The eighteen year old from Pieve di Soligo will receive an award for her gesture from the Municipality of Pieve and from the Assoproprietari of Porto Santa Margherita
PIEVE DI SOLIGO. “I’m a little dazed, but I’m also happy. But I am focused on my work, the next few days will be like the others for me. I share this experience with Andrea Fregolent, Silea’s colleague who helped me a lot to save the three boys. They were two girls and a 12-year-old male ». Gaia Barella has just received the news that she could receive an award both from her municipality, Pieve di Soligo, and from the owners’ association of Porto Santa Margherita, where the rescue took place last Tuesday, on a day characterized by very strong currents in the sea.
“We have trained lifeguards – said the president Lauro Catto – Gaia makes us proud to come to the beach to serve”. Yesterday a new mishap. At tower 44 some swimmers reported the presence of a vertebra, which would belong to a human being. With Gaia we return to that day: «I was struggling with the normal break, then I noticed those kids in the water in difficulty».
«We are happy – says the manager of the pievigina swimming pool Gianluca Amistani, to Nostra Famiglia, where Gaia obtained the patent – that Gaia has been able to put to good use what she has learned in the past years from us. He has shown great maturity and lucidity ».
The echo of this action was very wide, from the Venetian to the Treviso, where the 18-year-old lives. Resident in Pieve di Soligo, Gaia Barella is also from Service4swim, and obtained the rescue license last winter. He said that, in order to reach the boys in difficulty, he had to circumvent stormy sea conditions. Once she got over the cliff it was easier for her, with favorable wind and current, to reach the three kids. Back on the shoreline, she received congratulations from numerous other swimmers who, trembling, watched the rescue operations from the beach. Gaia hoped that somehow the parents of the boys would show up immediately. It is also not to be excluded that the same, however, have “hidden” the prank, without uttering any word in the family. The summer continues, and with Gaia and Andrea Fregolent on the lookout, swimming in Caorle remains a certainty.