"Nock Alert 2025": Red Cross Concluded Emergency Exercise in Carinthia

Since Thursday, over 500 Red Cross employees from all over Austria were deployed in Carinthia. Together with partner organizations, ten different deployment scenarios were trained, in which about 350 extras, portraying injured persons, had to be cared for.

Positive Conclusion After Red Cross Exercise "Nock Alert 2025" in Carinthia

The officials looked back positively on the exercise on Saturday, as stated in a press release: "The aim of the exercise was to train interregional cooperation, professionalize deployment structures, and strengthen coordination with external forces such as the fire department, police, armed forces, rescue dog brigade, St. John Ambulance, mountain rescue, and water rescue." The tested scenarios were very diverse, including a serious incident at a sports event in an ice rink - more than 100 participants had to be cared for, including numerous seriously injured. Other exercise scenarios included a fire on an excursion ship, a traffic accident with multiple vehicles including trapped persons, an accident with radioactive contamination, or a complex operation at a cable car mountain station, where high-altitude rescue and medical first aid in alpine terrain were practiced.

(APA/Red)

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