Avalanche on the hotel hotel Rigopiano. Extracted a victim. Two people rescued. “The guests were in the lobby ready to go off” – The Republic

CONTINUE the research to save the people buried under the rubble of the hotel Rigopiano, run over yesterday by an avalanche in the municipality of Farindola, province of Pescara, a result of the tremors of the earthquake that hit central Italy. A man has been extracted without life, two people are rescued, but there are still many missing. And unfortunately many of the victims. “There are so many dead,” he dettto Antonio Crocetta, one of the leaders of the alpine Rescue of abruzzo that since yesterday evening it is put in gear to reach the resort.

The two people put in unless they are Giampiero Wall and Fabio Salzetta, that at the time of the landslides were located on the outside of the structure and were able to raise the alarm. Are in good physical condition and were repaired on the inside of the car. “I am saved because I went to take a thing in the car, my wife and my two children stayed in the hotel,” he said to the doctors Wall, is 38 years old. “Came the avalanche – said still to health the 38-year-old – have been submerged by the snow, but I managed to get out. The car has not been buried, and then I wait there for the arrival of the emergency services”. The man, a resident of Montesilvano (Pescara), assisted by the staff of Reanimation of the hospital of Pescara and by the psychologists of the Asl, arrived in a state of hypothermia, but the clinical picture is not of concern. “Giampiero and all the other hotel guests had paid and they had reached the hall, ready to go again as soon as he would arrive snowplow. He had been told that would come at 15, but the arrival has been postponed to 19. They have already prepared the bags, all the customers wanted to go away,” said Quintino Marcella, restaurateur and employer of the survivor. Is the restaurateur that the Wall has raised the alarm after the avalanche. “They didn’t believe me,” he ggiunto.

The rescuers, ten financiers who have managed to come with the skis and into the hotel, they say: “we will Call aloud, but no one answers”. The viceprefetto di Pescara, Charles Toriontano, announced: “A moving column with a turbine aspires has just arrived, where was the roof. It would seem that the structure has been moved by the shock wave. Around 11 a.m. arrived on the spot the moving column with the turbine was that aspires. Are releasing the square to begin digging with mechanical means”. So far, the rescuers had dug with their hands.

The scenario is described in the apocalypse, “a tragic mixture between an earthquake and an avalanche”. The indoor swimming pool, which stood in front of the structure, is collapsed on a floor below the level of the entrance of the hotel. The pool is completely frozen almost completes but at his back, from where came the customer there is a single mass of snow, rubble and debris of trees. The avalan che has in fact destroyed the glass dome that covered the underground structure by penetrating into the wider area of the Spa.

The building housed between twenty and thirty people, including two children. A resuscitator is bringing together workers in the hotel, because, he himself said “there are children involved in the collapse”. The prefecture of Pescara maintains the confidentiality of the victims, while confirming the extraction of a person without life: “I don’t want to give figures about the victims. The first should be alerted about the family, I want to first have the certainty of the situation,” said the prefect Francesco antonio Provolo.

“Are in except for two people, writes the president of the Province of Pescara, Antonio Marco on his profile on Facebook – the same who had sent the help message. There are several wounded, but we still don’t know how many are still missing or even dead. Certain that the structure has been taken in full by the avalanche, so much so that it is moved ten metres”. The mayor of Farindola, Hilary Lacchetta, always on the Facebook, writes “the avalanche is large and has involved the whole hotel. The zone remains dangerous for any detachments”.

The snow prevents transport to get to the second part of the ‘caterpillar’, a small snow cat that might be able to make their way and can transport up to eight persons, reversed, as well as a patrol of carabinieri.

it Seems that some of the guests they managed to get away before the avalanche you knock down the structure but still it is not clear how many managed to escape. Yesterday, shortly before the tragedy, the hotel management had informed that “due to weather conditions and heavy snowfall, the telephone lines were interrupted”, inviting customers to contact the hotel at e-mail address. “Help, help we’re dying of cold”: so a couple guest of the hotel, has written to the rescue with a text message.

In the Pens, you are working to set up a collection point for relatives of missing people under the avalanche. Many of the family members of the guests of the hotel are in the town since yesterday evening and the Municipality is in charge of the service. The collection point should be located in the vicinity of the operating Centre hall, where yesterday, on the disposal of the Prefect of Pescara, is on the Place of coordination in the advanced management of severe weather warnings.

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the earthquake of January 18, 2017

the earthquake of January 18, 2017

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