Incident 56/2013

Incident 56/2013

Shortly after noon today, a woman out dog walking with others on the hillside ‘Old Kates Dingle’ track above the Lower House Car Park at Rivington, aggravated a previous injury resulting in a very painful knee dislocation. The responding NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency...
Incident 56/2013

Incident 55/2013

At 16.42hrs this afternoon, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway to assist with a reported incident to a horse rider at Elton Reservoir, Bury. Once our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE had liaised with NWAS (Manchester) EOC and gathered further information and...
Incident 56/2013

Incident 54/2013

During our provision of Standby Rescue Cover for the large scale Pike View Hike (See previous report entry) the event control was made aware at circa 17.39hrs of a small wildfire on the prominent feature of Healey Nab, possibly on the closing route stage of the ‘Hike’...
Incident 56/2013

Incident 53/2013

At circa 13.35hrs this afternoon, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson, was contacted for his specialist assistance, to join with NEWSAR Team in a search operation in the Wrexham area for a missing male, being co-ordinated by North Wales...
Incident 56/2013

Incident 52/2013

At 17.28hrs early this evening we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway for our assistance at an off road motorcycling accident in the Leigh area. NWAS (Manchester) EOC had also mobilised the NWAS HART Team from Trafford Park to this same incident, and an NWAS...
Incident 56/2013

Incident 51/2013

At 03.09hrs in the early hours of this Easter Monday morning we were paged by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service to jointly attend with them an incident possibly requiring line rescue access, as part of the PDA (Pre Determined Attendance) agreement GMFRS have...