by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | 2007, Incident
This was the evening of the Grayrigg rail incident on the outskirts of Kendal, in South Cumbria, which prompted a major incident response by all the relevant emergency services in Cumbria. As part of the overall response to thia major incident, NWAS (Lancashire Area)... by admin | Feb 17, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Early this evening our Team Leader was contacted by NWAS (GMA) Paramedic Emergency Control for any assistance the team could offer as a huge number of calls yet again was causing a peak demand situation on the available resources of the whole ambulance service, with... by admin | Feb 16, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Early evening the team was contacted during a period of very high activity on NWAS (GMA) resulting in a peak demand situation. The team was able to place 1 crewed vehicle with a base controller at the disposal of NWAS. Thankfully the peak demand situation began to... by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Whilst in the Rivington area providing standby rescue cover for the Winter Hill Fell Race, the team was contacted direct by NWAS (Lancashire area) A&E Control to respond, due to our being in the close vicinity, to the report of an elderly man who had collapsed... by admin | Feb 10, 2007 | 2007, Incident
By 01:00 this morning all four Landrovers had returned to our LBH base with road conditions in the Bolton area still icy at all levels but with thawing conditions setting in (it was still artic on the local moorlands!). As we were locking up the base at 01:08, NWAS...