GMCFS paged the Team at 15:25 Hrs, our Call Out contacts made contact with the Fire service control room and paged a full team call out at 15:31 Hrs, for a elderly gentleman who was down an embankment in Unsworth, Bury. By this time the pagers were already indicating members on route to man the vehicles at their garage locations. Within 60 seconds of the call out message being sent, a Stop message had been sent (a Stop mesage is the Fire service equivalent of Stand Down), so this was the shortest call out of the year to date.
Incident 26-2018 – body recovery from Horrocks Moor
At 15:46 on Sunday 13th May we were contacted by North West Ambulance Service with the request to assist in the...