2002

Then at 11.33, barely five and a half hours after getting into bed, GMP called the Team out again, to search for the woman with a new search area. Searching carried on until last light and the Team stood down again at 17.30 Hrs. For some of those who attended, they had gone into work after searching all night and then returned to carry on searching.
At 19:52 Hrs, that evening, the news came through that the woman had been found at Lancashire Cricket Ground in Old Trafford, some considerable distance from her last known location, safe & well.

At 13:29, GMAS contaced the team for assistance with a male suffering a cardiac arrest on Billinge golf course. The ambulance crew on scene were faced with a long carry to the nearest road.
In the event, the air ambulance, Helimed 08, was able to assist – and the team was stood down whilst making its response.

23.27 GMP paged the Team for urgent assistance for a missing 78 year old woman in the Prestwich area of Manchester. Assembling at Prestwich Police Station at 00:45 Hrs team search parties & a Search Dog team were sent out to search woodland and a steep sided river course. At 06:00 Hrs the team returned home to catch up on some sleep.

GMAS contacted the team at 22:37 to assist with a GMAS Atherton based crew already on scene, at an incident in Horwich. A 15 year old male youth had stumbled whilst crossing a wet and muddy playing field in the dark, sustaining a possible fractured ankle. The GMAS crew required the team to assist with a stretcher carry across the field to the waiting ambulance. Our first members were very quickly on scene and along with the ambulance crew effected a quick stretcher carry. By 23:30 we were all back home, with some members lamenting on their Sunday evening pints that had been abandoned in various hostelries!

Lancashire Ambulance Service paged the team at 11:00 requesting assistance with an incident at woodlands alongside Turton and Entwistle Reservoir. Helimed 08 and a GMAS crew also attended, together with officers from Lancashire Police – the incident was a 68 years old man out walking with family members, who had suffered a cardiac arrest. Sadly, the man was pronounced dead on scene and the team was asked to transport his body via our ambulances, to be received by the coroners’ officer at the roadhead.