We were called to assist @NWAmbulance yesterday with a casualty on a riverbed in Roddlesworth, and bumped into @DragonflyFilmTV who were filming for the next series of BBC Ambulance.. more details at facebook.com/58756182794365… pic.twitter.com/FuUq4kqcT4
In June 2020 we sent over ten fire engines, to a moorland fire upon Darwen Moor as well as a lot of resources from @unitedutilities @BoltonMRT and other agencies attending this major incident incident. @DCCWoods has confirmed that two Lancashire residents have now been charged. twitter.com/DCCWoods/statu…
Callout from @NWAmbulance to Turton today to extract a 59 year old woman back to the road after a fall on ice - details at m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… pic.twitter.com/Jvrk5DsAli
Some roads & footpaths have been closed to keep people as safe as possible, you can view these road closures at: secure.manchester.gov.uk/info… This page will be updated throughout the night. 6/7 pic.twitter.com/uVmMv363aF
We have issued a severe #flood warning for #EastDidsbury #WestDidsbury and #Northenden which means a threat to life and significant disruption. We are working with the emergency services to keep communities to keep people safe. Updates ➡️ od-warning-information.servic… pic.twitter.com/Ue0KEP0snL
Do you live within these postcodes? - M20 2, M20 5 - M21 7, M21 8, M21 9 - M22 4 Check the Flood Warning Service: orlo.uk/MyPZK Evacuation support if needed: orlo.uk/dEVYn pic.twitter.com/RZCIS7fOP0
A large number of police officers are being deployed to areas within Didsbury alongside colleagues from @manchesterfire to support @ManCityCouncil with evacuating residents at risk of flooding from #StormChristoph
⚠️ Severe Flood Warning covering parts of Didsbury, Chorlton & Northenden ⚠️ Please share the below image with friends, family & networks should anyone need info on how to prepare, what to expect & who to contact for urgent care/support. Learn more: orlo.uk/xlwsb pic.twitter.com/AMelNkAY5U
@HayleyH51368106 @ManCityCouncil @gmpolice @EnvAgency You can see the area here od-warning-information.servic…
Important information - evacuations due to flooding twitter.com/ManCityCouncil…
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May 27 2011
Team bids a fond farewell to the last of its 1999 purchased Land Rovers, as ‘Nellie’ goes off to a new home.
This evening three members of the team waved a fond farewell to an old team favorite, our Incident Support Vehicle, Bolton Mobile 6 (BM6), which until April 20th this year was always known as Bolton Mobile 3 (BM3)
BM6 was based upon a Land Rover Defender 110 Van Td5, and proudly carried the name ‘Nellie,’ in direct honour and as a tribute to the late Miss Ellen Sykes, who left a substantial bequest to the team in 1999, enabling the purchase of this vehicle outright. (Nellie was how the late Miss Ellen Sykes preferred to be referred as, and her full name also appeared on this vehicle. A memorial plaque to her exists in our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ)
The vehicle was originally purchased at the same time as two Land Rover Defender 110 County Td5 vehicles (Both very kindly purchased by the National Lottery) in September 1999, with a grand total of 25 miles on the clock from LEX Bury, for £16,517.00 exclusive of extensive works subsequently carried out by Frank Hulton Motor Engineers.
BM6 or to use the more familiar name of BM3 actually entered team service on April 5th 2000, after extensive internal refit works and external works by Frank Hulton of Frank Hulton Motor Engineers, Farnworth.
It has served the team very well over all its time in our service, principally as a carrier of equipment, and as a Control and Command vehicle, when our the use of our Control Trailer was not required by the nature of some incidents.
Its sale closely follows that of its stable mates, which were recently sold onto NEWSAR team in North Wales, following its and their replacement by three brand new Land Rover team vehicles in April this year.
Team members present tonight, consisted of our Equipment Officer Vehicles Chris Greenhalgh, Elaine Gilliland our Training Officer and Steven Fletcher our Equipment Officer Communications, who jointly handed over the vehicle keys (and of course the vehicle) to its new owner, the Chairman and Deputy Team Leader of Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team, Graham Dalley.
The vehicle was sold for £7,000.00, which will now join other team funds set against our new Control Vehicle Project which will replace our existing Control Trailer.
Its last operational call out was Incident 39, yesterday evening on 26th May 2011. It also saw particular ’heavy’ use during the recent operations to support Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service with the large scale fire centred upon Anglezarke Moor.
It was handed over with 40,567 miles on the clock, after just over 11 years in our service.
Although we are sad to see the vehicle leave the team’s service, we are delighted that although it has been sold privately, it is to a member of another mountain rescue team, who will now use it in connection with his business, but will also respond to incidents in his own team in it, so in a very real sense, it remains in mountain rescue, and the late Miss Ellen Sykes kindness to us in 1999 lives on.
(We continue to honour the late Miss Ellen Sykes, with our brand new Land Rover BM3 vehicle, which proudly continues to carry her full name, and her more familiar name of ’Nellie.’)
By admin • General news