This video shows the heavy snowfalls that firefighters are having to contend with as they race against time to try and find a missing 69-year-old woman.

She vanished from her home in the hamlet of Pezzano, in the municipality of Montecopiolo in the Italian province of Rimini, and the search is continuing as heavy snowfalls blanket the area.

Teams from the Rimini and Forlì-Cesena Headquarters, expert topographers, drone pilots and experts in driving snow ploughs are working on the rescue plan.