The intervention of a HH-139A helicopter from the 85th Combat Search & Rescue Center of the 15th Stormo in collaboration with the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps of Umbria
An helicopter HH-139A of the’85° Centre Combat Search and Rescue del 15th Wing The Air Force intervened last night, Wednesday 19 January, to rescue a woodcutter who had been injured in a very inaccessible wooded area in the Casemasce locality, in the municipality of Todi.
The military helicopter, one of the assets of the Armed Forces that is always ready to take off on the national territory for this type of intervention, immediately took off from the’military airport of Pratica di Mare (RM), where the headquarters of the’85th Combat SAR Center (Search and Rescue) of the 15th Wing of the Italian Air Force.
Once in the area of intervention, the crew recovered through the use of a winch The injured man who had been stabilized on the ground by the technicians and the operators of the ambulance National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps of Umbria on a special stretcher. Thanks to the use of night vision goggles NVG (Night Vision Goggles), which allow for operation in low-light conditions or at night, the recovery of the logger took place in complete safety and once the helicopter was finished, it headed towards the hospital. Santa Maria della Misericordia in Perugia.
The 85th C/SAR Center’s alert crew had been activated in the late afternoon by Rescue Coordination Centre del Aerospace Operations Command in Poggio Renatico (Ferrara), the Command and Control Centre of the Italian Air Force from which all operational activities of this kind are managed.
The 85th C.S.A.R. Center is one of the Departments of the 15th Wing of the Air Force, which guarantees, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, without interruption, the search and rescue of flight crews in difficulty, also contributing to public utility activities such as the search for missing persons at sea or in the mountains, the emergency medical transport of patients in life-threatening danger, and the rescue of seriously injured traumatized individuals, operating also at night and in marginal weather conditions.
