About forty rescuers on the trail of the hiker missing since Thursday. Three helicopters engaged, from Bolzano the system that locates telephones and keys. The two dogs Tea and Jago may have smelled something useful. We leave this morning
VAL DI ZOLDO. The phone battery has run out. In the car parked in Pralongo, nothing that could help Federico Lugato’s research. The 39-year-old Venetian has been missing since Thursday afternoon, in the mountains above Val di Zoldo. It was supposed to be a warm-up walk for lunch at the in-laws’ house in Fornesighe, but the anguish of all his family has been going on for many hours now. Especially of his wife Elena, who has the Zoldo DNA printed in the surname Panciera and of his sister Nicoletta, who came from the Venetian province together with her partner, to follow the research with all the hope allowed by the time that passes inexorably and indifferent to people’s pain. , waiting at least for a signal. Something was picked up in the evening at Col Michiel by the Recco dell’Aiut Alpin Dolomites, a device capable of signaling the presence of mobile phones or electronic keys. A clue.
Only yesterday, about fifty rescuers, including Alpine Rescue, firefighters and rescue of the Financial Police, beat the whole area of the ring around the Angelini hut centimeter by centimeter, which Lugato had chosen as the arrival of his walk, without finding anything . There were also firefighters and finance helicopters (with Imsi Catcher for mobile phones, drones with thermal imaging cameras and the two search dogs Tea and Jago, the second from the Alpine Rescue. determined area and it is precisely there that all the efforts with the comb technique have been concentrated. The one in which the rescuers arrange themselves in a straight line spaced so that the space between two consecutive operators is “beaten on sight” and the interval depends from the morphology of the land, but at least for the moment not even the most selective method has allowed us to find the employee of the Italian railway network, who lives in Milan.
The early darkness at the end of August brought back Alpine Rescue and Sagf, who are back at 7 am this morning, while the firefighters have not moved from the base camp set up next to the Valzoldana sports field. Where Olimpia Salese, the soccer team of Santa Maria di Sala, also in the province of Venice, is doing the summer training. The amateur footballers were moved whenever one of the two helicopters took off or landed, causing the grass to shake.
Several high altitude missions have been made, but neither good nor bad news has come from up there. Lugato left on Thursday morning, around 8.30, for a round trip lasting an average of four hours, from Pralongo to the Baita Angelini bivouac, passing through Forno di Zoldo and Colcever. Passionate about the mountains, he was dressed appropriately, but for an excursion that was to last until lunchtime, no longer. Nothing particularly heavy, in short, for the simple fact that it would not have helped. So that Mrs. Elena was calm, thanks to an application, she had downloaded a popular route to her mobile phone, which among other things did not present any particular pitfalls. Even the very young go there, according to the people of Zoldo.
Lunch was already on the table, but no news of Lugato and growing concern, due to the fact that he no longer answered the phone. In the Tamer – San Sebastiano mountain range, it is not certain that there is camp everywhere. But at 5 pm the woman decided to alert 118 and the rescue machine left, starting with the Val di Zoldo Alpine Rescue. Then yesterday afternoon, on the initiative of the Prefecture, the provincial plan for the search for missing persons was activated. On the first day, no results and even on the second, until the sun gave some light. Rescuers have used everything that technology makes available to them and the same family has mobilized a friend, who has a drone. After lunch, attempts to contact Lugato by phone crashed into the metallic voice of the telephone operator. Mobile phone exhausted, but the hope still alive, even if more and more feeble, useless to hide it. The Recco remains.
This morning the searches resume in full force, always with helicopters, drones and dogs. –
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