Proceed to step shipped, environmental conditions permitting, the operations of the “evacuation” of the 130 skiers blocked from the afternoon of today on the cable car Plan Maison – Cime bianche laghi due to the strong wind that did pass the cables of the ski lifts, just as it did in September on the Mont Blanc.
I Now also have a helicopter airline flight swiss Air Zermatt night-flight enabled is used in the operations. The wind lost force, and this has allowed the use, at least for now – of the aircraft in the support for the rescuers involved in a stunt from the ground by climbing on top of the pillars, and then through a hatch to enter in the cabins blocked for then drop people through the use of a winch. The manager of cable systems announces that at the moment they are to be evacuated again 6 cabins (out of a total of 25 in-line), for a total of about fifty people. Not of particular concern are the weather conditions, thanks to temperatures just below the freezing level.
once recovered, the passengers are made to board of snowmobiles and conducted to the station of Plan Maison. From there they are brought to the valley with the plants. There are more than 150 men of the alpine rescue of the guardia di finanza, forestry, civil protection and the fire brigade engaged in operations. On the spot also three ambulances and a minibus of 118 with five doctors. A picture also confirmed by a tweet of the Cervino spa, the society that manages the cable-car: “The workers of the relief do not report any critical issues, and everything is proceeding according to the evacuation plan. At the moment, it is going to bring back to the valley and on the safety of the skiing.”
Adriano Favre, a number of the mountain rescue in the Valley, is the point of the situation: “a Few dozens of guides and rescuers to the work they are doing supported by the guard of finance. The situation is under control, but the operations still require time. We are among the 2300 metres up to 2800. The strong wind and cold temperatures, but the situation is under control”.
The gondola is thus evacuated from the earth, taking advantage of the pylons: the rescuers are climbing the stairs, and then descend along the cable with the pulleys. Finally down on the roof of each cabin, from where to fall then to the ground passengers. A long process and that it will last a few hours. And are coming the first evidence of the tourists. “I was on the chairlift Cretaz when, suddenly, he raised a strong wind. It was about 15.30. In the many years that I’ve come to Cervinia, I have never seen such a thing”. He said to Ansa Edilio Colaotto, tourists of Genoa, which for many years he worked in the mountains of the Aosta Valley. “Snow drifts raised by the wind we were up against – he has told. I was on the chairlift with another skier who is clinging to the seat while the gusts made us sway. The chairlift stopped con tinuously, at the end, when we arrived at the summit, they closed the plant. I went down to the valley because it was not possible to ski”.
A similar episode had occurred in September, with the gondola lift from Aiguille du Midi and Punta Hellbronner on the French side of the Mont Blanc, due to a failure forced a hundred people to spend the night in the open, suspended in a vacuum. In reality the scenario is different, at least for some aspects. The word of the expert.
“Some of the cabins in the French are not reachable
from the ground, so you can evacuate without a helicopter. In Cervinia, the situation is different, the plant is able to reach from the ground,” he explained to Ansa marshal Maximilian Giovannini, in command of the station of the alpine Rescue of the Guardia di Finanza of Cervinia. “There is only one point more complicated, he adds, because of some leap of the rock, but you can decline the people if there is someone waiting for it”
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