by admin | Aug 11, 2012 | 2012, Incident
Today, whilst in North Wales on a SARDA (Wales) training course weekend, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler, Steve Nelson, was contacted at circa 11:30 by Oldham MRT regarding his specialist assistance with a search operation in the South East part of... by admin | Aug 10, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 21.49hrs late this evening, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by a GMP Divisional Police Sergeant, requesting the team’s specialist services for a body recovery operation at Cox Green Quarry, Egerton, Bolton. Earlier the body of a male had... by admin | Aug 1, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 14.35hrs this overcast afternoon, we were paged by NWAS (Lancashire) ECC – Airdesk, to assist the North West Air Ambulance with an incident in the hillside ‘Terraced Gardens’ at Rivington, below the moorland landmark of Rivington Pike. The NWAA Helimed 72 had... by admin | Jul 30, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 11.41hrs this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by a Lancashire Constabulary Missing Person Search Manager, regarding the teams assistance in a search operation to locate Edward Sutton, aged 53, of Darwen, Lancashire. Mr Sutton had not... by admin | Jul 26, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 15.54hrs this warm and humid afternoon, with good visibility at all levels, GMP attempted to contact our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, (Leaving a return contact message) very shortly afterwards contacting our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon. GMP required the teams... by admin | Jul 25, 2012 | 2012, Incident
At 17:05 this very warm evening, the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre who were requesting our assistance at an incident on the disused Bolton & Bury section of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury canal at Little Lever. Our Team Leader Garry...