Construction sites in Westenhofen and Hausham hamper the rescue service

The construction sites in Hausham and Westenhofen are obstructing BRK and mountain rescue services.

Many journeys take longer, especially when mountain rescue workers from Miesbach and Hausham move out to Schliersee in private vehicles.

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- The past week would have been difficult enough for the Schliersee mountain rescue service even without the construction sites in Hausham and Westenhofen.

The rescuers went out eight times in seven days, helped the seriously injured twelve-year-old after her mountain cart accident on the Stümpfling (we reported) and recovered a young woman who had suffered severe head injuries in a riding accident on the way to Aurach.

“It's always the same people who leave during the week,” says Lorenz Haberle from the mountain rescue service.

Due to the many vacationers, the burden is high for them.

What makes life even more difficult for these emergency services: Because of the construction site, they currently need a good half an hour longer to get to the site, estimates Haberle.

That puts a strain on rescuers and endangers those to be rescued.

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It shouldn't have happened that way, says Haberle.

“We were forgotten when planning the construction sites.” If the oncoming traffic is green, even blue-light vehicles would have a hard time getting through the bottleneck quickly.

Helpers without a blue light on the way to action have no chance.

Because many members of the mountain rescue team from Hausham or Miesbach are approaching, this is a serious problem.

“We need clearly defined escape routes.

You have to plan a construction site in such a way that the rescue service can drive into oncoming traffic without causing chaos. "

The mountain rescue service is not alone with its problem: the vehicles of the BRK also have to go through the bottleneck.

"The traffic jam hampers us tremendously," says BRK district manager Robert Kießling.

His cars should use side streets reserved for residents for blue light drives and the transport of handicapped children and dialysis patients.

That also takes longer.

The BRK has to wait at the traffic lights for food deliveries and patient transports.

The construction sites, says Kießling, eat up a lot of time.

However, Kießling hardly believes that the delay could have been avoided: "If there had been a better solution, the planning would probably have been done differently."

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Sophie Stadler, press spokeswoman for the district office, assesses the situation in a similar way. The local road traffic authority issued the building law order for the measure and, according to Stadler, “coordinated it with all parties involved” - also with the municipalities, disaster control and the police. You speak for all blue light organizations. Involving everyone, including the mountain rescue service, in each arrangement is neither manageable nor sensible. "Unfortunately, a construction project of this magnitude will never be possible without restrictions." But, emphasizes Stadler: There have always been disabilities in these areas. The work should reduce them. You have to consider that.

Michaela Götschl, head of the rescue service at the BRK district association, says she would like a world without construction sites.

But sometimes there has to be work.

Then all that remains is to make the best of the situation.

That's why she hopes that drivers will understand.

If every second counts in an emergency, the ambulance service would also drive to the construction site if there was oncoming traffic.

"Then we have to rely on the support of the motorists."

This should also become important from August 30th.

Then the B 307 in Westenhofen will be completely closed for almost two weeks.

The ambulance service will be able to use local roads to bypass, Stadler confirms.

But it could also get tight there.

“I appeal to drivers,” says Götschl.

"If you see a blue light or hear the siren, please make room."