The beaches of the municipality of San Javier have a total of 45 professional lifeguards this summer, and five coordinators, who will provide their services every day from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. in a total of 18 monitoring and first aid posts distributed in 14 Beaches of La Manga del Mar Menor and 4 of Santiago de la Ribera.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo presented the local device on beaches this summer, after the Minister of Presidency and Fomento, Pedro Rivera, accompanied by the director general of Security and Emergencies, José Ramón Carrasco, and the Director general of the Mar Menor, Antonio Luengo, to announce the details of the COPLA regional plan, in an event held on the Paseo Colon, in Santiago de la Ribera, where they had the opportunity to greet all the municipal staff before they joined their Positions.
José Miguel Luengo highlighted the effort made by the City of San Javier in human resources and materials to ensure maximum security on the beaches of the municipality that includes the rescue service with a boat "Albufera" that is operational 24 hours a day Throughout the year with four technicians.
The device is completed with ambulance services, SAMU which has two Basic Life Support units with emergency medical technicians, one in San Javier and another in La Manga, and 6 operators who manage the notices to 112 and coordinate the communications Between the different services of the Civil Protection Unit of San Javier.
The service has two quads for rescue, for quick interventions on beaches, two water scooters with special equipment for rescue in the water, a support vehicle with five seats, a scooter for quick interventions endowed with oxygen therapy and DESA, and the boat rescue.
The 18 surveillance and rescue posts on beaches have defibrillators and oxygen therapy, as well as an amphibious chair to facilitate the bathing of people with mobility problems.
The 18 posts are distributed on the beaches, Castillico, Colón Sur, Colón Norte and Barnuevo, in Santiago de la Ribera.
In La Manga the beaches guarded on the Mediterranean slope are Banco del Tabal Norte and Sur;
Pedrucho North and South;
North and South Arenal;
Estacio Norte and Sur, and Ensenada Esparto North, Center and South.
On the slopes of the Mar Menor, Veneciola, Mistral and Pedruchillo.
Prior to the presentation of the device on beaches in the municipality of San Javier, the Minister of Presidency and Promotion, Pedro Rivera, accompanied by the general director of Citizen Security and Emergencies, José Ramón Carrasco presented the operation of Plan Copla 2017, which coordinates the Surveillance and rescue services of the eight coastal municipalities.
The Copla 2017 Plan totals 125 surveillance posts spread over 74 beaches, two more than last year, attended by 252 people, with 12 rescue boats, 12 water scooters, 24 lifeboats, seven quads, a scooter, Three ambulances and two off-road vehicles.
There are also 26 chairs adapted for access from the beach to the water for people with disabilities.
The Ministry of Presidency subsidizes the town councils with 603,756 euros.
The connoisseur offered Copla Plan data during the past year when a total of 59,075 performances were made, of which 35,890 were social care, such as consultations, help for the disabled or lost persons, 22,426 were wound cures and 745 rescues, of Which 367 were of people and the rest of boats and floating elements.
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At the end of the presentation, the rescuers of San Javier carried out a mock rescue of a boat with two people burned in front of the beach of Colón, in which the first-aiders of the monitoring station were mobilized, as well as the rescue boat for Contain a fire, and a watercraft that has moved the castaways to the shore where they have been taken care of by the lifeguards, while the rescue boat chokes the fire and towed the boat to the nearest port.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier