by admin | Feb 28, 2015 | Training
Our regular readers will now be aware that this year, April 1st to be precise, sees the start of the disbandment and wind down of the RAF, Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm / HMCG existing UK Helicopter Search and Rescue provision, and its total civilianisation under a new... by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Training
This damp and initially drizzly evening, saw our routine Wednesday evening exercise take place at Giants Seat Scout and Community Campsite, Outwood, Radcliffe. Consisting of some 50 acres of mature woodland, steep slopes and open pasture, this location gave us some... by admin | Feb 24, 2015 | Training
Our readers may be aware that this year, April 1st to be precise, sees the start of the disbandment and wind down of the RAF, Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm / HMCG existing UK Helicopter Search and Rescue provision, and its total civilianisation under a new long lasting... by admin | Feb 23, 2015 | Training
Today a small group of team members undertook some rope work training in Cadshaw Small Quarry, some 400 metres along the track to Cadshaw / Yarnsdale Delf from the A666, high up on the moorlands and plantations between Egerton and Darwen. Topics covered included... by admin | Feb 19, 2015 | Training
On Monday 19th March 2012, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and our Training Officer at the time Elaine Gilliland, took a full part in ‘Exercise CURA,’ a regional multi agency exercise, hosted by Lancashire Constabulary and presented by the Highways Agency, which took... by admin | Feb 18, 2015 | Training
Journeying to the far north east of our team primary operational area this evening, team members assembled for an exercise on the moorland area of Hoddlesden Moss and Orrell Moss. Based upon the scenario of an injured hill walker – with thanks to Amy Lowe, aged 19 for...