Marmolada, rescuers at work: “Second day of land searches”

Land searches resumed in the area affected by the detachment of the Marmolada glacier, downstream of the flow, where about ten hikers were swept away by the avalanche on Sunday 3 July. At dawn, after a quick briefing, the helicopter took the operators up to inspect the lower part of the detachment where the safety conditions are greater and where ‘sentries’ and sirens would guarantee the possibility of escape in the event of new collapses. . At work there are 14 rescuers with two dogs of the Guardia di Finanza who will go on for a few hours, then they will continue to inspect the area with drones, safer when the temperatures on the ice increase. Yesterday the operators managed to identify and recover the tenth victim of the avalanche. The death toll is six identified victims: three Venetians (Filippo Bari, Paolo Dani and Tommaso Carollo), a woman from Trentino (Liliana Bertoldi) and two tourists from the Czech Republic (Pavel Dana and Martin Ouda) while five remain the people claimed: the spouses Davide Miotti and Erica Campagnaro, boyfriends Manuela Piran and Gianmarco Gallina, and 22-year-old Nicolò Zavatta; it is not excluded that they are among the bodies already recovered by the rescuers and that therefore only one missing person is missing. The research is concentrated downstream of the detachment of the serac of Punta Rocca, on the Marmolada. The operations – involving women and men from the Trentino Alpine and Speleological Rescue, the Financial Police Alpine Rescue with two dog units, the Moena Police Alpine Training Center, the Permanent Fire Brigade of Trento and the Alpine Rescue team of the Carabinieri – they started at 6.15 am and will continue “as long as safe weather conditions make it possible”. Ice stability is monitored live by experts from the Civil Protection Center of the University of Florence, who collaborate with the forecasting and planning office of the Autonomous Province of Trento, through data collected by interferometric and doppler radars installed at the beginning of the week. to be able to record any anomalous movements of the massif. For now the glacier seems to hold, but other collapses cannot be ruled out.