Cesena, fall from the old bridge. Dive to save her – Chronicle

Cesena, May 12, 2020 – They Did It all to save a woman who fight now in the hospital between life and death . They are two agents (and a citizen was still unknown) of the local Mercato Saraceno police who, on duty around 10.35 in the morning at the Ponte Vecchio, were alerted by a couple of people who reported that a woman, hasty from the bridge, it poured into the riverbed. Savio

Without thinking twice about the assistant Ermanno Perpignani he ran to the river bank, the mountainside, and gained meters moving quickly in the water with his half leg, while the colleague, Inspector Secondo Ambrosini activated 118, the Cesena local police and the carabinieri who rushed to the site in a few minutes .

“I am It got to the point where the woman, unconscious, rested with her body on a concrete base on the surface of the water and her head was completely poured into the water – says Ermanno Perpignani, who in the past received praise for his service. made in Meldola -. A citizen helped me move it towards the central pylon of the bridge, placing it in a supine position. Immediately I thought of the worst and with the force of despair I began to practice a continuous, constant heart massage. I had the protective mask and glasses that bothered me, but I continued because the water escaped from the lungs and with this maneuver I managed to free the respiratory tract. I took turns at this practice with Inspector Ambrosini. We realized with surprise that she was still alive, so firefighters, 118 and carabinieri intervened. Regarding that gentleman who helped us in the rescue, we do not know who he is, he left without leaving his personal data. We would like to thank you, appear. “

The woman She is over sixty years old, she is originally and lives in the area, in Bufalini she underwent an operation for seven hours, unfortunately her conditions are still very serious, now she has a prognosis reserved for intensive care. The Mayor of Mercato Saraceno, Mónica Rossi, praised the intervention of her two agents: “I am proud of them and for them, what is more than saving a human life?” In fact, if the assistant Ermanno Perpignani had not lifted the woman’s unconscious and unconscious head out of the water, the end of this sad story would have been written in a few minutes.