by admin | Jan 1, 2002 | 2002, Incident
The second call of the day was to assist with the recovery of a man’s body from Hindsford Brook, Atherton. The police have said there were no suspicious circumstances.
by admin | Jan 1, 2002 | 2002, Incident
The first “non-ambulance assist” call of the year was to a male rambler who slipped in the snow – and banged his head on stone steps near in the Rivington area. We were called to the scene along with the air ambulance and were required to marshal a...
by admin | Dec 23, 2001 | 2001, Incident
We spent today on the moorland roads in our area, and were called upon to pull out a tow truck, that had come to rescue another tow truck, that had become stuck when trying to pull out a car! Incident 54/2001: Tow truck recovery!
by admin | Dec 14, 2001 | 2001, Incident
Today we were called to an animal rescue to bring a sheep up from a vertical bank at Anglezarke reservoir. Obviously thinking “that looks like a nice patch of grass”, the sheep decided to leap over a wall and promptly fell some 25 feet, into the water. The...
by admin | Dec 1, 2001 | 2001, Incident
On Saturday December 1st we responded to A SARDA call to assist Bowland-Pennine MRT in a search for a missing 20 year old student in Lancaster, 1 Bolton dog team involved. The student had not been seen since celebrating his 20th birthday, a week ago. On Wednesday...
by admin | Nov 22, 2001 | 2001, Incident
Today we took a SARDA call to assist a NEWSART (North East Wales Search and Rescue Team) search for a missing (suicidal) 30 year old male in the Ellesmere Port area. 1 Bolton Dog team (Search dog “Chi”, handler Dave Marsh & navigator) was sent and...