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 9, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 21.27hrs this evening Greater Manchester Police paged the team to provide assistance with the recovery of a 35 year old deceased male from dense woodland in the Atherton Wood area of Howe Bridge, Leigh. At the time of call the team was put on standby at our...
by admin | Jul 20, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Early this evening a body was chanced upon by passing hillwalkers in the vicinity of Pickup Bank Reservoir, Belthorn, Darwen. This resulted in an immediate response by Lancashire Constabulary officers and the North West Ambulance Service (Lancashire). At 18:38 the...
by admin | Apr 28, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 23:24, very late this evening the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) Paramedic Emergency control regarding assistance with an off road bike accident in the Pennington Flash Country Park area. The pager call was answered by our Team Leader whilst other...
by admin | Mar 21, 2008 | 2008, Incident
A Team Landrover Ambulance, already in the area – see previous story, relocating to a different holding point, chanced upon a tragic incident today. A male out walking in the Lever Park area of Rivington, in the company of two other persons, suffered a collapse....