A 58-year-old has been killed in a kayaking accident in Flirsch. The circumstances are particularly tragic: the son tried in vain to save the father. Wolfgang Huber of the Landeck Water Rescue Service on a dramatic mission that lasted hours and ended up being just a matter of minutes.
“There was so much bad luck.” Wolfgang Huber, head of the water rescue operation in Landeck, pauses after this sentence. Then in an interview with the “Krone” he describes an extremely demanding rescue mission with no happy ending.
Caught with foot between two stones
“So much bad luck” – Huber means the fate of a German (58) and his son (24). As reported, the father died on Friday afternoon in a kayak accident on the Rosanna. The son tried to save the 58-year-old. But his strength was not enough. In the end, he had to watch his father drown.
Surgery to restore the body took hours
“We were able to secure the victim, but it was initially not possible to get him out of the water,” Huber describes what happened after the emergency services arrived on the scene. In addition to the Landeck water rescue service, paramedics, a rescue helicopter and the fire brigade of Strengen, Pians, Tobadill, Flirsch and Landeck were also alerted. Huber: “The fire service has erected so-called visual barriers along the river to quickly locate the drowned person if he were to be taken away.”
It took a technical trick to save the victim
After all, it was a technical trick that allowed the body to be recovered. In St. Anton, the locks of the Verwall reservoir were closed for a short time. “We didn’t have more than ten minutes in which the water level dropped enough to save the victim,” said the operations manager. It was now just before 5:00 PM. Three hours earlier, father and son had been looking forward to their kayaking trip.
Source: Krone
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