River Rescue School with the Rovereto Fire Brigade
The Rovereto Fire Brigade's River and Flood Rescue Training concluded on Sunday 31 May.
The goal, which Commander Luca Minatti had set himself, was achieved: 9 firefighters were selected to attend the training and all 9 were certified as Rescue 3 SRT River and Flood Rescue Technicians.
The training took place over four very intensive days, starting in the Adige, continuing in Val di Sole on the Noce and ending on the Dora Baltea in the upper Valle d'Aosta, so that we were able to operate on three different types of rivers.
Responding to rescues in a river and flood environment is extremely risky.
"Being a river rescue technician does not mean being a river superhero," explains David Alemanni, director of the S.A.F.E.® River Rescue School. "It is necessary to be competent and know how to choose the best option to intervene so that rescuers remain the solution to the problem and do not risk becoming part of it. " . It was a great satisfaction to be able to work with competent, motivated, humble people, with great passion for their work.
Rescue 3 was the first river rescue standard born in the 1980s, in California.
Today, Rescue 3 Europe has adapted the US SRT standard, following European regulations and is recognised in 22 countries as the river rescue standard for fire brigades, civil defence and the military.
