by admin | Dec 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This evening our Team Leader became aware of a developing possible major incident involving a train crash in the Congleton area of Cheshire. Aware of the mountain rescue involvement which had taken place during the Greyrigg train disaster in Cumbria our Team Leader...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 15:51 hours we were contacted by NWAS (Manchester) to respond to the report of a football player at Goshen Lane Sports Club, Redvales, Bury, who had suffered a serious leg fracture. Our 4 Landrover ambulances plus BM5 (the ’Hummer’) with a total of 12 team members...
by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Today 8 team members in 4 team vehicles whilst in the team area with the prior knowledge of NWAS (Manchester) control (see the Tricia Dorgan story from today) received a callout from NWAS to the report of a rugby player who had suffered a serious injury on playing...
by admin | Nov 16, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 16:45 hrs today whilst still at our team base following the equipment demonstration at Broughton Fire Station, in the company of two other team members our team leader received a direct mobile phone call out from NWAS (Manchester) PEC (Paramedic Emergency Control)...
by admin | Oct 30, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Following a direct request from NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) to the team, a pager message was sent at 13:29 Hrs asking for appropriately trained team members for help with a peak demand situation arising with the North West Ambulance Service (GMA). 3 Team members...