Lenggries: 27 missions for the mountain rescue service in two days
Created: 02/15/2022, 06:30
By: Veronika Ahn-Tauchnitz
A Skidoo is also one of the mountain rescue service vehicles.
© Bergwacht
Fantastic weather, good slope conditions: There was a lot going on at Brauneck over the weekend.
That also meant a lot of work for the mountain rescue service.
27 missions had to be managed - including the crash of a paraglider.
Lenggries -
Another weekend with a lot of work lies behind the mountain rescue service.
The volunteers from Lenggries, Bad Tölz, Wolfratshausen and Munich are on duty at Brauneck.
The most unusual operation happened on Sunday.
The volunteers went out to help a paraglider that had crashed in the Stiealm area.
However, that turned out to be more difficult than expected.
"After the alarm by the control center on Sunday around noon, the detector could unfortunately no longer be identified and the innkeeper of the Stiealm could not give the mountain rescue service any information either," says Lina Feile, press spokeswoman for the Lenggries mountain rescue service.
A member of the Wolfratshausen mountain rescue service, which is stationed at the Latschenkopf, finally set out on foot to the area in question.
At the same time, the operations manager piloted a rescue helicopter to the site to search the area from above.
"He then spotted the man in the Latschenkopf area," says Willi Härtle from the Lenggrieser mountain rescue service.
"It must have made an emergency landing there." Fortunately, the pilot survived this unscathed.
He was also able to pack up his sports equipment on his own.
The helicopter team lowered a rescuer using the winch,
to accommodate the paraglider pilot.
The man was brought down into the valley and was "released home by the crew with a clear conscience," says Feile.
Paraglider spotted from helicopter
A total of 27 missions had to be dealt with over the weekend.
"There was a lot going on - and above all there was a lot going on very early on," says Härtle.
The alerts began around 10 a.m. on Saturday.
The helpers went out a total of eleven times that day.
In addition to the classic knee and foot injuries, there was also a dislocated shoulder as a result of a fall.
All patients were cared for and taken to the valley.
Sunday was not exactly relaxed for the troops either.
16 missions spread over about ten hours kept the rescuers on their toes.
"One to two hours can be expected per operation - including transporting away the patients and reprocessing the material used," explains Lina Feile.
The rescuers had to take care of a wide range of injuries.
There were the usual knee and foot injuries, a shoulder and spine injury, and a humerus fracture.
A woman suffered a laceration on her forearm.
According to the mountain rescue service, she had fallen.
A skier following behind was unable to avoid it and ran the edge of his ski over her arm.
Missing four-year-olds on the Draxlhang
There was still a lot to do during the final patrol, where all slopes are checked again by the mountain rescue service.
The mountain rescuers helped an exhausted person at the Milchhäusl down into the valley.
In addition, shortly before the end of the service, another emergency call was received by the mountain rescue service: A four-year-old was reported missing.
The little one had disappeared on the Draxlhang.
"I phoned the mother, who was very upset," says Härtle.
He took down the four-year-old's description, informed the other volunteers and telephoned the lift operators.
"The police were also informed." Fortunately, everything quickly resolved itself.
According to Feile, a passer-by discovered the girl and handed it over to her parents.
The mountain rescue team does not only respond to accidents at Brauneck.
At the weekend, she also supervised a cross-country ski race on the Bergbahnstrasse trail.
Two rescuers as well as medical equipment and a skidoo were stationed there to ensure the safety of the participants.
More current news from the region around Bad Tölz can be found here.