by admin | Aug 13, 2015 | Donations
On Wednesday evening 8th July 2015, the team provided standby rescue cover for the MTB Madness Mountain Bike event in Leverhulme Park, Bolton – please see website ‘News’ report dated the same. We are now pleased to announce a £100.00 donation to the team arising from... by admin | Aug 13, 2015 | 2015, Incident
During the evening of Wednesday 12th August, a 48 year old woman went missing from her home address in the Martland Hill area of Wigan, in circumstances giving Police concern for her welfare. As the evening progressed, GMP instigated a search of the immediate area,... by admin | Aug 12, 2015 | Training
This evening at 20.00hrs, fifteen team operational members met up initially at Crookfield Road car park, Roddlesworth, for an area familiarity exercise within the Roddlesworth Plantations at Roddlesworth / Tockholes. A group of seven set out from Crookfield Road car... by admin | Aug 12, 2015 | General news
This afternoon, the team was paged by NWAS Broughton EOC Lancashire, to attend an incident at Heaton Park, Manchester, concerning a fallen female who required a stretcher evacuation to the attending NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Ambulance. Heaton Park falls within the... by admin | Aug 11, 2015 | General news
On Sunday 17th May 2015 we reported within the ‘News’ section of our website, that on Saturday 16th May 2015, young Chloe Southworth and her mum Karen Southworth called briefly at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, meeting team member and former Team Chairman Ken Oakes,... by admin | Aug 11, 2015 | General news
This afternoon, our Secretary received a kind email from the 45 years old male mountain biker casualty, involved in Incident 60 of Saturday 18th July 2015, within Phillips Park, Prestwich, Manchester. This same evening, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE spoke to the... by admin | Aug 10, 2015 | Donations
We are very pleased to announce our July 2015 month end collection box figures, with £294.40 collected, against £340.78 for July 2014. The total so far for 2015 is £1,833.20 compared with £1,722.90 for the same period in 2014. We currently have 114x collection boxes... by admin | Aug 9, 2015 | General news
Today a group of ten team operational members met at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at 11.00hrs initially to carry out some administration tasks – updated membership listings, revised call out contact listings and incident paperwork in to our vehicles, and medical kit... by admin | Aug 6, 2015 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Now larger than ever, this years fifth Greater Manchester Emergency Services Open Day took place today at its usual venue of the intu Trafford Centre, Manchester. Completely free, with displays featuring a huge range of vehicles, shows and demonstrations from GMFRS,... by admin | Aug 5, 2015 | Training
This evening saw the culmination of four sessions over the last few weeks devoted to rope work training and water operations. Tonight twelve team members were present at GMFRS Bolton North Community Fire Station for more work and familiarity with rope descending,...