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The mountain rescuer is the professionally qualifi ed person capable of undertaking preventive patrol activities,
of insuring permanence in the Salvamont bases, outposts, or refuges, of searching for the missing persons, of
delivering fi rst aid in case of injury, and of transporting the injured or the sick until they are taken by the ambulance/
SMURD/helicopter to the nearest medical unit.
The mountain rescuer teams are formed by hired personnel and volunteers, all having the same level of
professional training.
In Romania, the mountain rescuer profession is regulated by the Law no. 200/2004
and by the OUG no. 109/2007, coded as COR 541904, and it is placed among the
professions for which the length of the higher education study cycle is less than 3
years.
The mountain rescuer profession presupposes assumed risks, good sports
abilities, good physical and psychological training, a good orientation in the
fi eld, fi rst aid knowledge, the ability to observe, analyze, and take decisions,
good interpersonal skills, the ability to work in a team, for long and
unpredictable hours, and in diffi cult conditions: stress, darkness, extreme
weather conditions, high psychological load, microbiologically infested
environments, permanent risk, etc.
Being such a diffi cult, tough, and dangerous activity, one would
naturally ask: why become a mountain rescuer? Why did we choose
this profession?

The answers can be many, more or less relevant, but the closest
to the truth is the one that describes the spiritual fulfi lment
provided by that fraction of a dramatic second
in which you realize you just saved
someone’s life. The life of that
person, for one moment,
was just in yours and
your team mates
hands.