PENNE (Pescara) There are historical data of scientific, that suggest the worst. There are descriptions of the rescuers entered the hotel gutted that tell the entire destructive power of the avalanche. There is the time that passes and works against it. And then there is that small light of hope lit for those who are waiting for news of a son, a mother, a brother… “When we are scattered, as in this case, every meter more that we do, without finding it, every day that passes is the equivalent of a little hope less”, consider Alberto Maiolo, the leader of the fire Brigade to work without stop from last Wednesday, with another 150 of his colleagues, which allow shifts of 70 people to work at the same time on the front of the avalanche.
hope
A spark of hope, it was said. “And we will not be us to turn it off — sigh Adriano Favre, even him among the snow of the avalanche —. If we had absolute certainty that there is no longer anyone alive to look for I do not believe that you would continue to work even in the night, and from the point of view of general security, believe me, instead it would make sense to suspend the search at night and resume in the morning”. It is a life that Favre is studying the avalanches and manager of the alpine rescue of the Valle d’aosta has seen so many. And while the hotel Rigopiano comes the confirmation of the ninth victim in the rubble (the eighth is Linda Salzetta. The seventh is a woman, while the sixth victim has not yet been recovered), he responds to the question of questions: is it possible to find someone still alive to Rigopiano? “Under the snow, certainly no, you can not survive all these days — she says — but perhaps amo ng the rubble of the hotel collapsed there were spaces with people trapped, even if I have to say that I see it as a hypothesis rather remote”.
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Rigopiano, the difficult work of first-aiders: in the dark, and with the danger of avalanches
Behind the wall
If you really exist, that the possibility of salvation is behind of a concrete wall of eighty centimetres, which divides the fire from the room to the bar and the kitchen area of the hotel. Behind there is suggests that it might be the last great part integrates unexplored, in the Rigopiano: an angle that might have withstood the shock wave of the avalanche, and where there may, in fact, of the dispersed (with the victim recovered yesterday) are now 22. It must be said that at that point, however, neither the geophone of the fire or the avalanche dogs have reported people in life. All the rest of the structure, where it was considered likely that the formation of “pockets” of salvation has been inspected. And if behind that wall is still to be overcome there was no one you could ever hope to say the technical — not in groups, but only in individual cases of persons still in life, in some small niche. However, already today the fire should re ach the bar because yesterday some of their heavy vehicles, which will make much faster work, they were able to get closer to the hotel after the opening of a gate on the back. Mario Costa, the honorary president of the 118, which coordinates the activities of the emergency systems, the regional, the test to be positive: “One possibility is always there. There might be conditions to survive.”
The survival
The south tyrolean Hermann Brugger is the director of the Institute of emergency medicine in the mountains of the Eurac Research of Bolzano. Is a professor and is among the most experienced in the world of survival in case of avalanche and answers from the scientist to the question on the possible survivors of Rigopiano. “The chance of surviving an avalanche after six days is close to zero, it must be said with sincerity”, he says. “Why such a thing happens, need a lot of variables put together, and have a large space in which to move, be covered as well, not to be injured, to be able to drink, have a good supply of oxygen in order not to lose too much heat and not to go to the hypothermia. We take into account the fact that a hypothermia severe could not allow life for the next six days. All this makes it very difficult for the hypothesis of survival in a condition like that of the hotel Rigopiano”. The professor goes straight to the point. “After six days of a rescue organized with a lot of people, with the probes of steam, with the dogs that don’t feel anything, and with no signals, not even from the tools… not alimenterei too many illusions. Of course it is difficult that someone might swear that all was finished, and I don’t do it myself, it can always happen, the fact unexpected. Let’s say that a very fine thread of hope is still there. There is only one case in the world of a woman in Austria has held for 13 days in a house and under the avalanche. And instead of the record-breaking survival of a person buried under the avalanche without any debris is of a canadian tourist in Italy, Macugnaga: alive after 48 hours. I say it with sorrow for the families of those waiting for news, but also with the sincerity and the awareness that comes from 25 years of study of the matter: the experience tells me that the possibility of a life in there is very small”.
January 23, 2017 (the edit on the 23rd January 2017 | 23:46)
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