The Trenčín crew of the helicopter emergency medical service Air Transport Europe (ATE) intervened on Thursday (26 June) in the village of Bolešov in the Ilav district. She saved a man with burns he suffered in a hot -air balloon fire. She informed ATE on the social network.
The hot -air balloon carrying several people began to burn. The crew of air rescuers took care of the care A 62-year-old man who suffered second and third-degree burns and inhalation trauma.
“The patient was primarily treated, put into artificial sleep and with serious burns, was transported by air to the burns of burns and reconstruction surgery in Bratislava. Other injuries remained in the care of the ground rescue crews,” Informed air rescuers.
According to the Regional Directorate of the Fire and Rescue Corps in Trenčín, eight professional firefighters from Dubnice nad Váhom with four pieces of technology intervened.
