by admin | Apr 30, 2014 | General news
Early this afternoon, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE made one of his routine ‘liaison’ visits to the North West Air Ambulance Helimed 72 / 75 crews at City Airport Manchester (Barton) He passed on details of recent joint incidents attended, copies of our latest...
by admin | Apr 29, 2014 | General news
The team has been made aware of an accident which has occurred recently to Oldham Mountain Rescue Team very experienced and long serving Team Call Out list member Phil Beard. The following statement has been made public today by Phil’s colleagues in Oldham MRT via...
by admin | Apr 24, 2014 | General news
With those team members employed, all in or on their way to work this morning, the ‘retired’ folk and shift workers in the team didn’t get a chance of a lay in, as our pagers went off at 08.22hrs for an incident in the Whitefield area. Very quickly, at 08.26hrs North...
by admin | Apr 22, 2014 | General news
Readers will recall that on Good Friday, 18th April 2014, we responded to an incident involving a young 11 years old girl, who had sustained a serious knee injury, after stumbling on the slopes of Rivington Pike. The young girl, who had been enjoying the Good Friday...
by admin | Apr 22, 2014 | General news
In December last year (2013) we were contacted via the MREW (Mountain Rescue England and Wales) Vehicles Officer with details of an offer which was available to all of us within the UK Voluntary Land Search and Rescue community. This incredibly kind and very...
by admin | Apr 19, 2014 | 2014, General news, Incident
During our provision of Standby Rescue Cover for the Annual Rivington Pike Fell Race, at 14.59hrs, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway, for the team to lend assistance to a local incident in Horwich, involving a...