by admin | Jan 17, 2016 | 2016, Incident
At 15.43hrs this snowy afternoon, whilst still present at Incident 17/2016 at Whitefield, we were paged by NWAS (Cumbria and Lancashire) Broughton EOC, to respond to assist with an incident at Prestolee, Bolton. A woman walker, aged 45, had fractured her ankle, whilst... by admin | Jan 17, 2016 | 2016, Incident
At 14.42hrs this snowy afternoon, whilst still present at Incident 16 at Rivington, we were paged by NWAS (Cumbria and Lancashire) Broughton EOC, to respond to assist with a snow sledging accident in fields near to Stand Lane, Whitefield, within Greater Manchester.... by admin | Jan 17, 2016 | 2016, Incident
At 14.12hrs this snowy Sunday we were paged by NWAS (Cumbria and Lancashire) Broughton EOC, to respond to assist with a snow sledging accident at Rivington, involving a thirty year old woman. Due to the existing snowy conditions, team members were present at our... by admin | Jan 15, 2016 | 2016, Incident
Today Steve Nelson, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler, with his Search Dog Boris, deployed to Kendal, to assist with an on going search operation for a missing woman in the area, which had involved LDSAMRA search assets assisting Cumbria Constabulary,... 
by admin | Jan 6, 2016 | 2016, Incident
Our first full team callout of 2016 was initiated today as a result of a request from NWAS Emergency Operations Centre, Broughton. The team was contacted via SARCALL at 12:50 this afternoon with the report of a male lying injured on moorland near to Piccadilly Farm,... by admin | Jan 3, 2016 | 2016, Incident
At 10.31hrs this very wet and damp morning, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received a mobile phone call from a concerned member of the public, who whilst walking with her daughter and son in the Rivington area, had become separated from her fifteen year old son, and...