by admin | Nov 7, 2003 | General news
On Friday (and also Saturday 8th November), the team was invited to join a Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service four-wheel off-road driving update course for active fire-fighters. Darwen is fortunate to use one of the three fire service Landrover vehicles in...
by admin | Nov 6, 2003 | Donations, General news
The team received a truly astonishing donation of £2,500.00 from The Sir James & Lady Scott Trust” of Kendal, Cumbria, towards building works at our GMAS provided, Ladybridge base/headquarters developement. The trust has also financially supported us...
by admin | Nov 5, 2003 | General news
Our thanks are expressed to Vodafone for upgrading the Team’s mobile phones to modern state of the art phones, free of charge. Now what Garry our Team Leader doesn’t yet realise is that we can now use his phone as an Internet gateway, whilst on those long...
by admin | Nov 4, 2003 | General news
Tuesday saw Paramedic Paul Moss of GMAS, attend our Bolton Fire Station base in the third visit by RRV Paramedic vehicle crews. Again 8 Team members were present as Paul was shown our casualty care equipment, then he got dispatched on a job returning some 30 mins...
by admin | Nov 2, 2003 | General news
At 19:25 on Sunday, the team was contacted by GMAS control, who requested the team’s assistance for general ambulance calls at a time of excesive demand on the ambulance service. The team mobilised its 4 landrover ambulances immediately, which were crewed by...
by admin | Oct 30, 2003 | General news
Team members Paul and Louise Jorgensen attended the GMAS NHS Trust Awards Ceremony held at the home of Bolton Wanderers Football Club, the Reebok Stadium. The event marked the awards presented to Ambulance Service Staff recognising their achievements over the past...
by admin | Oct 28, 2003 | 2003, Incident
At 13:25, the team was contacted by GMP regarding a search for a 13 year old missing boy, from Bolton, who was believed to be in the Sale water park area of Manchester. A full scale search, including our search dog Chi, took place in atrocious autumn night time...
by admin | Oct 25, 2003 | General news
Saturday 25th October saw a very early start for a full Team call out with a difference. This was the day we were commissioning our new Landrover Defender 110 CSW Ambulance, as a direct replacement for our now elderly Renault minibus. Since receiving this vehicle in...
by admin | Oct 22, 2003 | General news
On Wednesday night’s exercise, our teenage sized dummy was put through its paces so to speak, in an exercise within the Wilton Quarries, to the north of Bolton.
by admin | Oct 22, 2003 | Donations, General news
The team has received a considerable donation of £125.00, from Blackburn Road Runners, for our help with their recent Sunday, October 12th, Weavers Off – Road Half Marathon event, held upon Darwen and Turton Moors, and through Roddlesworth Plantations. (...
