by admin | Feb 12, 2004 | General news
Early February saw two long serving team members leave the teams’ active call out list membership. Eddy Crossley, who joined in September 1993, and Mark Parry, who joined in August 1995 have both had to stand down for personal and family commitment reasons. Both...
by admin | Feb 9, 2004 | 2004, Incident
At 16:09 GMAS paged the team, for stretcher evacuation assistance, with regards to a lady with head injuries, in Longsight Park, Harwood, Bolton, who was lying some distance from the nearest GMAS Ambulance access point. 32 Team members responded, with our four team...
by admin | Feb 8, 2004 | General news
On Sunday evening, after the culmination of internal fitments works to our Ladybridge Hall base, (post-actual building refurbishment works had finished), the team formally occupied its new HQ / base premises, with the parking of two of our Landrover Ambulances into...
by admin | Feb 7, 2004 | General news
The team received two sets of special guests at our Ladybridge base, both having travelled a tremendous distance to see us, and both with a purpose in mind. From our colleagues in ALSAR (the Association of Lowland Search and Rescue) came Fred and Margaret Moore, both...
by admin | Feb 6, 2004 | Donations, General news
On November 12th 2003, we reported the team was a beneficiary of a donation to the memory of Liam Robinson, who was accidentally killed at work, aged 35 years old. The accountants handling the donations to Liams memory have now granted to the team £689.33, this...
by admin | Jan 31, 2004 | Donations, General news
We received a cash donation of £145.00, from Derek Thomas of Over Hulton, Bolton, in the memory of Martin Cartwright, of Carwood Grove, Horwich, who died in a road accident. The teams’ sympathies are extended to the family and friends of Martin Cartwright,...
by admin | Jan 31, 2004 | General news
The team is grateful to the support, via the discount offered, by Oxendales (Locksmiths) of the Market Hall, Bolton, with regards to the purchase of a safe for our new base development at Ladybridge Hall, on Saturday, 31st January.
by admin | Jan 28, 2004 | General news
On Wednesday, January 28th, the team completed its transition from Blue to Red, with the full team wide replacement of our Buffalo and Sprayway jackets with a fully comprehensive “KEELA CLOTHING” supplied personal protective and thermal, four item clothing...
by admin | Jan 28, 2004 | 2004, Incident
Whilst on Standby for GMAS, Lancashire Ambulance paged the Team for assistance with a semi-concious woman after a sledging accident in the Tockholes area area. We were able to make an immediate response from our Fire Station location, of 1 Landrover ambulance, and...
by admin | Jan 28, 2004 | 2004, Incident
An early morning pager message from our TL, on Wednesday 28th January, reported that we were now on Standby due to the Wintry Weather, which had fallen that night and continued to do so during the day, for GMAS. 18 Team members manned 4 Landrover Ambulances and did...
