by admin | Dec 10, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At 13:52 this afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Belle Vue ECC, for assistance at an incident involving a resident in the rear of his property, where he had fallen injuring himself in his garden at Lever Park Avenue, Horwich, at the entrance to Lever...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | 2011, Incident
The team was on hand to provide stand by rescue cover for the annual Two Lads Fell Race, with thirty team members involved and 211x competitors, when at 20.03hrs news was received that a competitor had fallen on the outward stage of the race in the Wilderswood area,...
by admin | Jan 8, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At circa 10:00 our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE in his co-ordinator role with NWAS (Manchester) control was contacted by despatcher Katherine, to mobilise the team to a Residential Care Home in Horwich, where an Emergency Ambulance couldn’t reach the location due to...
by admin | Dec 21, 2009 | 2009, Incident
As with the previous call, NWAS (Manchester) again contacted our Team Leader, this time at 12:40, to request the team attend a nearby residential address in the Horwich area, where a woman was suffering a serious asthma attack. Three team members were despatched in...
by admin | Jun 21, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Today 26x team members were present to provide standby rescue cover and casualty care provision for the annual Horwich Carnival Races. (see seperate news item) Although our services were not required by any of the event competitors, we did respond to two street...