A Basque police helicopter carried out a spectacular rescue of a tourist, according to the local press an Italian, who was trapped between the Flysch rocks in Zumaia after the tide rose. According to a statement from the Basque government’s Security Department, the woman was walking along a path on the cliff when she became isolated by the ocean waters.
The rescue
The video released on social media shows a paramedic lowering himself from the aircraft with a rope and, despite the strong wind, managing to recover the woman who was lying on the steep rocks, now just a few centimeters from the waves that would soon have overwhelmed her. According to the local press, a passerby alerted the emergency services.
The Basque government’s Directorate for Rescue at Sea therefore mobilized several units, including the Red Cross of the Sea, the firefighters and local police patrols. In the end it was decided that the only way to save her was to have a helicopter intervene with elements of the Mountain Section of the Surveillance and Rescue Unit on board. Once rescued, the woman was transferred and treated by local health services and, shortly afterwards, she went to San Sebastian hospital
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