https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Austrian troops airlifted a group of German students stranded at a snowbound ski resort on Friday, as emergency services scrambled to clear record snowfall across large parts of the country. https://www.thelocal.at/20190112/austria-army-rescues-snowbound-german-students Sat, 12 Jan 2019 09:48:26 +0100 austria-army-rescues-snowbound-german-students The Hungarian captain of a tanker loaded with almost 300 tonnes of diesel fuel which ran aground in the Danube river at Langenzersdorf near Vienna was reportedly drunk in charge of the vessel, according to a report in the Kurier newspaper. https://www.thelocal.at/20170207/diesel-tanker-salvaged-from-danube-after-it-ran-aground Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:42:13 +0100 diesel-tanker-salvaged-from-danube-after-it-ran-aground A herd of horses and ponies were involved in a "Great Escape" which saw a highway near the small town of Rutzenmoos in Upper Austria being blocked in the early hours of Wednesday morning. https://www.thelocal.at/20161228/horses-and-ponies-block-highway-in-upper-austria Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:20:25 +0100 horses-and-ponies-block-highway-in-upper-austria A hiker trapped in the Austrian mountains was rescued after sending an SOS to the American makers of a GPS device who then sent it back around the world to the local mountain rescue team. https://www.thelocal.at/20160808/hiker-in-austria-rescued-after-sending-sos-to-america Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:26:55 +0200 hiker-in-austria-rescued-after-sending-sos-to-america A group of 60 tourists were forced to call emergency services after they were abandoned on the side of an Austrian mountain by their drunken guide. https://www.thelocal.at/20160613/drunk-guide-bails-on-60-hikers-in-the-austrian-mountains Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:50:44 +0200 drunk-guide-bails-on-60-hikers-in-the-austrian-mountains Residents of a small town in Austria could soon have their very own local superhero after someone claiming to be Batman wrote to the mayor to announce he is ready to take “action”. https://www.thelocal.at/20160530/batman-takes-on-corrupt-bureaucrats-in-small-austrian-town-bad-ischl Mon, 30 May 2016 12:03:19 +0200 batman-takes-on-corrupt-bureaucrats-in-small-austrian-town-bad-ischl A young soldier in Austria has been hailed a hero after breaking down a door to a burning building and rescuing an 87-year-old woman trapped inside. https://www.thelocal.at/20160511/hero-soldier-rescues-oap-from-burning-building Wed, 11 May 2016 12:16:59 +0200 hero-soldier-rescues-oap-from-burning-building Three cross country skiers from Vienna had to be rescued from the Dachstein mountain in Upper Austria on Sunday, after getting lost in a blizzard. The skiers made a snow cave to shelter in until the rescue team arrived. https://www.thelocal.at/20150209/lost-skiers-in-dramatic-dachstein-rescue Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:07:42 +0100 lost-skiers-in-dramatic-dachstein-rescue A two-year-old boy locked himself in a car in sub-zero temperatures for more than an hour on Sunday night. https://www.thelocal.at/20150107/two-year-old-trapped-in-ice-cold-car Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:06:00 +0100 two-year-old-trapped-in-ice-cold-car Rescuers in Spain on Monday found the body of an Austrian woman who went missing while hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains, police said. https://www.thelocal.at/20141230/austrian-climbers-body-found-in-spanish-mountains Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:02:00 +0100 austrian-climbers-body-found-in-spanish-mountains An Austrian hiker who went missing in a forest in New Zealand after being separated from the group he was with has been rescued via helicopter after being spotted in a valley on Friday. https://www.thelocal.at/20141220/missing-austrian-hiker-rescued-by-copter Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:11:00 +0100 missing-austrian-hiker-rescued-by-copter Austrian rescue workers have recovered from a cave the skeleton of a skier who is thought to have fallen to his death in the Alps decades ago, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20141112/body-of-decades-old-skier-found-in-cave Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:00 +0100 body-of-decades-old-skier-found-in-cave A 47-year-old German man had a fatal accident during a mountain hike in the Lech Valley Alps on Wednesday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.at/20140911/deadly-fall-in-the-lech-valley Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:10:00 +0200 deadly-fall-in-the-lech-valley According to a report in Computerwelt, the Austrian Mobile Communications Forum announced that between January and June of 2014, there was a total of 1,746,785 emergency calls made via the mobile cell network, meaning around 9,704 calls per day. https://www.thelocal.at/20140903/17-million-emergency-calls-in-first-half-of-2014 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:43:02 +0200 17-million-emergency-calls-in-first-half-of-2014 In the early hours of Saturday morning, mountain and cave rescue teams announced that they had successfully rescued injured Polish explorer Marek G., who was seriously injured as the result of a fall while exploring a deep cave. https://www.thelocal.at/20140816/injured-polish-caver-rescued-from-tennen-mountain Sat, 16 Aug 2014 18:15:00 +0200 injured-polish-caver-rescued-from-tennen-mountain According to a report in the news daily Kronen Zeitung, a hiker from Salzburg was seriously injured after being attacked by a mountain goat. https://www.thelocal.at/20140804/man-seriously-injured-by-mountain-goat Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:37:00 +0200 man-seriously-injured-by-mountain-goat