Safety cover for Weavers Marathon

Safety cover for Weavers Marathon

28 team members, with our four team vehicles (and Dave Healey’s vehicle, in use as a radio link), provided Standby rescue Cover for the “Weavers Off Road Half Marathon” fell race, starting through the Tockholes plantations, and up onto Turton and...
Safety cover for Weavers Marathon

Incident 75/2003

At 15:40, GMAS called out the team to assist with a 25 year old male, with a reported fractured ankle, the location being Wardley Wood on the Worsley / Swinton boundary. At 15:53 the team was stood down, with one Landrover Ambulance and a large number of team members...
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Meanwhile, not too far away…

Whilst half the team were at Manchester Airport, the rest were taking part in a typically wet autumn nights training exercise, alongside the latest recruit to the team. A chance meeting, whilst we were at the recent Bolton Fire Station open day, saw Phil Frain, the Co...
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Manchester Airport visit

Tonight’s training session saw 16 Team members travel to Manchester International Airport, to have a presentation from Leading Fire Fighter Paul Johnson, White Watch, on various aspects of aircraft scene preservation and also personal protection at an aircraft...
Safety cover for Weavers Marathon

Huge donation for team kit from Bellway!

Fantastic news! Bellway Homes, the developers of our former base / HQ site at Overdale, presented to our Chairman, Tony McNally, a cheque for £3000.00, towards the purchase of our new team clothing, currently on order at “KEELA”. The team is...