Roads, bike paths, lakes and bathing areas were full on the long weekend.
That meant a lot of work for rescuers, especially on Lake Ammer.
Breitbrunn/Buch/Starnberg
- Two days of summer, one day of moderate weather - that was the weekend in the Fünfseenland.
Thousands flocked to the district and to the lakes, especially on Saturday and Sunday.
Especially at Lake Ammer, this caused the water rescuers to be deployed, fortunately hardly at Lake Starnberg.
It also burned – the bike race, on the other hand, went almost like clockwork.
missing person searches
In principle, searches for missing persons in the lake are less common in the everyday life of the lifeguards, and yet they have happened more frequently this year.
However, three searches in one day are unusual for the water rescuers, as happened on Sunday: the series began at 5:41 p.m.
A Herrschinger couple called the water rescue station in Herrsching concerned about a swimmer who had gone swimming with her dog in Breitbrunn about three and a half hours earlier and had not returned.
She had left her things, such as backpack and SUP board, on the bank.
The rescuers informed the integrated control center in Bruck and immediately set off.
A major search operation was launched from Fürstenfeldbruck, supported by the Breitbrunn fire brigade, rescue service,
Police helicopters and forces from other water rescue services from Dießen and Schondorf.
Divers from the district water rescue service in Landsberg were also available, according to spokesman Christoph Ruml.
The Landsbergers also have their drone with thermal imaging camera ready for such cases.
The search had already lasted an hour when the missing swimmer, a 58-year-old woman from Munich, appeared safely.
As it turned out, the woman had swum her dog to an acquaintance's boat moored in the buoy field and stopped there, police said.
emerged safely.
As it turned out, the woman had swum her dog to an acquaintance's boat moored in the buoy field and stopped there, police said.
emerged safely.
As it turned out, the woman had swum her dog to an acquaintance's boat moored in the buoy field and stopped there, police said.
Lifeguard rescuers weren't back at their stations when another 911 call came in.
This time a 21-year-old swimmer went missing.
The young man, himself a water rescuer in Schwabmünchen and with his colleagues at the Ammersee, swam across the Ammersee (with a glowing swimming buoy) from Buch to Schondorf and back, according to Ruml.
But probably so fast that his colleagues didn't notice that he was back on land long ago.
After half an hour of searching, the misunderstanding was cleared up.
The 21-year-old was returning safe and sound from a stroll along the shore when he was surprised to find he was the one being searched for.
Shortly thereafter, passers-by reported an abandoned inflatable paddle boat in Utting.
To be on the safe side, a third search was launched, but it was canceled after about an hour without finding anything.
Ruml emphasizes to the Starnberger Merkur that the concerned callers did everything right.
The worst case scenario must always be assumed.
Walter Kohlenz from the DLRG Pöcking am Starnberger See thinks the same way: It's better to search too much than to be too late.
There was also “a lot going on” on Lake Starnberg on Sunday.
Kohlenz is happy that there were no further operations there, "apart from the usual medical ones in the bathing area".
Before Feldafing, the water rescue service had to tow a sailing boat with which six people from Munich were on the lake – then there was a calm and the engine went on strike.
wildfire
On the former garbage dump between Gautinger Straße and Leutstettener Moos, undergrowth burned on an area of around 50 square meters on Saturday, which posed no problems for the 23 men from the Starnberg, Söcking and Leutstetten fire brigades.
The police found a liquor bottle - whether it has something to do with the fire is being determined.
