by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | 2008, Incident
With a very heavy snowfall forecasted for the Greater Manchester and Lancashire areas during the early hours of this morning, the North West Ambulance Service had requested MRTs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester to go to standby status overnight in case of need, to... by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Just after returning to the Bolton Fire Station base from the previous moorland incident (119/2008), Bolton Mobile 2 was requested by NWAS (Manchester area) to attend a female who had fallen on an icy drive in Lostock. With 2 members immediately available for this... by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 13.46hrs NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre paged the team for assistance with an incident initially reported in the Walker Fold Farm area of the moors north of Bolton. At 13.58hrs a full team call out message was paged for team members to respond to the... by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | 2008, Incident
In the early hours of this morning heavy snowfalls started in the Greater Manchester and Lancashire areas, steadily worsening as the early morning commuter traffic started. Traffic soon ground to a halt in the snow and icy road conditions, with gridlock or at the... by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Incident
At 15:51 hours we were contacted by NWAS (Manchester) to respond to the report of a football player at Goshen Lane Sports Club, Redvales, Bury, who had suffered a serious leg fracture. Our 4 Landrover ambulances plus BM5 (the ’Hummer’) with a total of 12 team members... by admin | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Incident
Today 8 team members in 4 team vehicles whilst in the team area with the prior knowledge of NWAS (Manchester) control (see the Tricia Dorgan story from today) received a callout from NWAS to the report of a rugby player who had suffered a serious injury on playing...