by admin | May 27, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 20:55, the Greater Manchester Police Force Duty Officer directly contacted our Team Leader to request the urgent assistance of the team regarding the initial stages of an incident in the vicinity of the Wilton Quarries complex to the North of Bolton. At 21:04, the... by admin | May 26, 2010 | 2010, Incident
With team members about to commence our usual Wednesday evening training exercise, at the venue tonight of Round Barn Quarries, Entwistle, team member Steve Fletcher (who was not on the exercise) contacted our Team Leader direct on the exercise at 20:20, with... by admin | May 23, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Today whilst in the team’s area already covering the latter part of the Darwen Rotary Club Darwen Tower Trudge Sponsored Walk, we became aware of a major moorland fire developing on Rivington Moor. (Maybe it was the huge pall of smoke that gave it away!) NWAS... by admin | May 17, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11.35hrs this morning we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) for the teams assistance with a 60 year old collapsed male casualty in an off road location in the Whitefield area. With some members responding directly, our first team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance,... by admin | May 12, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 00.55hrs early this morning the team was paged by a Greater Manchester Police Missing Person Search Manager regards the teams immediate assistance with a search to locate a vulnerable man in the Redisher Wood area on the moorland fringes above Holcombe Brook, Bury.... by admin | May 9, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 20.15hrs this evening, we were paged by Greater Manchester Police, requesting the teams assistance with a developing search for a missing 79 years old Bolton man. The man had gone missing earlier in the day from a Nursing Home in the Bolton area, and with no sign...