Man Rescued After Kayak Accident

A 46-year-old man was rescued by Alicante provincial firefighters aft hitting nan rocks successful Cala dels Testos, Benitatxell, connected Saturday August 30.

Emergency services were alerted astatine 10.56am, erstwhile nan provincial occurrence brigade’s rescue group was called retired to assistance nan man, whose kayak overturned owed to unsmooth seas, causing him to clang against nan rocks. He reportedly suffered a spinal injury.

The casualty was airlifted to nan Finestrat helipad, wherever he was transferred to precocious life support. The rescue cognition was completed astatine 12.39pm.

Just a time earlier, connected Friday August 29, nan aforesaid rescue group was called retired to assistance a 38-year-old female who injured her ankle while descending from nan Forat de Bernia towards La Font del Bernia. The siren was raised soon earlier 8pm, and pinch daylight fading fast, firefighters stressed nan urgency of nan cognition arsenic nan chopper could not alert successful darkness.

The female was airlifted and safely transferred to nan San Vicente occurrence station.

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