In Haute-Provence, three mushroom pickers rescued in one day

Like their consumption, picking mushrooms is obviously not always without risk.

In the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, firefighters and gendarmes intervened three times this Saturday to provide assistance to mushroom lovers, relates

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In the morning, a 68-year-old woman was helicoptered to Digne hospital after a fall in the Ubaye sector.

Around noon, in the Verdon valley, it was a 46-year-old woman who, injured in an inaccessible place, was in turn evacuated by air.

Finally, as night fell, the emergency services found an 86-year-old man who had gone to look for the mushrooms and whose disappearance had been reported.

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