Incident 16/2014

Incident 16/2014

At 12.35hrs early this afternoon the team was paged by NWAS (Lancashire) Broughton EOC, Airdesk Despatcher, to respond to an incident at the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir. Our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon answered the call, and at 12.39hrs a full team pager Call...
Incident 16/2014

Incident 15/2014

This morning, Four Team Support Group members and many Call Out list members met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ to take down our many Christmas Decorations, and carry out a multitude of minor tasks to get the team in the best shape to enter 2014 – bearing in...
Incident 16/2014

Incident 14/2014

Our first search operation Call Out of 2014 came in to the team today, when at 15.34hrs we were contacted via SARCALL to assist GMP with a search operation for a missing 50 years old man in the Northenden / Wythenshawe area of South Manchester. The man was missing in...
Incident 16/2014

Incident 13/2014

Today our Team Equipment Officer (Water) whilst in the company of a member of NEWSAR Team received a request to join and assist the NEWSAR Team in their response to the possibility of flooding events occurring in North Wales. The following is an account of what...
Incident 16/2014

Incident 12/2014

At 14.15hrs this fine but cold afternoon, we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) to assist at an incident at Rivington, to which NWAA Helimed 75 was already mobilising to, and which from initial reports indicated that the male casualty involved was unconscious. Our Team...
Incident 16/2014

Incidents 1 to 11/2014

This morning as with all previous New Year mornings following on from New Years Eve’s (For sixteen years now, commencing on 31st December 1998) the team had all four of it’s Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances and its Minibus Ambulance available, at the disposal of...