Tuesday around 7 p.m. the alarm went off: A person should be floating in the Drava. The emergency services immediately moved out in order to be able to rescue this person as quickly as possible in perfect cooperation.
Firefighters and police officers searched the Drau in the Weißenstein area on the bank and from the boat. Three divers from the Klagenfurt professional fire brigade were brought to the scene by the police helicopter, and the helicopter team tried to locate the missing person from the air. The search lasted for hours. “There is no dependency report. We don’t know who we’re looking for, whether it’s a woman or a man, but we’re still looking, ”said one policeman.