by admin | Apr 26, 2003 | General news
Not wishing to be out done by our Team Leader, Garry ’I have lots of shiny medals’ Rhodes. It’s with great pleasure we can announce that our Deputy Team Leader & MR newbie Geoff Seddon is to be awarded the Horwich Civic Award. Its one of three...
by admin | Apr 26, 2003 | General news
Saturday, 26th April, saw the team participating in another major exercise with Greater Manchester County Fire Service, FIREBOLT III (another example of Garry our Leader stretching his imagination to the fullest for an exercise name), which took place in Wilton 1...
by admin | Apr 25, 2003 | Donations, General news
Further to our Good Friday incident, we received a nice surprise soon afterwards, when a donation arrived from the injured ladies group concerned, totaling £117.37, expressing thanks to the Team for our part in the rescue of their friend. The Team is very...
by admin | Apr 24, 2003 | General news
April 24th and we received a donation of £15 from Mrs Joyce Laks of Bolton, who had received a cheque for this amount for her recent birthday, from a friend who is a hill walker. Mrs Laks thought it would be a nice gesture to pass the cheque onto the Team, a big...
by admin | Apr 23, 2003 | General news
Representing the growing liaison and relationship the Team has with Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, on Wednesday 23rd April, the Team was invited to attend the second meeting of the “Greater Manchester Emergency Care Specialist Emergency Care Sub...
by admin | Apr 19, 2003 | General news
Easter Saturday 19th April and the fine weather of yesterday was replaced by colder, windier weather of today for the annual Rivington Pike Fell Race. As usual we provided Standby Rescue Cover for this event, including both the Junior & Senior (over 200 runners)...
by admin | Apr 18, 2003 | General news
Saw 22 Team members present, with Team vehicles, in the Rivington Pike area, for the busy ’Pike Fair’ annual celebrations, attracting thousands to the area. Blessed with very warm, sunny weather, avoiding grass fires, finding missing children (well we had...
by admin | Apr 18, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Good Friday April 18th LAS telephoned the Team for assistance with an injured Female rambler at Wayoh reservoir, Turton. Already at the Rivington Pike Good Friday celebrations, so it saw a quick deployment of Team vehicles to Turton. But we were hampered by the...
by admin | Apr 16, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Wednesday 16th April saw our usual Team Training night, replaced with our first Call from GMCFS. During the day GMCFS had been dealing with many moorland fires, at one time up to 20 appliances had been deployed. As the evening started to draw in we were asked to...
by admin | Apr 13, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Barely 1 hour after leaving our Base and heading for home, we were called again by Lancashire Police for a search for a missing 8 year old male in the area of Roddlesworth. The young lad had gone for a walk with his family and had got separate in the woodland. Just as...
