| | Emergency services have rescued and taken to the hospital a 65-year-old man who was injured when he fell from a height of about 30 meters when he was climbing a wall in the so-called Peñ n de Ricote. On 1-1-2 he received a call from a colleague of the injured person at 3:00 p.m.
The caller provided the position (a mountain very close to the town's urban center) and indicated the severity of the precipitate's injuries.
Firefighters from the Murcia Region Fire Extinction and Rescue Consortium (CEIS), a helicopter from the General Directorate of Citizen Safety and Emergencies with the CEIS air rescue group, mobilized to the site , an environmental agent in the area, a Civil Guard patrol, members of the Ricote Valley Civil Protection and a Mobile Emergency Unit (UME) with health personnel from the Urgency and Health Emergencies Management 061. Given the strong prevailing wind in the area, it was impossible for the helicopter to approach the accident site, so the rescue had to be done on foot.
Stabilized by the health workers, he was transferred by the UME to the place where the helicopter could land and evacuated by air to the "Virgen de la Arrixaca" hospital in Murcia with very serious injuries. function { ;(, , {});}
Source: 112RM