The story of the gendarmerie-eru who saved many people, including a man attacked by the bear
This spring, the adjutant-chief plutonier Ion Florin, head of the post of Gendarmes Montan Rucăr, received the distinction “The Honor Gendarmerie” for the numerous actions and interventions that put above all the good of his fellow citizens.
Ion Florin has been working for 13 years as a PHOTO MONTAN GENANDARM PERSONAL ARCHIVE
In the 24 years of his career so far, Ion Florin has been constantly noticed by numerous mountain rescue missions carried out under difficult conditions, fast and efficient interventions to limit the effects of natural disasters or active involvement in protecting the forest, hunting and fish fund.
In July 2024, in the village of Satic, Rucăr commune, he jumped in support of a man attacked by a bear, in which the correct application of the garage was vital to rescue the victim's life until the medical crew arrival, given that the man bleed abundantly.
What was the most difficult intervention of the over 24 years of career?
“There were many heavy missions, especially those in winter. I think the hardest intervention was, if I am not mistaken, in 2015, with several disappeared or wandering Ukrainian tourists in the Piatra Craiului Massif, one of whom died unfortunately after falling into about 700 meters. In a row.tells Ion Florin.
A very difficult recovery mission in which Ion Florin was noted was in October 2024, in the Piatra Craiului Massif, in which three persons remaining isolated on a rocky route, at an altitude of 2000 m, at night and under severe weather conditions.
The mission lasted 12 hours, being a difficult one under the conditions in which the temperatures were very low.
“I received an appeal somewhere around 5.30 pm, keeping that I had entered the morning at 8 o'clock. And it lasted the mission until the next morning at 8 o'clock, when I returned home. Initially the mission seemed simple, I knew there were three people blocked in a rock, I knew relatively. A leg.says Ion Florin, the honor gendarmerie of Romania.
The knowledge of the mountains, essential
He works in the post of Gendarmes Montan Rucăr from 2012, since the establishment. Ion Florin constantly takes courses, especially at a mountain center in Sinaia, where there are courses on different categories, three weeks each: “Without these courses or without experience it is difficult to fulfill your missions. And I think the highest quality we need to have, we need to know the area very well. But you don't learn in a year or two. All this is done over time. And we learned them..
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Unfortunately, there are situations when victims of various accidents on the mountain can no longer be brought back to life. This was the case in June 2017, when a truck with the military crashed into a gap at the Urdii Valley, and three people died.
“” I came from home then for that intervention, I was in my spare time. It was very harsh. Some of them knew them. We could only do the evacuation, we could get them out of there. I found only the dead they had not found and they could not save the others, who were in the first phase. Doctor.recalls Ion Florin.
In July 2024, in the village of Satic, the commune Rucăr, the gendarmerie-Erou jumped in support of a man attacked by a bear, in which the correct application of the garage was vital to save the victim's life until the medical crew arrived, given that the man bleed abundantly.
“I knew the area, I knew it couldn't get on the car. The crew couldn't get there. I got in touch with the man. He told us he was losing a lot of blood. That he was seriously injured in one foot. When I got there, he had a bloody boot. I climbed it in the ATV and we managed to take him to a SMURD crew who was transported to the hospital ”says Ion Florin.
