by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | Donations, General news
We are very happy to report the receipt today of a very kind and wonderful £120.00 donation from our long standing friends and supporters at Darwen Dashers Running Club. On Friday evening, 22nd February this year, the team provided standby rescue cover for the... by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | General news
Not previously reported, is the great news that at the SARDA (Wales) Training and Assessment weekend over this last snowy weekend, our specialist Search Dog handler Steve Nelson and his Trailing Dog Boris, were graded after an intensive and exacting assessment to Full... by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | General news
On Wednesday 13th March 2013, we reported on twenty two team members taking part in the written examination for their MREW Mountain Rescue Casualty Care Course, the culmination of many months of training and study, held within the teams training programme. Eighteen... by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | General news
This evening the team formally welcomed eight new Trainee Call Out list members into the team. All eight had originally joined our October 2012 Team membership recruitment session, and were taken on as ‘Probationary Team members,’ for the time since.... by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | General news
The pictures below show some of the conditions on the roads around our team area following the snowfall and blizzards of Friday night, Saturday morning. Walkers Fold Road near the Bob Smithy Public House by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | General news
With the conclusion of Incident 42, and Incidents 43 and 44 having ended, Team member Steve Fletcher took our Land Rover BM3 to his home address, and team members Nigel Booth and Mike O’Brien in Land Rover BM4 all maintained a team vehicle ‘crewed...