Operation conducted in synergy between the Sicilian Alpine and Speleological Rescue Service and the 82nd SAR Centre of the 15th Wing of the Italian Air Force
The joint operation concluded this late afternoon Italian Air Force e Sicilian Alpine and Speleological Rescue to rescue a female tourist from Friuli who was injured in the’Marettimo island.
The incident happened in the Punta Troia area when the 69-year-old woman, on holiday on the Egadi Islands with a group of friends, while walking along a particularly challenging stretch of path, she slipped and sustained
Suspected fracture of the tibia and fibula. As he was no longer able to continue, his friends with whom he was called the Single Emergency Number 112. The 118 control centre requested the intervention of the Alpine Rescue service which, in order to
to ensure the speed of the recovery in a rugged area, subsequently requested the intervention of a military helicopter to Rescue Coordination Centre del Aerospace Operations Command in Poggio Renatico (FE).
The RCC of the COA has therefore immediately activated the military crew on standby from the alarm of the’82° SAR Centre of the 15th Wing of the Italian Air Force stationed at Trapani airport. A helicopter then took off from the Sicilian base. HH-139A and embarked two SASS air ambulance technicians to transport them a few minutes later to the accident site. A Mountain Rescue Technician and an Air Rescue Swimmer from the Air Force reached the woman, Her leg was immobilised and she was winched aboard the helicopter, before being immediately disembarked in the landing area of the Sant'Antonio Abate hospital in Trapani for the necessary medical treatment.
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