The Regional Civil Protection Service, IP-RAM guarantees that, since the beginning of this year, the Rescuer-Salvador valence, which has 7 firefighters from the Helitransported Brigade with technical-operational skills for search and rescue missions on land, has already carried out, since January 2023, 13 rescues in the mountains of the island of Madeira. The rescues gained a total of 9 hours and 36 minutes of flight time, rescuing 16 victims, most of them on existing pedestrian routes in the municipalities of Santana and São Vicente.
Air transport has already carried out 13 rescues this year in the mountains of Madeira
