by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Early this morning three very experienced mountain bikers set off for a ride taking in the Tockholes area. At just before 09:00, one of the experienced riders, a 61 year old male from Bolton, took a fall resulting in suspected multiple injuries. His two colleagues...
by admin | Jul 26, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 12.06hrs this very warm (28c) and sunny day, we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway, regards a mountain biking accident in the vicinity of Rivington Pike. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, with a fully detailed pager call out being...
by admin | Jun 6, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 17.35hrs this very warm and sunny, fine early evening we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC for our assistance. The call was immediately answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, whilst our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh and two other team members (Steve...
by admin | May 5, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 13.55hrs this warm and sunny May Day Holiday we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) EOC regards an incident at Philips Park, Prestwich. The call was answered by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, who liaised with NWAS EOC to obtain further details before paging a full...
by admin | Apr 19, 2014 | 2014, Incident
With eighteen team members responding to set up to provide standby rescue cover for the Annual Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Fell Race (See above ‘News’ report) NWAS (Manchester) EOC Parkway directly contacted our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE (Who minutes earlier had...