by admin | Feb 24, 2008 | General news
Following this years membership intake, which included appeals in the local press for new members, we had a total of 49 applicants, inclusive of 5 from women. Overall the standard of initial application was very high. From the 49 applicants 19 people took up the... by admin | Feb 24, 2008 | General news
Congratulations today to the following trainee team members, who have now completed their 12 month trainee team period to the full satisfaction of the team. We are therefore pleased to announce today that Brian Brooks, Matthew Hailwood, Peter Heeley, Blake Jackson,... by admin | Feb 22, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Late tonight, NWAS(GMA) contacted the Team Leader via telephone to enquire if we could help as part of their step-up procedure with a sudden increase in emergency calls on this busy Friday night. Three vehicles were made available to NWAS (GMA) crewed by 8 team... by admin | Feb 21, 2008 | 2008, Incident
In the early hours of the morning at 04:47 the team was paged by GMFRS regarding an incident in the Little Lever / Radcliffe area. This call was concurrently answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes and Deputy Leader Geoff Seddon. They learnt from Fire Service control... by admin | Feb 20, 2008 | General news
This February saw one part of the culmination of our Mountain Rescue Casualty Care Certificate Course for our team members, which has to be renewed every 3 years. The team prides itself in any one year in trying to have its entire membership current with this...