by admin | Apr 18, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Good Friday April 18th LAS telephoned the Team for assistance with an injured Female rambler at Wayoh reservoir, Turton. Already at the Rivington Pike Good Friday celebrations, so it saw a quick deployment of Team vehicles to Turton. But we were hampered by the... by admin | Apr 16, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Wednesday 16th April saw our usual Team Training night, replaced with our first Call from GMCFS. During the day GMCFS had been dealing with many moorland fires, at one time up to 20 appliances had been deployed. As the evening started to draw in we were asked to... by admin | Apr 13, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Barely 1 hour after leaving our Base and heading for home, we were called again by Lancashire Police for a search for a missing 8 year old male in the area of Roddlesworth. The young lad had gone for a walk with his family and had got separate in the woodland. Just as... by admin | Apr 13, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Sunday 13th April saw GMP contact the Team for a missing 82 year old male, last seen in the Westhoughton area the previous night. A full Team Call Out was instigated and both Team Members & our Search Dog Teams were deployed into the field, together with the... by admin | Apr 12, 2003 | 2003, Incident
Saturday 12th April saw Search Dog Chi & handler Dave Marsh, together with Navigator Chris Moody, called to assist Oldham MRT with reports of Red Flares on the Pennine Way. 2 dog teams were to search a 4Km stretch of the Pennine Way, starting at each end and... by admin | Mar 30, 2003 | 2003, Incident
On the early evening of Sunday, 30th March, the team was called out to assist GMP, in a search for a missing 5 year old boy, on the outskirts of Bolton (at Chorley Old Road, the area opposite Morrisons store). Initial police enquiries were followed by a rapid...