It was a long time for the Buried in the "Casino" hotel before the I.S.A.R. Germany rescue team had worked their way to him with heavy equipment and were able to rescue him from the ten-metre-high hotel using a drag basket stretcher on a rope hoist. For deputy team leader Michael Lesmeister and his team, who had already started the rescue on Monday evening.
"We had to work our way through a thick concrete roof and break through a partition wall in the building," said Lesmeister, who was in charge of the first I.S.A.R. recovery train at the UN certification Achilles 2017 in the training village of Epeisses in southern Switzerland. According to the script, the young man, who is actually a soldier in the Swiss army and plays a villager during the exercise, had injuries to his spine. "We have to proceed very carefully with such injury patterns," reported Michael Lesmeister, explaining the special rescue route for the patient using a specially built cable car. Paramedics had already reached him at the hotel and given him initial treatment.
However, it was only after the rescue that the soldier was able to receive intensive care from the medical team and receive further treatment in a Swiss Army field hospital. After the rescue, the I.S.A.R. team set out to rescue a trapped person from the next building, a destroyed hospital. They set to work there with a rescue crane, hydraulic lifting bags and a rescue spreader.
Photos: Paul-Philipp Braun
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An injured man was rescued from the rubble of the "Casino" hotel using a cable car.
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An injured man was rescued from the rubble of the "Casino" hotel using a cable car.
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The I.S.A.R. helpers had to mobilise heavy equipment in the area of the destroyed clinic in the training village of Epeisses. A crane was also used.
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In the I.S..A.R. Medicals pavilion, the patients received first aid after their rescue.
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The I.S.A.R. helpers had to mobilise heavy equipment in the area of the destroyed clinic in the training village of Epeisses. A crane was also used.
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The I.S.A.R. helpers had to mobilise heavy equipment in the area of the destroyed clinic in the training village of Epeisses. A crane was also used.
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An injured man was rescued from the rubble of the "Casino" hotel using a cable car.
