Overview
- On Sunday, December 28, the civil‑security helicopter evacuated four injured men from the Aravis and flew them to Annecy hospital.
- The day’s interventions included an 18‑year‑old hiker with an ankle injury at Aiguille Verte around 10:00 and a 23‑year‑old skier with thoracic trauma at Grand‑Bornand around 11:30.
- Rescuers later assisted a man in his sixties with a back injury near Manigod around 13:00 and a 75‑year‑old who tumbled about 150 meters on Mont Charvin around 14:30, suffering shoulder and facial injuries.
- On Monday, December 29, Dragon 74 conducted two additional piste rescues, airlifting a 25‑year‑old with abdominal trauma from La Clusaz to Annecy and relocating an adolescent with head trauma from Megève to Chamonix for ambulance transfer to Sallanches due to low cloud.
- Officials describe multidisciplinary crews and frequent use of hoisting when landing is unsafe, with many missions completed in under 45 minutes during a year that saw roughly 1,100 deployments.