by admin | Oct 14, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Whilst the Bolton MRT were hosting their annual Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue weekend (see separate story) and large elements of the team were deployed around a series of mini exercise locations in the Lower House area of Rivington, the team was paged by... by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | 2007, Incident
A rather unusual and early time for NWAS ( Greater Manchester Area ) Belle Vue Emergency Control to be paging the team, but at 07.45hrs this morning our pagers ’rung’ (Webmaster, should that be ’toned’) into action requesting we contact NWAS (GMA) Control. Answered... by admin | Jul 14, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Historically over the years a regular incident site for us, we were called this afternoon to the Tigers Clough area, on the outskirts of Horwich at its boundary with Rivington. Tigers Clough, (its local name) more correctly known as the River Douglas Valley, is a very... by admin | May 12, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Five team members this weekend were staying at the Ogwen Valley base of the Ogwen Valley MRT., for a weekend of rock climbing in the Idwal and Tryfan areas, when at the end of the day for four of the five team members, now back at Oggi base, and following a previous... by admin | Apr 29, 2007 | 2007, Incident
With the knowledge that the team already had a small number of team members in team vehicles already around the Rivington and Belmont areas (we always notify our two NWAS Ambulance Controls whenever we are out and about), we were contacted by NWAS (Lancashire) at...