In order to maintain emergency medical care in the disaster areas in the Villach and Villach-Land districts, which are currently not accessible by road, during the coming night, the RK-1 emergency doctor helicopter will remain – for the first time in its 20-year history ARA air rescue continuously operational. Due to the increased air traffic, private drone flights are prohibited in the disaster areas.
Carinthia’s civil protection officer, Daniel Fellner, asked the ARA flight rescuers for support on Wednesday, so that emergency medical care in the disaster areas is also ensured overnight. And this support was also assured immediately! Help is on site within a few minutes “If an emergency actually occurs in the areas cut off from the outside world during the night hours, we can offer emergency medical help from the air within a few minutes. I think this certainty alone that medical care will be fully guaranteed even in such exceptional situations represents important support for the affected population,” says ARA Managing Director Thomas Jank Several police and army helicopters and other emergency organizations are deployed in the disaster area and are sometimes flying at low altitudes, private drone flights there must be avoided at all costs,” appealed the Carinthian State Police Directorate. Drones can become an enormous security risk for helicopter crews! Two families flown out by the police Two families (nine people) were flown out of the Klagenfurt flight operations center on Wednesday morning. “As a result, another Interior Ministry helicopter was sent to the disaster area. Several supply and transport flights were carried out for the emergency organizations, so that three helicopter crews with two helicopters were in action for a total of 18 flight hours,” reports the Klagenfurt flight operations center.
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