by admin | Nov 9, 2005 | Donations, General news
Tonight our Communications Officer Dave Healey, who seemed to be in a good mood, was seen to be giving away kit left, right & centre to Ray Milne of Cheshire Lowland Search & Rescue Team. Today Dave gave Cheshire some base antennas and vehicle/base radios...
by admin | Nov 9, 2005 | Donations, General news
Today our Fundraising Officer received the news that after our attendance at the Hare & Hounds Bonfire & Fireworks display (see earlier article), the pub have split the proceeds of the evening between Bolton MRT and the Pensioners Party, another local charity...
by admin | Nov 8, 2005 | 2005, Incident
Very late this evening, our Search Dog Handler Dave Marsh was called out to respond to an urgent search in Lancashire, to assist our colleagues in Rossendale and Pendle MRT. A car had crashed on the Bacup to Burnley Road, with the driver seriously injured and two...
by admin | Nov 6, 2005 | 2005, Incident
At 14:25 today, Lancashire Constabulary paged the Team for a Lancashire Ambulance Assistance job, at the same time a Team vehicle was also in contact with LAS regarding the same incident. At 14:30 a full Team call out was paged, regarding a 33 year old male with a...
by admin | Nov 4, 2005 | General news
This evening, seven team members, one Support Group member and two of their partners were pleased to represent the team at a Bonfire held at the Hare and Hounds Public House, Abbey Village. They attended along with a Team Landrover. The publicans had very kindly...
by admin | Nov 2, 2005 | General news
Well we certainly lit up the moors this evening during our regular Wednesday evening training session. A search and find exercise, including three groups and four exercise casualties (brave souls out on this wet evening with an even wetter ground to lie on), ended...
by admin | Oct 30, 2005 | Donations, General news
The team is grateful to team member and honorary president Bob Hutchinson for the donation received into team stock today of seven assorted climbing and winter mountaineering guidebooks. (Perhaps this is an acknowledgement by Bob that his days on the hill are now...
by admin | Oct 30, 2005 | 2005, Incident
At 14:47, whilst one of our Landrovers with three members on board was parked up at Lower House car park, they were made aware of mountain bike accident which had taken place very close by. The three team members on scene immediately responded and also contacted LAS....
by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | 2005, Incident
At 17:08 the team was paged by GMAS Control for assistance with a 15 year old female who had fallen from a rope swing in the steep ravine of Unity Brook, Kearsley. A very fast team response was made with our Team Leader arriving first on scene at 17:25, to be met by...
by admin | Oct 28, 2005 | Donations, General news
We received today the kind donation of £150 from the congregation of Christ Church CoE, Walshaw, Bury. The whole team is very grateful to the church group for their kindness in donating such a large amount of money.
