Last weekend, the first six surveillance and rescue posts were launched on the beaches of the municipality of Cartagena, which this year presents as a novelty the professionalization of all its staff.
To this end, the City of Cartagena through the area of ​​Finance, Security and Interior, directed by Francisco Aznar, has contracted all services through the company AMBUMAR SYA, whose offer of 743 thousand euros was selected as the most advantageous All presented, with a drop of about 100 thousand euros over the initial rate.
Of that amount about 120 thousand euros will be contributed by the Regional COPLA Plan.
So far about 30 percent of the participants were professionals, covering the remaining 70 percent with Civil Protection volunteers who received diets.
This year 100% of the participants will be contracted
The six posts they opened last weekend were the Galúa and Zeus in La Manga;
Los Nietos and Islas Menores Rise in the Mar Menor;
Cala Cortina in Cartagena and La Azohía in San Ginés.
During this first weekend of activity, rescue boats were also ready in the Mediterranean Sea, Mar Menor and La Azohía.
The next weekend, they will reopen those six posts and from Saturday, June 17, they will open until mid September all posts in the Manga, except Monte Blanco;
Los Nietos and Islas Menores Levante;
Cala Cortina;
The Portús and the Azohía (San Gines)
Also will start on June 17 the sanitary means, composed of an ambulance in La Manga and vehicles for rapid intervention with nurse in Mar Menor and La Azohía.
The rest of the posts until the 24, located mainly in the Mar Menor, will open daily in high season, the months of July and August.
DEFIBRILLATORS IN ALL POSTS
Another improvement will be that all positions will have an automatic defibrillator, so that the beaches will be cardioprotected and will allow a quick action of the rescuers, who have the necessary training for their use.
There will also be three new construction posts to replace other deteriorated ones such as Galúa, Sirenas and Levante.
La Manga surveillance towers have also been upgraded to provide greater height and stability.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena