Welcome to the local montain rescue team of Mürzzuschlag!
March 8th, 1896 was the key date of the Austrian Montain Rescue. Because of an serious accident on the Rax mountain all members of the mountain clubs decided to build an alpine rescue institution. So called "local sites" has been established, in the same year also the montain rescue team (MRT) of Mürzzuschlag, a member team of the Austrian Montain Rescue. 1906 there were already 173 rescue teams in the Eastern Alps active.
Movie on the occassion of our 120th anniversary, which combines historical and contemporary: View!
26.8.23: Summer exercise and operation
This year's summer exercise was held on the Rax at the Martinsturm. The assumption was that a climber with companion had fallen into the rope and injured herself. Using a Dyneema rope, first the injured person was rescued with the rescue stretcher and then the uninjured climber. Afterwards, the comrades were able to rappelling themselves from the belay station over 70m to the base of the wall. See photos. During the debriefing at the Almgasthof Moassa we were then alerted to a fallen cyclist in the Traibachgraben near Krieglach. Together with the volunteer fire department of Langenwang, the rescue helicopter Christophorus 12, and the Red Cross Bruck-Mürzzuschlag, the athlete who had fallen about 10m over the embankment from the road into the forest was recovered and brought to the LKH Hochsteiermark with injuries of undetermined degree.
24.8.23: Operation at the Falkenstein
Due to exhaustion on the Falkenstein via ferrata, a person made an emergency call. The mountain rescue Neuberg roped the climber with the support of comrades of our local office from the wall. He remained unharmed.
20.8.23: Search operation on the Schneealpe
2 hikers got lost on their descent from the Schneealpe. After a long search for the right route, they finally made an emergency call, the exact position was unclear. Together with the mountain rescue Reichenau, mountain rescue Neuberg as well as the Alpine police and the helicopter of the interior ministry , the two could be quickly located and rescued from their predicament.
15.8.23: Operation in the "Lohmgraben"
In the Lohmgraben on the Schneealpe, a person injured his foot while descending. A comrade from our local station, who was nearby, climbed up to the injured person. In the meantime, the emergency helicopter has been alerted. The helicopter was then able to transport the person away by means of a rope rescue.
4.-5.7.23: Searchmission in Neuberg/Mürz
A big search operation for a missing person took place on Tuesday night and Wednesday in Neuberg an der Mürz. A total of 33 mountain rescuers from the Mürztal area and 63 men and women from the volunteer fire departments of Neuberg an der Mürz, Kapellen, Krampen, Mürzsteg, Frein and Altenberg, two fire departments (BTF Voestalpine Tubulars and fire department Kindberg city) with special search drones, 3 Alpine police officers and last but not least 4 dog handlers with their mountain rescue dogs specially trained to search for humans were looking for an 82-year-old local man, who had presumably already set out on Monday to search for mushrooms and had not returned home. Wednesday could the helicopter of the BMI support the search. The missing person could not be found. Thursday the search will be continued by a special dog squadron.
