Search and Rescue: helicopter of the 82nd CSAR Center rescues a woman taken ill

(To air Force)
06/08/20

At 15:40 pm yesterday, Wednesday 5 August, a crew of the 82nd CSAR (Combat Search And Rescue) Center of the Air Force of Trapani took off for a rescue mission with a HH139A helicopter to recover a woman who had been taken ill at the Zingaro Nature Reserve (TP).

The crew first went to the sports field of Castellammare del Golfo (TP) to embark an operational team of 2 units of the CNSAS (National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps) and transport it to the Cala della Disa area, inside the Natural Reserve.

Arrived in the intervention area at 16:00, the crew immediately lowered the aircraft rescuer and the CNSAS team to the ground with the winch, who quickly headed to the recovery point, inaccessible by ambulances or other rescue vehicles. . The staff secured the lady, unable to move, in the stretcher, preparing her for recovery. The HH139A crew then carried out the extraction of the patient by winch and, subsequently, of the whole team on the ground, leaving the area of ​​operations at 16:30.

Ten minutes later, the helicopter landed in the soccer field of Castellammare del Golfo, where the CNSAS team was disembarked together with the rescued woman, who was entrusted to the medical care of the local hospital authorities of 118.

The helicopter subsequently returned to the military base of Trapani Birgi, where it landed at 17:00. The carrier and crew have resumed normal national SAR readiness service pending a potential subsequent mission order.

The intervention was initiated at the request of the CNSAS and coordinated by the operations room of Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) of the Air Operations Command of Poggio Renatico (FE), which activated the crew of the 24 ° CSAR Center in H82 alertness