by admin | Aug 15, 2012 | 2012, Incident
Our third call out of the day for team member and Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson /Search Dog Boris. (Actually the third operational deployment for the pair in a continuous eighteen hour period today!) At 19.00hrs this evening, whilst resting from his intense search... by admin | Aug 15, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 09.25hrs this morning, we were contacted via SARCALL and pager by Lancashire Constabulary, to further assist in the continuation of the search of this morning for a missing 59 year old Blackburn man. With the main focus of the search operation likely to be to the... by admin | Aug 15, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 00.44hrs in the early hours of this morning, the team was contacted via SARCALL and pager by Lancashire Constabulary requesting the teams immediate assistance in relation to a missing person. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE who initially... by admin | Aug 13, 2012 | General news
Late this morning we welcomed to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ Paul Chamberlain, Chair of Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue Team. Paul was met by Team Call Out list members Dave Marsh and Martin Banks, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and our Secretary Gillian... by admin | Aug 13, 2012 | General news
We can now confirm (Sadly) the identity of the deceased male we recovered from Cox Green Quarry, Egerton, late on the evening of Friday 10th August 2012 and into the early hours of Saturday 11th August 2012. (Please see Incident 56-2012 dated the same) As widely... by admin | Aug 13, 2012 | General news
This morning at 10.55hrs our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) ECC requesting the teams assistance with an incident in fields adjacent Brandlesholme Road, Bury in the area of Birks Drive, Brandlesholme. A female casualty was... by admin | Aug 12, 2012 | General news
At our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ, besides our main building which consists of a large double-bay garage and integral lecture rooms, storage rooms, kitchen & office, we also have a seperate outbuilding with mixed toilets, a shower and vehicle cleaning rooms. This... by admin | Aug 11, 2012 | 2012, Incident
Today, whilst in North Wales on a SARDA (Wales) training course weekend, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler, Steve Nelson, was contacted at circa 11:30 by Oldham MRT regarding his specialist assistance with a search operation in the South East part of... by admin | Aug 10, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 21.49hrs late this evening, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by a GMP Divisional Police Sergeant, requesting the team’s specialist services for a body recovery operation at Cox Green Quarry, Egerton, Bolton. Earlier the body of a male had... by admin | Aug 10, 2012 | Donations, General news
Way back in August 2005, Iain Bisset whilst climbing with his father and fellow climber David Bisset, at Ousel’s Nest Quarry, Chapeltown, suffered injuries in a climbing accident, to which the team and the ambulance service were called. Iain thankfully went on...