by admin | Jan 6, 2016 | 2016, Incident
Our first full team callout of 2016 was initiated today as a result of a request from NWAS Emergency Operations Centre, Broughton. The team was contacted via SARCALL at 12:50 this afternoon with the report of a male lying injured on moorland near to Piccadilly Farm,...
by admin | Oct 23, 2015 | 2015, Incident
At 17.23hrs this evening, the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) EOC Parkway, to respond to the report of a collapsed male, unaware of his location, within the extensive Haigh Hall Plantations of Wigan. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE replied to the...
by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | 2015, Incident
This evening at 17.45hrs as dusk was setting in, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary to respond to a 999 call they had received regarding a 19 year old young woman who had fallen down the very steep northern escarpment of Winter Hill, which overlooks the...
by admin | Jun 20, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Whilst present at GMFRS Horwich Community Fire Station Open Day this afternoon, four team members attending; Equipment Officer – Medical Mark Scott, Training Officer Alistair Greenough, Mike Marsh and Trainee team member Heath Doran, were mobilised by our Team Leader...
by admin | May 4, 2015 | 2015, Incident
At 13.44hrs this sunny afternoon, the team was contacted via SARCALL by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC AirDesk, requesting the teams assistance with the report of a collapsed hill walker near to Jubilee (Darwen) Tower, on Darwen Moor. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE...