by admin | Feb 8, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 19.29hrs this evening during a period of snowfall throughout the Greater Manchester area, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) regards going to standby in case the road conditions worsened causing problems for their Ambulances progressing to incidents. In... by admin | Feb 2, 2009 | 2009, Incident
With wintry conditions persisting into the early evening, and with more snow showers forecast for later into the evening, at 18:30 this evening the team placed its 4 Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulances on standby at our Ladybridge Hall base to be available in case of... by admin | Feb 2, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 08:38 this morning we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) to provide standby assistance to the Ambulance Service due to the wintry road conditions prevailing and the forecast of more snow on the way. Balancing a potential requirement to also be available for NWAS... by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 10.25hrs along with our colleagues at Rossendale and Pendle MRT we were requested by NWAS (Lancashire) A&E Control to RVP at Darwen Ambulance Station (in our case) to standby regarding a large number of motorists stuck in snowdrifts on the snowbound road... by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 09.36hrs NWAS (Lancashire) Accident and Emergency Control contacted our Team Leader directly for 4WD assistance, to reach a property and evacuate an elderly and poorly gentleman from a care home in Darwen, which due to icy and snowbound road conditions was...