by admin | Nov 18, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 13:49 today the team received a pager notification from NWAS (Lancashire Area) that Helimed 08 (North West Air Ambulance helicopter) was on route to an incident in the Rivington Moor/Winter Hill area. Team members already at our base and those already out in the... by admin | Nov 4, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Whilst packing away kit at the end of our tower crane exercise in Manchester City Centre, at 14:32 the team was called direct by NWAS (GMA) to respond to the report of a 68 year old male walker who had collapsed in the area of Crank Hill, Billinge, in fields away from... by admin | Oct 21, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 17:15 Hrs today whilst 5 Team members were co-incidentally at our LBH base, including our TL, a GMP Missing Person Search Manager contacted our Team Leader by mobile phone requesting the immediate services of the Team in connection with an urgent search for a... by admin | Oct 20, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Along with our colleagues in Oldham MRT and Rossendale & Pendle MRT, the Team was requested by GMP, with advanced previous notice, to take part in a preplanned search operation scheduled for today, to try and locate a long term missing 50 year old male in the... by admin | Oct 14, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Whilst the Bolton MRT were hosting their annual Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue weekend (see separate story) and large elements of the team were deployed around a series of mini exercise locations in the Lower House area of Rivington, the team was paged by... by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | 2007, Incident
A rather unusual and early time for NWAS ( Greater Manchester Area ) Belle Vue Emergency Control to be paging the team, but at 07.45hrs this morning our pagers ’rung’ (Webmaster, should that be ’toned’) into action requesting we contact NWAS (GMA) Control. Answered...