by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | General news
The pictures below show some of the conditions on the roads around our team area following the snowfall and blizzards of Friday night, Saturday morning. Walkers Fold Road near the Bob Smithy Public House by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 19.48hrs this evening, with strong winds, drifting snow and treacherous local road conditions (Away from major roads) the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton, to attend to two separate incidents on the steep moorland fringe residential road of... by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | General news
With the conclusion of Incident 42, and Incidents 43 and 44 having ended, Team member Steve Fletcher took our Land Rover BM3 to his home address, and team members Nigel Booth and Mike O’Brien in Land Rover BM4 all maintained a team vehicle ‘crewed... by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 01.56hrs, the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC Broughton, regarding an Emergency Ambulance unable to access a casualty address in Darwen due to snow, with a requirement for the team to stretcher evacuate the casualty to the Ambulance. With team members... by admin | Mar 22, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 23.54hrs the team was paged by NWAs (Manchester) EOC Parkway to respond to an incident in Darwen, where an Emergency Ambulance en route to a casualty was stuck in the snow and icy road conditions prevailing. Our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon in his 4×4 was... by admin | Mar 22, 2013 | 2013, Incident
At 22.14hrs this evening, with strong winds and driving snow even at the low levels where our Team Leader lives in Tyldesley, Garry Rhodes MBE our Team Leader, received a direct call from the Force Incident Manager at Lancashire Constabulary. Lancashire Constabulary... by admin | Mar 22, 2013 | General news
The TV, Internet, Twitter, Radio, Newspapers and Facebook were all talking about the snow to come, yet this morning dawned bright and cold with no ‘white stuff’ falling from the skies. At 10.15hrs this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted... by admin | Mar 20, 2013 | General news
Tonight fifty one team members, including 36x Full Team Call Out list members, 2x Reserve Call Out list members, 1x Trainee Team member, 6x Probationary Team members, and 6x members of our Support Group, jointly attended our Annual General Meeting and our Election of... by admin | Mar 20, 2013 | Donations, General news
Today via Team Call Out list member Kris Kilshaw, we are happy to report the receipt of a kind £5.00 donation from team supporter Gareth Ratcliffe (Osteopath) of Chorley Old road, Bolton. by admin | Mar 19, 2013 | General news
Further to our recent reports on our website regarding the progress of the ’production’ of our new Incident Control Vehicle, today four members from our Incident Control Vehicle project team, met with Coleman Milne of Wigan Road, Westhoughton, who are...