provide assistance with the report of an injured diver at a flooded quarry working. This incident was actually within the operational...
by admin | Jul 21, 2006 | General news
Today the Team received a very kind personal letter of thanks from the gentleman who was missing from Royal Bolton Hospital and was the subject of our call out search on the evening and early morning of Tuesday 4th – Wednesday 5th July #article#1348#incident...
by admin | Jul 20, 2006 | Donations, General news
Today the Team received a wonderful £30 donation from Mr George Sharples, of Little Hulton, Manchester, along with a kind comment explaining that this was a small token of his gratitude to the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team.
by admin | Jul 19, 2006 | General news
Immediately following on from #article#1361#incident 115/2006#, NWAS (Greater Manchester locality) requested the team go to standby to directly assist GMAS with a peak demand situation. This had occured following a serious fire at the Merseyside regional ambulance...
by admin | Jul 19, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 18:28 this evening the team was paged via Lancashire Constabulary, with a request to assist Lancashire Ambulance Service with the initial report of an injured male. The incident location was on the slopes of Darwen Hill, on the track network connecting the...
by admin | Jul 17, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 13:36 the team was paged to provide assistance with an on-scene GMAS crew which had attended an incident in the vicinity of Rivington Hall Barn, involving an injured male. Our first team vehicle went mobile at 13:45. At 13:50 the team was stood down during its...
by admin | Jul 16, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 14.01 Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service paged us for assistance with an incident they had responded to involving a female who had fallen down a 20 feet embankment at Clifton Country Park, overlooking the River Irwell. We were asked to RV at Rake Lane in...
by admin | Jul 16, 2006 | 2006, Incident
Being in a voluntary Search and Rescue organisation dealing with the incidents we generally deal with, there is some pattern to the time one can expect a call out and a time when one can generally expect to relax. Now its not totally uncommon but as a general rule we...
