Overview
- In Las Heras, Mendoza, police aviation airlifted 53-year-old Nicolás Valladares after his quadricycle overturned and he fell into a ravine.
- Rescuers located the Mendoza site using GPS coordinates from a companion, landing the Halcón Uno helicopter about 300 meters from the crash area.
- On-scene medics treated Valladares for hypotension, tachycardia and a probable pneumothorax before flying him to Hospital Central, where he was admitted with polytrauma for observation.
- In Badajoz province, Spain, a 66-year-old man with a broken leg was moved by stretcher from a steep, rocky area at Finca El Madroño to a Servicio Extremeño de Salud helicopter.
- Emergency services in Spain included Guardia Civil, provincial firefighters from Hornachos and Villafranca de los Barros, and an ambulance, with the patient transferred to Hospital Universitario de Badajoz around 14:25.