HGSS marks 75 years of operation

The Croatian Mountain Rescue Service (HGSS) celebrated 75 years of operation on Saturday with a special commemoration at the Lisinski music hall in Zagreb. 

The head of the HGSS, Marko Andrić, said that throughout the decades, "the challenges may have changed, but the readiness to help all those in need has always remained the same".

"Our team was there during the Zagreb floods in 1964, the earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969, in the Homeland War, the floods in 2014, and following the earthquakes in Zagreb and Petrinja in 2020 and 2021. In all those situations, the HGSS proved that we can always be relied upon, without compromise," he said.

According to their website, "the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service is a national, voluntary, professional, humanitarian and non-partisan association working in the public interest. It is dedicated to preventing accidents, and providing rescue and first aid services in mountains and other hardly accessible or inaccessible areas as well as in extraordinary circumstances which require special know-how and equipment for preserving human, material and environmental resources".