Two teenage girls rescued after fall in Strubklamm gorge near Ebenau, Austria, Digi Mart USA News (Ebenau, Flachgau, Salzburg, Austria): Mountain rescue in Salzburg was alerted shortly after midnight on Monday to assist two 14-year-old girls who had slipped down a steep wooded slope near Ebenau in the Flachgau district.
The girls had slid roughly 50 meters toward the Strubklamm gorge and came to rest in a gully on terrain at risk of further falls, according to the Salzburg Mountain Rescue service. Alarms were raised around 12:30 a.m.
“They were injured, hypothermic and soaked,” said the rescue operation leader, Gerwin Andreas. Volunteer firefighters from Ebenau arrived first at the scene, and one firefighter was lowered on a rope to the girls and secured them so they could not slide farther down the rocky ground.
Mountain rescue personnel then descended to the girls, who received first aid, with an emergency paramedic from the rescue service also on site. The girls were placed in a vacuum mattress and hauled up the rope toward the road using a stretcher and a team-operated rope system.
The Red Cross transported both girls to hospital. “The girls were really lucky that they did not slide any further.
They were also exposed to falling rocks from above,” the operation leader said.
Twelve mountain rescue personnel from the Salzburg local unit, the Ebenau volunteer fire department, police and the Red Cross took part. The operation lasted until about 3:00 a.m.
It is not known why the two girls were in the steep wooded area so late in the evening.
