by admin | Jun 26, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Early this evening, at circa 18.54hrs, Team Call Out list members Steve Fletcher and Mike Marsh were at Bibby’s Farm Scout Campsite near Chorley (Helping with some climbing instruction – in their capacity as Scout Leaders) when the North West Air Ambulance...
by admin | Jun 26, 2013 | General news
This evening involved climbing practice at Anglezarke Quarry. Here are some images from the evening.
by admin | Jun 26, 2013 | General news
At 14.43hrs this afternoon, NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway paged the team for assistance with the report of an incident on the moors above Horwich. Answered by our Call Out Contact Mike Marsh, the call was in response to a 999 call to NWAS concerning a young female...
by admin | Jun 25, 2013 | General news
This past weekend saw our Trainee DVSD Search Dog Handler Dave Marsh and Trainee Drowned Victims Search Dog Sasha travelling across to Newcastle, Northern Ireland. Dave and Sasha were accompanied by an ex-Police Dog Handler and his puppy [a Belgian Malinois]. They...
by admin | Jun 23, 2013 | General news
Every year the pupils, some of their parents and the teachers at Belmont Primary School, take part in a sponsored walk, which has raised over the years a very considerable sum of money for various charities, ourselves included. The route leads from the School up to...
by admin | Jun 22, 2013 | General news
Today the team was present yet again at this year’s Annual Darwen 999 Emergency Services Day. This annual event, organised as ever by our friend PCSO Nick Gisicz at Darwen, aided by his colleague PCSO Mark Evans, aims to bring together every year all the...
by admin | Jun 21, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 12.50hrs early this sunny and warm afternoon, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway, for our assistance with the evacuation of an injured dog walker in the Radcliffe area. The 48 years old woman involved, from Radcliffe, had been walking her dog on open...
by admin | Jun 20, 2013 | General news
This evening 29x Team Call Out list members, (Kindly assisted by Robert Leigh, the son of team member Gillian Leigh and her husband, ex team member and former Team Deputy Leader Ian Leigh) in our four Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances and our Minibus / Crewbus...
by admin | Jun 20, 2013 | Donations, General news
This evening very long serving and experienced Team Call Out list member Diane Blakeley attended as the teams representative, an invitation from the Rotary Club of Turton to their annual ‘Charitable Donations 2013 Ceremony Evening,’ at the Last Drop...
by admin | Jun 20, 2013 | General news
Today very early this morning four Trainee Team Call Out List members, Jess Ellsmore, Doctor Mark Jeffrey, Chris Weatherhead and Michael Wakerley, journeyed in our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle ‘BM1’ to Cheshire Fire and Rescue...