Two days after the avalanche that struck the hotel Rigopiano Farindola are ten of the survivors. The men of the relief to have them identified in the area of the kitchens under the slab. In the evening, the fire department has pulled alive three children, in addition to his wife and son Giampiero Wall, the first survivor of the avalanche. “Go to my daughter’s in the next room,” said the woman to the rescuers, who are now looking for the girl. The woman and the little one were brought to the hospital of Pescara, where they were able to hug the Wall. Among the survivors also Sebastian Charles, his wife Nadia, and his son Edward of ten years of Loreto Aprutino (Pescara).
“as soon as they saw us they were very happy and were not able to speak. From the eyes you could tell that they were upset positively to having seen,” he told the vice brigadier of the alpine rescue of the Guardia di finanza, Marco Bini. According to doctors, the heavy clothing and being in closed environments are the conditions that have allowed the survivors to not cool down too much and hold on for two days. During the press conference of health care workers, family members of the missing, evidently shocked by this tragedy, have challenged screaming: “We stayed 50 hours without any information, shame on you!”
rescuers are in contact with the people still under the rubble. “With people still to be recovered,” explains Luke Dear, the head of communications in emergency fire service – we are in voice contact. You are inside a compartment, not easy to achieve”. The group is located in the recreational area of the hotel, where there were the bar and the billiards room. Firefighters are using sophisticated instruments that can locate the cell-dispersed with a high level of accuracy.
first contact with the group of survivors there was a little after 11, thanks to the dogs that have them are identified. From the outside, in fact, felt items: the structure has protected them, but you cannot communicate with the outside world, also because of the snow absorbs the sounds. “It was beautiful, they did not believe their eyes, and we embraced it,” she told the rescuer who, however, warns: “Most of the time you can’t go forward because there is a risk that parts of the structure are collapsing.” And with rising temperatures increases the risk of new landslides, a particularly high risk in the area, explained Bini – back to the hotel that remains very dangerous.”
To help rescuers in the search-there is a maintainer of the hotel, Fabio Salzetta, he also survived. Is leading the fire department in the areas of the hotel, where they were customers prior to the avalanche, in order to accelerate relief operations.
Perhaps the exception of the family of Osimo. May be without prejudice three of the survivors from the marches: Domenico Di Michelangelo, 41 years old, Chieti, policeman in the service of Osimo, province of Ancona, the wife, Marina Serraiocco, 37 years old, Peoples, and their child of 7 years. This is confirmed by the mayor of Osimo Simone Schwarz, who quotes sources “of the family and of the police force,” but officially confirm it.
“This recovery of the survivors, gives us more hope,” said Titti Postiglione, head of emergencies and civil Protection during the point and print in Rieti. “We will be quiet when they are all adequately cared for as the first people already rescued,” explained Postiglione. “Then we will understand if this is an isolated episode or series of episodes, and this will lead rescue operations. The hopes we have always had, even if in this type of operation will fade as time goes by”.
yesterday, we dig into the pile of snow and rubble that was the hotel Rigopiano Farindola, in a race against time to save the survivors. There has been a respite in the snowfall, but the temperatures climb above freezing have resulted in a reduction of the snow making it more difficult operations. At the moment, only three bodies have been extracted. It was also identified the second victim: this is Gabriele D’angelo, waiter hotel. Were the relatives to confirm it. Still remains uncertain of the number of scattered between employees and customers.
“Never seen anything like it”. “Here we unite two different scenarios: the avalanche, which deal with a natural disaster like a mini earthquake. I have never seen anything like this,” said the spokesman for the alpine Rescue Walter Milan. Then explain the situation at altitude: “At work there are more than sixty people, among the various institutions. Will the new vehicles and with the helicopters bring the teams. Gradually there will be mechanical means which must work together with men, before you make an inspection in the snow and then takes it all off”.
the destruction of The hotel. has been an avalanche of devastating, that he has buried a large part of the structure, becoming also the road inside of the various environments, and then wiped out what was on his road, as he had done with a wide front of the trees that was in the front of the hotel. Indeed, this mass of trunks was the more that has brought destruction because the shock wave was even stronger. A event killer triggered probably by the 4 earthquakes of magnitudes between 5.1 and 5.4 of the day Wednesday, with its epicenter in the area of l’aquila, but strongly felt on this side of the region of abruzzo, where the avalanche risk was already classified as a 4 (on a scale of 5) because of the great contributions of snow for several days at a time.
An avalanche that has also resulted in a sort of ‘translation’ of the building, that is to say it has moved ten metres forward and is not excluded that some of the missing may have been swept up and dragged out from the perimeter of the building. Therefore, the research also cover the area outside the hotel, that is, the front slope of the avalanche the snow.
Relief to the limits of the possible. “Using an expression that is a bit improper: to Rigopiano, there was an implosion to the inside – has explained yesterday the head of the civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio – the intervention of The hotel Rigopiano is the limits of the possible,” he added, also highlighting the precarious security in which to operate the rescuers – We have spoken with all the operators on the territory and the idea is to support those who are working on the place. It is a scenario that is critical.”
The wait of the family members. Is in the town of Penne, in the province of Pescara, which it consumes in the meantime, the anguish of the relatives of the guests and employees of the hotel Rigopiano. The atmosphere of the voltage to the hospital, where, in a wing of the hotel, waiting for updates. With them are the volunteers of the association ‘Psychologists for the peoples is to bring assistance to individuals, families, groups and communities affected by calamities, disasters, severe accidents, as well as for the sudden disappearance of family members.
Investigations. On the matter the pm of Pescara Andrea Papalia has opened an investigation for manslaughter. Already in the day yesterday, investigators listened as a witness Giampiero Wall. Very probably, as soon as the operations research people will be completed, the structure will be placed under seizure. You try to understand so many things, starting with the decision to locate the hotel at that point, that in many of these hours have called “fully exposed”.
The carabinieri, the forest of Pescara are in the Province to capture all of the papers relating to contingency plans and relief of the area Vestina, Penne towards the mountain, designed and implemented by the Province. Movements, the organization of spalaneve, turbines, requests for relief and with regard to the viability of that area. Everything is in the light of the weather warning and avalanches that have affected in the past few days the entire region of Abruzzo. The acquisitions serve to make clarity on the work of the sector, prior to the establishment of the Coc in Pens and later to a collaboration with this.
The magistrate. “our duty is to provide a reconstruction that is as accurate as possible: even if you do not come to a criminal trial, for the debt we owe to society, our duty is to provide answers,” said the deputy prosecutor of Pescara, Cristina Tedeschini, who together with the pm Papalia coordinates the investigation. “We must ask ourselves if those people were to be there when it happened, the avalanche? That hotel, in that historical moment, was supposed to be open? That structure could stay there? If the people at some point wanted to go away, what has prevented this happening? And more in general: what happened is, it was determined by human behaviours reprehensible, type omissions, reckless or imperito?”. Then there is the issue of delays in the recovery: “it’s an important topic, which we will discuss, but the fact to ask questions does not in itself imply a judgment.”
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