Double intervention for the Air Force structures

(To air Force)
25/01/20

A Saturday of ordinary operations that which distinguished the assets and crews of the Air Force today.

In the early afternoon of today a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Storm of Ciampino took off at a time of Alghero airport to pick up a 3 year old boy in imminent danger of life.

The young patient, together with his mother and a medical team from the Santissima Annunziata hospital in Sassari, was transferred to the Gaslini hospital in Genoa to receive the necessary specialist care.

In the late afternoon, at the request of the prefecture of Trapani, in coordination with the Civil Protection, the intervention of an HH-139 structure of the 82 ° CSAR Center of Trapani was requested to fight a fire that broke out on Mount Erice right in the Trapani area .

The crew, after about an hour on a mission and about five tons of water dropped, managed to tame the fire, ending the sortie within the ephemeris.