Scoutsjongens from Countries to rescue downed valschermspringster in Spa forests

This weekend there were two accidents with paratroopers taken place in our country. A group of scouts to the scouts from Countries have Saturday may have saved the life of the valschermspringster that crashed in Spa. Also this afternoon threw someone down in the hills of Oudsbergen. Both victims survived the blow.

The scoutsjongens, between 14 and 16 years old, met the woman in the woods, and notified the emergency services. “At first I thought she was dead, but they moved. She spoke French and asked us, her on her side. She is all the time conscious remained. It was a shocking experience, but we are happy that we have been able to save,” testified the 15-year-old Louis Ledoux. The woman injured.

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A group of sixteen experienced parachutespringers rose Saturday afternoon on from the airport of Spa-La Sauvenière. It is suspected that they are formations would form during their jump. But after they are out of the plane were blown, and it was time for their parachutes to open, succeeded one parachutespringster. The fall of the woman, a man in his fifties, was fortunately broken when she was in the trees again.

“We thought she was dead,”

“We saw a body lying down, a woman. We thought she was dead,” testified Ledoux along with his scoutsvrienden Ewoud (14), Korneel (15) and Luka (16). With a group of fourteen scouts were they when she the woman saw. “Out of fear I ran away, but the others saw that she was still moving. In French, she asked us whether we could turn around. They lay in a very unnatural position, with her legs in the wrong direction. It was then a quarter past three, I think. Beside the woman lay a noodparachute, which was open. She whimpered from the pain, her whole body. Luckily there was a guy with us whose mom French, he could speak with her. We have all the time on her ingepraat, its guaranteed that everything would be all right. Liam has the whole time, her wrist held to her heartbeat to check.”