Incident 22/2012

Incident 22/2012

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...
Incident 22/2012

Incident 21/2012

At 21.37hrs this wet and cold evening, with the majority of the team membership on our routine Wednesday night exercise, deployed throughout the moorland valley of Cadshaw Brook, the team was paged by a GMP Missing Person Search Manager to assist with a developing...
Incident 22/2012

Incident 20/2012

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...
Incident 22/2012

Incident 19/2012

At 15:30 this afternoon, during a period of freezing rain affecting many parts of Greater Manchester, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received a direct call from NWAS (Manchester) who were very busy with a high emergency call volume. The team was requested to attend...
Incident 22/2012

Incident 18/2012

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...
Incident 22/2012

Incident 17/2012

At 12.54hrs with three team vehicles and six members already at Incident 16 (See previous Incident Report) we were called by NWAS (Manchester) to assist an NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Ambulance crew with an injured snow sledger on the shallow valley side of...