Rescue at the last second: tragic commitment of the fire brigade Zwettl!

Rescue at the last second: tragic commitment of the fire brigade Zwettl!

An impressive year for the Red Cross Zwettl: with a huge 19,466 missions and a total route of over 1.3 million kilometers, 18 vehicles mastered records. "The Red Cross Zwettl circulated the earth 32 times," said Stefan Krapfenbauer, managing director of the district office. Under the operations, a large part of the health and rescue transports, in which 18,666 trips were carried out, were also 715 missions with emergency medical vehicles and numerous other special missions to transport care beds, such as Noen reported .

But while the helpers of the Red Cross took care of medical emergencies with flying colors, there were also tragic events. On December 22, 2024, at 9:27 a.m., the Zwettl-Stadt fire brigade alerted the emergency services for human rescue in Allensteiger Strasse. Passers -by had discovered a motionless person in the Kamp, which required immediate measures. A total of 16 members, including special forces from the fire brigade and a diver from the Allsteig water rescue, do everything possible to save the person. Despite the rapid reaction of the rescue workers, only death could be determined, a bitter blow for the community. The fire brigade expressed their deepest sympathy for the relatives, as ff Zwettl announced.