DEMONSTRATES HIGH MOUNTAIN RESCUE STANDBY
rescue of persons in the rescue exercise in the Green Mountain Railway
Sultry, hot summer weather at the beginning, threatening thunderclouds above the hell Mountains and the Traunstein, lightning, thunder and pouring rain at the end - and in between the recovery of 28 in the gondolas of the Green Mountain Railway stubborn people. This scenario offered the 600 attendees at the big show Gmundnerberg rescue exercise in Gmunden, the highlight of the activities surrounding the 90th anniversary of the local authority was.
The Green Mountain Railway, opened in 1957, the Gmundnerberg rescue offered on Saturday for the last time the opportunity for a rescue exercise, because in the autumn of this year, the venerable cable car circulation Always set for their operation and give way to a modern commuter train. The practice adopted was that the train due to technical problems came to a standstill and stuck in seven fully loaded gondolas (operating funds) a total of 28 passengers between heaven and earth. The railway, the blueprint for the rescue exercise can not be set in motion with the emergency drive. So - Mountain Rescue and a cable car staff were asked and asked. What has been in previous years, rehearsed several times at the officially prescribed exercises should review, on the occasion of the anniversary of Germany to the general public will be demonstrated. That have the Gmundnerberg savior and operational control of the Green Mountain Cable Car a practice routine worked out, the show on the one hand the reality of a serious case, on the other hand, the audience in time but should not demand too much. Therefore, the application was limited to the cable car route between the station and the first column.
HELICOPTER RESCUE
The leaders were due to the poor for this day weather forecast continually with various weather services, in contact and also the information of the pilots from the police helicopter from the flight for the Linz Hörsching did not bode well: about 18 clock, the thunder and storm front reached the Traunsee. For this reason, the demonstration of a helicopter rescue of persons omitted from the gondolas and this event with the rescue of two distressed "climbers" from the roof of the Pension Magerl demonstrated. Shortly after 15:30 clock therefore has increased the police helicopter and police air rescue took the two victims, adopted on 20 meters long Bergetau from the rooftop and brought them to the training ground at the valley of the Green Mountain Railway.
RESCUE ACTION ON A MILEAGE LONG DISTANCE
clock on time at 15:40 then the cable car was brought to a halt and sat in the gondola to the mountain and valley section distributed to people sheltering. The rescuers began their own use in the first column. There were two mountains devices suspended in the supporting cable on which two of a savior multi-member ground crew were then secured from gondola to gondola. Arriving at the gondola began the descent of the fixed passengers - about 80 feet at its highest point - in a special seat. Securing the rope to the persons carried in turn by the ground crew. Was an empty gondola "evicted", then went to the rescuer to "drive" to the next. In this rhythm for gondola gondola were emptied out and the people recovered from separate rescue teams from the sometimes steep terrain under the cable car route to the safe trails of the Green Mountain area. Understandably, such a mountain of action is not completed in a few minutes, but that it be expected even with a time of one to two hours must - even in an emergency.
HIGH AUSBILDUNSSTAND certified
viewers and special guests, including Mayor Heinz Koeppl and city councils Wolfgang Sage and Catherine Mizelli and representatives of the fire, Red Cross and others Upper Austria Germany local authorities attested to the 38 Gmundnerberg rescuers a high education level, the so repeatedly for serious and difficult rescues at Traunstein to prove is. But - working in an emergency happens usually unnoticed far from the public on the mountain. In this review exercise, the expert comments and interviews with the rescuers in action took the floor, were the men of the mountain rescue and police activities demonstrate their skills and show a wide audience flock to the onset of a strong thunderstorm rain. Then an end to the demonstrations and in the pouring rain had occurred the visitors on the way home, while the bottom teams relegated soaked along with the "saved" to the skin from the sometimes steep terrain of the cable car route had.
support the "rescuers in an emergency certainly of the rescue helicopters stationed in Upper Austria and the helicopters of the police and army. Therefore, on the way back and flew from a tragic event in Bad Ischl Radu also the rescue helicopter Airmed II from Scharnstein Gmundnerberg to rescue exercise, but this was due to attend the advanced training course and the onset of rain is no longer active in it.
way: from the two cabins of the forthcoming Green Mountain aerial tramway to the rescue method from the one that was shown during the exercise, is difficult to distinguish it from the operational control of the Green Mountain Railway. Only a difference will be it: The rescuers do not have to work ahead of cable, but with their rescue equipment to only one on the mountain and "drive" to a cabin located on the valley section. These booths will be occupied not with four but probably up to a maximum of 60 persons be. The rappelling and rescue operation will last as long as similar as now at the 24 pods of the "old" Green Mountain Railway.
