by admin | Feb 22, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 12:55 early this rainy afternoon the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Control Centre regarding a female hillwalker in an organised group, who had slipped fracturing her leg. The accident had happened slightly earlier, resulting in an immediate...
by admin | Feb 9, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At circa 17:36 one of our crews at Royal Bolton Hospital (at the conclusion of incident 19/2012) were informed by a GMP Police Officer of a report of an incident which would likely require the team, as it involved an injured hill walker upon the local moors, and to...
by admin | Feb 5, 2012 | 2012, Incident
Two local male youths from the Horwich area, became lost this afternoon on the misty still partially snow covered moorland of Rivington Moor, prompting a large scale Police and Mountain Rescue response today. The two fourteen year olds, on a moorland walk between...
by admin | Jan 19, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 15:54 this afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) to an incident in the woodlands at Roddlesworth, Tockholes, with the report of a female casualty with a head injury sustained after falling into the River Roddlesworth whilst out dog walking on the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2012 | 2012, Incident
With four team members co-incidentally at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ carrying out various maintenance and administrative tasks, we were contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre at 15.36hrs via radio link regards the report of an injured...