Effective Fire Department rescued early in the morning to a lady who, apparently, after falling in his home, located on the ninth floor of a building on Calle Principe de Asturias, had been struck in head and could not get up, staying locked.
After a warning at 112, around 8 in the morning, this contacted the fire station, whose people have gone immediately to the scene, accessing the interior of the house through the balcony, for which we have served scale of the new car, which reaches 37 meters high.
Once inside, they found on the floor at the woman, who lives alone, with a bleeding wound on his head, so 061 immediately warned that, after giving the first attentions, was taken to Hospital.
According to Fire Department sources, this type of intervention to rescue people who are locked up, mainly elderly and living alone, is quite common.
Only last year made ​​thirty performances, which also included rescue minors.
The advice for the elderly who live alone have on hand is a pager, so that, for any problem or emergency, to alert them immediately to relatives, Social Services or 112.
New interventions in the wind
Firefighters made ​​in Cartagena yesterday six interventions Wednesday due to wind gusts of up to 50 kilometers per hour, which were reached in the city.
The most serious incident occurred about four in the afternoon when one of the palm trees of the Alameda de San Antón was split in half by the wind, fell on two cars that were parked on urban roads.
Except for damage to vehicles, no regrets wounded, according to local troops.
The first intervention was recorded at 09.40 hours in the morning when firefighters had to remove the roof of the Consistory some iron bars to the possible collapse of the road.
All other performances took place in the afternoon session. Thus well recorded in the Alameda de San Antón, firefighters had to go in person to the street Navy Dolores to remove a mat that had been engaged in a power key .
Also, some debris were removed from l Building Forum Honda Street, while in the Gran Vía de La Manga had to resort to the vehicle scale to clean the balcony of a building to the risk that the paneling of the bottom and some bars should fall to the roadway.
The last performance was located on Calle Jorge Juan, about 18.00 pm, when firefighters had to be withdrawn from the broken tiles in the wind, and the strengthening of those who had been displaced.
Firefighters and local police conducted Cartagena last weekend around 50 operations as a result of the wind storm.
The most tragic event occurred on Saturday January 19 when two people were killed in El Beal after the fall of a wall three meters high in the garden of his home.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena