According to the alarm statement received by HS, the woman said in the emergency call that they could not see in front of them. The wind had taken away the skis and poles.
“Now the wind is so strong that they can't see in front of them, they ask for a ride away from the terrain.”
This is how the emergency center operator recorded the emergency call that the woman who died in the avalanche made before the accident from Pallastunturi.
Based on the location information of the emergency call, the woman and her 12-year-old son had already strayed from their route near Pyhäkuru, where the avalanche occurred. They died in an avalanche last week on Tuesday, January 2.
The location information of the emergency call can be found in the written alarm report of the emergency center received by HS. Among other things, the content and coordinates of the emergency notification made by the woman are recorded in it.
Call According to the alarm report, Pallastunturi arrived at the emergency center on Tuesday of last week at 14:09:24. The woman said in the emergency call that she was skiing with her 12-year-old son on a summer route to the nature center.
Based on the emergency call, the woman and child could not see much in front of them. They had lost their skis and poles in the wind.
“The skis and poles ran away in the wind. It's going to get cold, they're trying to move forward,” the emergency center operator recorded the woman as saying.
That afternoon and evening, about 22 degrees of frost were measured in Pallastuntur. The wind was blowing around 13 meters per second from early afternoon, with gusts up to 16 meters per second.
At the time of the emergency call, the woman and child had already possibly lost their way from the summer hiking route they were on. Based on the coordinates of the emergency call, they were four hundred meters from the route at that time.
According to the alert report, the emergency center recorded C as the urgency of the task.
“It means a non-urgent task. In practice, then there is no alarm drive, but we still get going right away. In terms of time, it didn't make a big difference,” says the rescue manager of Lapland's rescue service Harri Paldanius.
The police have said that the rescue service unit reached the place where the mother made the emergency call in about 50 minutes. However, there were no more tracks in the snow.
It appears from the alarm report that the authorities tried to reach the woman by phone again after the emergency call, but were unable to contact her again.
“The informant put the phone in his pocket and can't hear anymore, tried to call but he doesn't answer,” the emergency operator on duty recorded.
Lapland the police department has said after the avalanche accident that the mother and child were returning from a ski hike of several nights towards the Pallastunturi hotel at the time of the avalanche.
They skied along the summer hiking trail of Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. Above Pyhäkuru, the route is marked with wooden posts every 50 meters. According to the police, on Tuesday of last week, visibility was five meters in the area.
From the summer route they took, it is several hundred meters to the steep landslide terrain.
The woman was found dead under an avalanche about eight hours after the emergency call. The search for the boy continued in difficult conditions, and he was found on Thursday of last week.
The places where the woman and the child were found were about 150 meters apart.
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