by admin | Jan 1, 2002 | 2002, Incident
The first “non-ambulance assist” call of the year was to a male rambler who slipped in the snow – and banged his head on stone steps near in the Rivington area. We were called to the scene along with the air ambulance and were required to marshal a...
by admin | Dec 31, 2001 | General news
Finally we ended the year with 59 incidents recorded (despite an almost 6 month closure of our teams moorland area due to FMD), making this our fourth busiest year ever.
by admin | Dec 29, 2001 | General news
Today our Team Leader of the past 13 years, Garry Rhodes, was honoured by the Bolton Evening News to be named one of seven recipients of the “Bolton Special People” award. The awards aim to highlight the activities of Bolton’s “hundreds of...
by admin | Dec 23, 2001 | 2001, Incident
We spent today on the moorland roads in our area, and were called upon to pull out a tow truck, that had come to rescue another tow truck, that had become stuck when trying to pull out a car! Incident 54/2001: Tow truck recovery!
by admin | Dec 19, 2001 | General news
At our Christmas social evening, at Bob’s Smithy tonight, our Christmas Cake raffle raised £65 for the team. Special thanks go to team members Dale & Anne-marie Webb for baking the cake.
by admin | Dec 14, 2001 | 2001, Incident
Today we were called to an animal rescue to bring a sheep up from a vertical bank at Anglezarke reservoir. Obviously thinking “that looks like a nice patch of grass”, the sheep decided to leap over a wall and promptly fell some 25 feet, into the water. The...
by admin | Dec 12, 2001 | General news
News regarding our involvement in the Commonwealth Games Mountain Bike and Road Cycle events, with meetings having taken place with the Accreditation Group, and our team leaders. We took representatives from GMAS, SJAB, and the Doctors Group on an inspection visit of...
by admin | Dec 12, 2001 | General news
Tony Coupe and Andrew Crichton have left the team due to work commitments (after 3 years service and 1 years service respectively). We wish them the best for the future… and we now have vacancies for new members.
by admin | Dec 12, 2001 | Donations, General news
We’ve also had two more Christmas presents in the form of donations: £10 from the Ladies Club of St. Johns Methodist Church, and £60 from Miss S. Hart, purveyor of jams & marmalades.
by admin | Dec 9, 2001 | General news
Great news from our Toner Cartridge Appeal, with a cheque for £953.70p recently received with obvious thanks to all our collectors.
