Search for missing persons: Water rescue uses drones for the first time
Created: 06/20/2022, 09:30 am
Looking at the screen of a drone.
© Photo: Wasserwacht Kreisverband München
The newly acquired drone of the Unterföhring water rescue service was used for the first time in a search for missing persons on Lake Feringa.
A mother reported her six-year-old daughter missing around 4:19 p.m.
Exercise at Lake Feringa with lifeboat and drone.
© Kreiswasserwacht Munich
District
– The emergency services rotated the camera over Lake Feringa and its shores while the mother was involved in the search on a screen in the water rescue station.
The fire brigade and police were also alerted.
Around 4:47 p.m., police officers gave the all-clear.
They had discovered the child in the nearby allotment garden.
Search operation by lifeboat
The Unterföhring water rescue service had previously searched for an adult man by boat on Corpus Christi Day, whom his wife had reported missing.
The rescuers found him safe and sound in the lake.
He rested from swimming on a buoy, says a spokeswoman for the district water rescue service in Munich.
Preventing drunks from bathing
At the Unterschleißheimer See, the water rescue service tried several times in vain to prevent a drunk person from swimming on Saturday evening.
The danger was only averted when the alarmed police took the person away.
At Riemer See, numerous bathers have cut themselves on broken glass in the lake in the past few days, and the lifeguard warns of cut injuries.
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