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Extreme Rescue

Four from the Power Plant Fire Brigade took part in the rescue exercise conducted at abyss Rám (Pilis Hills). Two teams of 20 each were ordered to simulate a life rescue operation in three different situations. The teams, made up of ambulance officers, trained ambulance technicians, professional and full-time plant fire fighters, alpinists and some more representing various charitable organizations, had to save a tourist who had suffered several injuries on the limbs and the skull while falling down the abyss. At the next station, rescuers had to apply first aid to an unconscious person with spinal and limb injuries, then carry him, using a special stretcher also accepted and standard at the Power Plant Fire Brigade, to a safe shelter moving over a hardly passable terrain.

The third station was the most difficult obstacle to surmount, severely trying the rescuers’ knowledge and endurance – two quad riders met with a serious accident in the forest, suffering multiple injuries each alone being potentially dangerous to life. The situation required technical rescue operations to implement, first aid measures to restore life functions of the severely wounded quad riders and then alpine rescue methods to apply. Rescue efforts of Ferenc Bán, Attila Kruller, Zsolt Lesták and Lajos Zelei, all representing the Power Plant Fire Brigade, at the exercise were generally described as a good job.

- tV - Paksi Hírnök, 20th issue, 2006