The Fire Brigade of the Provincial Command of Catania intervened at midday today to rescue a 16-year-old boy who, for reasons to be ascertained, fell from the cliff in via Acicastello, from a height of approximately 5 metres, ending up on the rocks below .
On site the Fire Brigade team from the Headquarters, the personnel specialized in SAF (Alpine Fluvial Speleum) techniques, the Service Technician, the Nautical Department and the Flight Department with the Divers of the Catania Unit on board the helicopter.
The boy was reached, rescued by the firefighters who intervened and transported by sea on the dinghy of the Nautical Department of the Fire Brigade and was then entrusted to the care of the health workers of the 118 Service.
State Police officers were also on site and participated in the rescue activities. Coast Guard personnel also intervened.
The rescue in Catania
The firefighters of the Provincial Command of Catania intervened in Corso Martiri della Libertà, near the Bank of Italy, to rescue a person who had fallen into an excavation from a height of approximately 10 metres. On site a team from the Provincial Command Headquarters and a team of firefighters specialized in SAF (Alpine Fluvial Speleum) techniques, a ladder truck and the service officer. The firefighters reached the person, a 27-year-old man, used first aid techniques and after stabilizing him with a stick of bandages and immobilizing him on a special stretcher (Toboggan), they climbed him back onto the road to hand him over for treatment. of health workers. Health personnel from the 118 Service and Carabinieri soldiers were on site.
Elderly man saved in the Messina area
Fear for an elderly man saved in an area of Messina, but the location given by the rescuers has sparked some controversy. In fact, initially it was announced that the rescue had been carried out in the Alcantara gorges, but the park clarified that this was not exactly the case and that the location has little to do with the gorges’ territory. The firefighters, in a press release, wrote that at 9.30 am, at the operations centre, a request had been received from the Nue (single emergency unit) to rescue a person in an inaccessible area in the Gravà area, in the jurisdiction of Municipality of Francavilla di Sicilia in the Alcantara river. A fire brigade team from the Letojanni detachment was sent immediately and as a precaution also a fire brigade helicopter, “Drago 148” with air rescue personnel from the helicopter unit of Fontanarossa Catania.
