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The rescue of the speleologist Ottavia Piana continues in the Bueno Fonteno Abyss, in the province of Bergamo. The Veneto Alpine and Speleological Rescue Service - CNSAS, is conducting the recovery operations and has shared a video of the difficult phases of the rescue on Facebook.
The rescue of speleologist Ottavia Piana continues
The alarm was raised late on Saturday evening, December 14. The operations they prove particularly complex for rescuers, who find themselves working in extremely narrow underground tunnels, where a person can barely fit.
In the meantime, yesterday the woman was transferred to a point in the cave where a heated base camp. Here a doctor and a nurse reached her, who found severe trauma to the legs, face and chest. Despite this, the 33-year-old is doing well and is cooperating with rescuers as much as possible.
"She is transported on a special stretcher horizontally attached to the cableway and we expect to have it rescued by Wednesday,” confirmed Luca Longo, one of the rescuers in action.
Since this morning the stretcher has been making its way with difficulty through the narrowest part of the cave, which needs to be cleared. About a hundred rescuers are involved in the operation: about twenty inside, armed with drills and with the ability to use explosives to widen the tunnels and pass the stretcher, while another 70 coordinate the operations on the surface. To extract it safely they could be still more than 30 hours needed.
Ottavia Piana's first words
“He said that he will never go down into a cave again e of wanting to abandon speleology forever", explains to Republic the doctor who assisted her, Rino Bregani, from the Policlinico of Milan.
She had already been stuck inside the same cave, more or less in the same area, last July 2023. This time, Piana and fellow speleologists from the CAI Group of Lovere, were looking for new ravines as part of an activity known as 'Sebino Project'.
The rescue of the speleologist Ottavia Piana continues: the costs
Lombardy, with the Regional Council Resolution no. X/4340 of 20 November 2015, has established the costs for emergency interventions. When a diagnosis or medical services in the Emergency Room are not necessary, the costs are paid by the user: €1500 per hour for air rescue and €95 per hour for interventions by land. Discounts of 30% are foreseen for residents of Lombardy and increases of 30% in the event of imprudent behavior.