The search for a 69-year-old man who, this afternoon, had lost his orientation while searching for mushrooms in a wooded area in the municipal area of Roccaforte del Greco, in the heart of Aspromonte, ended with a positive outcome.
The fire brigade team from the provincial command of Reggio Calabria, detachment of Melito Porto Salvo, intervened on site, activated by the Operations Room following the request for help launched by the man’s relatives.
The three, after returning to the car parked along the main road, not seeing the fourth member of the group arrive and not being able to contact him by telephone, realized the difficult situation. The total lack of telephone network coverage in the area prevented, in fact, both reaching the relative and directly alerting the emergency services. For this reason they stopped a passing car, asking the driver to make the emergency call from a point covered by the telephone signal.
Upon receiving the report, the Fire Brigade Operations Room immediately ordered the team to be sent to the scene. At the same time, the operators managed to establish telephone contact with the missing person, providing him with the necessary information to share his GPS position.
Once the coordinates had been acquired, they were transmitted to the search team who, after about ten minutes of activity, managed to reach the man.
The 69-year-old, in good health, was then accompanied by the Fire Brigade to the car, where his three relatives were waiting for him.
The intervention ended without consequences for the person involved, thanks to the timely activation of the rescue machine and the coordination between the Operations Room and the team that intervened on site.