Firefighter dragged by the Adige in a flood for 10 miles after diving to save a child: “I did my job”

He tried to save a boy who threw himself into the waters ofAdige but was dragged by 16 kilometers of the currents of River, surpassing two dams, before being rescued by his companions. He arrived at the hospital in a state of hypothermia, Danilo Marino, 39-year-old firefighter, originally from Formia but on duty in Verona, is now out of danger after 4 hours at the mercy of the waters of the Adige in its entirety and a temperature body fell to 34 degree. “I just did mine job, I was thinking about that, and the sorry not having saved a life ”, explained the firefighter.

It all started on Sunday night while everyone Roman Theater of Verona an event was in progress. At around 9:30 p.m., a doctor from Red Cross On guard at the structure, he noticed that in the nearby Ponte Pietra there was a man who had leaned dangerously against the parapet, shouting: “I don’t want to live anymore.” Thrown into the waters ofAdige, two joined cops who, first, tried to save him. They dove into the water, managed to catch it, and dragged a little further downstream by the current, they grabbed a branch sticking out of the shore. Meanwhile, the firefighters and Marino, dressed in thehydrous, approached the group in distress in an attempt to save the boy he agents.

When it seemed done, the branch that the two policemen and the boy, of Moldovan origin, had clung to, broke and the diver, together with the boy and one of the officers, were swept away by the river current. The policeman managed to escape to safety a hundred meters later, while the firefighter was trapped in the river currents. He passed the dikes of Pestrino me ZevioMarino had to wait more than four hours before his colleagues could locate and retrieve it.

They found him at 2.15 in the morning near a bridge that connects Zevio, a citizen from the southeast of the Venetian capital, where Marino had managed to grab. After the rescue he was transferred to the hospital of Borgo trento, in a state of hypothermia. Already on Monday his conditions improved and he was able to hug his two children and his wife. The partner, joined by Messenger Service, She commented saying: “I am very proud of him, luckily I only heard what happened after seeing him safe and sound.” Meanwhile, the search for the boy who jumped into the river continues: there is still no trace of him.