Overview
- The incident occurred Sunday afternoon at the Arzmooser Waterfall in Flintsbach am Inn during a family outing by a household from the Rosenheim area.
- The child was briefly buried by the icicle before the parents freed him and provided first aid, then alerted emergency services.
- About 20 Bergwacht Brannenburg rescuers, two police mountain guides, and the Christoph Murnau helicopter responded, with a mountain rescue physician, an emergency doctor, and a pediatric emergency doctor involved.
- The boy was stabilized on site and flown to the Unfallklinik Murnau, and police say his injuries are serious but not life-threatening.
- Authorities rule out third-party involvement and cite the icicle’s probable self-weight as the cause, while issuing public cautions about the difficult-to-assess stability of frozen waterfall ice; a crisis team supported the parents at the scene.