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 | Oct 6, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Late this afternoon our Team Leader was contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester Area) who requested the team’s assistance as part of their step-up resource plan given a high incident loading on their immediate resources available. Two Bolton MRT Landrover ambulances... by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | 2007, Incident
In the knowledge that we’d already had two calls in the day, both of which had resulted in us being ’stood down responding’ and that things always come in threes, it was perhaps no surprise to our more experienced members that in the evening another request was made... by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 15:12 this afternoon our team leader received a mobile phone call from NWAS (Lancashire Area) control room requesting the attendance of team vehicles already known to be in the area at what was reported to NWAS as a serious RTC involving two motorcycles and their... by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At 11:35 this morning the team was contacted by Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue service regarding assistance with an incident involving a person on the roof of a building in the Salford City Centre area. A large number of people were already present at the time...