by admin | May 5, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At 05:00 this morning, the team continued with its joint incident response with Bowland Pennine MRT assisting Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service regarding the large scale moorland fire in the North-Western part of the West Pennine Moors, largely comprising... by admin | May 4, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At 03:28 this morning, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary on behalf of Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service regarding assistance at the continuing large scale moorland fire in the North-Western part of the West Pennine Moors, largely comprising Anglezarke... by admin | Apr 30, 2011 | 2011, Incident
On Friday 29th April 2011, a major moorland fire rapidly developed on the moorlands alongside the A675 Belmont to Abbey Village, resulting in a major response by both Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service. Such was the... by admin | May 23, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Today whilst in the team’s area already covering the latter part of the Darwen Rotary Club Darwen Tower Trudge Sponsored Walk, we became aware of a major moorland fire developing on Rivington Moor. (Maybe it was the huge pall of smoke that gave it away!) NWAS... by admin | Apr 17, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Early this evening, our Team Leader was in contact with GMFRS Control regarding a developing major moorland fire, in the Turton Moor, Belmont area. Our Team Leader was requested to liaise with the on-scene incident command fire officers resulting at 17:30 with a full...