Gone to pick mushrooms, they come back… by helicopter

They were too tired to walk home.

Three men aged between 75 and 80 were rescued by firefighters on Wednesday after getting lost in the woods looking for mushrooms.

They were in the national forest of Sapet in Treschenu-Creyers, in Drôme, when the alert was given;

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Twelve firefighters, including specialists in mountain interventions, went to the site to recover the walkers;

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The three retirees and the rescuers set out to climb through the woods to find their way back.

Lifted up and dropped off on safer ground

But the mushroom pickers being exhausted, the firefighters had to resort to calling in a Civil Security helicopter.

The trio was airlifted and deposited safe and sound in a less steep area.

The operation mobilized rescuers until 7 p.m.

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• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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• Firefighters

• Helicopter