by admin | Jul 16, 2003 | General news
Wednesday evening saw 19 Team members journey to Manchester International Airport, no not to go on Holiday together, but to visit the Fire & Rescue Service at the Airport. Our thanks must be extended to Paul Johnson who organised this evenings training only to...
by admin | Jul 13, 2003 | General news
A team Collection evening held this evening at ASDA Mossbank way, attended by 9 Team members, rasied £83.13, with all thanks due to the shoppers that evening at ASDA.
by admin | Jul 12, 2003 | 2003, Incident
At 20:17, GMAS paged the team regarding an incident where a child had fallen off a rope swing in Edgworth. 25 team members responded to this incident, and our first members were on scene by 20:33 – however, we were stood down a few minutes later – just as...
by admin | Jul 11, 2003 | General news
The team were out with the collecting buckets at the Safeway (Breighmet) store, and thanks to the generosity of the shoppers (and of course the store for allowing us to collect!) we raised £35.95 for team funds.
by admin | Jul 7, 2003 | General news
9 team members ran a presentation, to demonstrate the teams’ capabilities to the extremely enthusiastic firefighters at Green watch at the GMCFS Bolton North fire station. The firefighters were most interested (and apparently, impressed!) with our rope rescue...
by admin | Jul 6, 2003 | General news
Once again the Bolton team fully supported the MRC (England & Wales) national party leader training course, held over the weekend of 4th – 6th July at the excellent venue of Rishworth School, Ripponden, West Yorkshire. Our team leader, Garry Rhodes,...
by admin | Jul 5, 2003 | 2003, Incident
At 21:16, GMAS called us out, to what became a large scale multi agency response to the report received via GMCFS of a hot air balloon crashing in the area of Delph reservoir in the West Pennine Moors. GMAS, GMCFS, GMP and BMRT all responded (ourselves with 4 vehicles...
by admin | Jul 5, 2003 | General news
An Saturday afternoon, 19 team members provided standby rescue cover for the annual Tockholes Gala fell race, organised by Darwen Dashers. 99 competitors took part, with no incidents to mar an excellent turnout.
by admin | Jul 4, 2003 | Donations, General news
Early July and we also can thank St Andrews Mothers Union, Bromley Cross for a generous £25 donation following on from a lecture we did in March. Susan O’Hara in her letter wrote ’You do a wonderful job and are very dedicated people’ Our thanks...
by admin | Jul 1, 2003 | General news
Well we started off the month by sitting back and relaxing a little. Who would have believed that over 4 days in June we had 11 incidents, which represents 20% of the total number of incidents we have had this year!! And there is still another 6 months to go.
