Civil Protection of Totana worked yesterday in the rescue of a hiker who had broken his leg, possibly the tibia and fibula in Chico Peppers, at 1,500 meters altitude.
According to informed sources Civil Protection, yesterday at 14:28 Sunday, March 7, they received a call from the Emergency Coordination Centre in the Region of Murcia, 112, requesting personnel and equipment to move the injured person walk, and that due to weather conditions the helicopter could not access the area.
Civil Defence Volunteers moved from Totana to white collar, where the route, when the mountain road, lasted an hour.
Once there, the troops began the journey on foot for an hour and fifteen minutes to reach the wounded.
Rescue was reached once again to the base where he was a Red Cross ambulance Alhama to the doctor who immobilized the injured ankle to be transferred to the Health Center.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana