The general director of Citizen Security and Emergencies, José Ramón Carrasco, and the mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez, today presented the troops deployed on the beaches of Mazarrón, with 14 posts, four surveillance chairs, 32 lifeguards, four patrons of boat, four water bikes and 16 pirogues, in addition to the rescue boat 'Poniente', of the Red Cross, anchored in the port dock, a semi-rigid boat served by a skipper and two lifeguards.
This weekend begins the period of high danger on the beaches of the coast of the Region of Murcia, which involves the activation of a first aid, surveillance and rescue device in line with the influx of visitors, which launches the Autonomous Community in collaboration with coastal town councils and organizations such as the Red Cross and Maritime Rescue.
The interventions carried out last year under the Copla Plan were almost 54,000, of which just over 17,000 were cures and first aid, and more than 700 rescue and rescue.
In Mazarrón 5,000 interventions were recorded, of which 4,600 were cures and first aid and a hundred rescue and rescue.
Source: CARM