by admin | Feb 6, 2013 | 2013, Incident
As described below, with the team on exercise this evening, at circa 21.00hrs, team friend (Who photographs many of our bigger exercises) Carl Silver contacted our Team Leader, requesting the teams help, to extricate his car from an icy stretch of the moorland road of... by admin | May 31, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 19:55 this evening the team was contacted by Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service to assist with an incident near Wilton quarries, Belmont. GMFRS had responded to a call for assistance from NWAS, crashed through the barriers on Scout Road and then travelled... by admin | Feb 9, 2011 | 2011, Incident
On the late evening of Tuesday 8th February, eight men aged from 20 to 32 from the Bolton and Manchester area, decided to drive two four-wheel drive vehicles onto Darwen Moor with the aim being to reach Darwen Tower via the narrow track/bridle way system. In heavy... by admin | Dec 18, 2010 | 2010, Incident
Our team vehicle involved in the previous incident whilst travelling back to our base on the M61 motorway southbound chanced upon a motorway RTC, at which no other emergency services were present at the time. They stopped to assist, with police arriving shortly... by admin | Nov 28, 2010 | 2010, Incident
With a small number of team members still at our base following this morning’s standby rescue cover event at Darwen, we were contacted directly by NWAS (Lancashire) Control at 14:25 to assist with the report of a moorland road traffic accident somewhere in the...