by admin | Dec 20, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 15:11 this wintry afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Control requesting assistance due to a high volume of calls on the Ambulance Service, directly attributed to the snowy ground conditions. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE agreed that the team was... by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 15.36hrs this wintry afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) for an incident at High Rid Reservoir, Heaton, Bolton. As our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was about to answer this call, he was in turn contacted directly by NWAS (GMA) Belle Vue... by admin | Dec 18, 2010 | 2010, Incident
With some team members still at our Base HQ location checking kit, and cleaning vehicles after all the previous incidents, at 16:58 hours our Team Leader was contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester) to respond to a sledging accident in deep snow on the moorland slopes... by admin | Dec 18, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Our team vehicle involved in the previous incident whilst travelling back to our base on the M61 motorway southbound chanced upon a motorway RTC, at which no other emergency services were present at the time. They stopped to assist, with police arriving shortly... by admin | Dec 18, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Whilst travelling back from the previous incident our BM2 vehicle stopped briefly at Blackburn services on the M65 motorway. Upon leaving, whilst still in the services (in the petrol station area) our BM2 crew noticed a commercial vehicle with a wheel fire. Our team... by admin | Dec 18, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 12:25 hours today our Team Leader was directly contacted by NWAS (Lancashire) to attend a residential address on a steeply sloping housing estate in Darwen, where a 70 year old woman required stretcher evacuation from her property to a waiting NWAS (Lancashire)...