by admin | Mar 5, 2006 | 2006, Incident
GMAS requested the team’s help late this afternoon with direct assistance duties for a GMAS peak demand period. The team was asked to place its four Mountain Rescue Landrovers on full standby at our Ladybridge Hall base, and to respond at the direction of GMAS...
by admin | Mar 5, 2006 | General news
After an initial trial of an Aiguille Alpine trauma sac beginning in June last year, 6 specially designed trauma sacs (1 for each of our 4 vehicles, 1 for our Ladybridge Hall base as an in-use spare and 1 for the Control Trailer) have been brought into service today....
by admin | Mar 4, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 14:03 today the Team Leader was contacted by LAS, who requested our assistance at an incident in Rivington. The team was initially asked to RV at the Rivington Lower Barn, to assist with a sledger who had injured her back. The experience of local area knowledge...
by admin | Mar 4, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 12:05 our Team Leader was contacted by GMAS with the report of 2 children having fallen through the ice, at a lodge in the Hindley Green area. With members already at base locations, and two team vehicles already out in the team’s area, an immediate response was...
by admin | Mar 4, 2006 | General news
As on many previous occasions, the team was happy today to assist Bolton Countryside Ranger Service with some basic map and compass navigation instruction and training. Team members (and it goes without saying expert map readers) Andy Ryding and Fred Taylor met up...
by admin | Mar 3, 2006 | Donations, General news
Today the Team was very pleased to receive a donation of £200 from Margaret and Philip Kirby along with a card of thanks for our assistance on incident 19/2006. Margaret was out walking near Turton Tower on New Year’s Day with her husband, when she slipped...
by admin | Mar 3, 2006 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a donation of £20 from an anonymous source. So, to whoever you are, thanks very much!
by admin | Mar 2, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 13:52, with some team vehicles just returning to the base location from the search in Bury (see Incident 31/2006), the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary, to assist LAS with an incident at Rivington, A 65 year old woman had fractured her leg. Some members...
by admin | Mar 2, 2006 | 2006, Incident
Amidst growing concern and considerable press, TV, and radio coverage, search efforts to find the missing 11 year old recommenced early this morning. In consultation with the Police, the team was initially put on standby and then very quickly called back to the search...
by admin | Mar 1, 2006 | 2006, Incident
At 21:26, with the majority of the team on our regular Wednesday evening training exercise, our Team Leader was contacted directly by GMP regards the request for urgent assistance from the team in the search for a missing 11 year old boy. The boy had been reported...
