The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, will on Friday 22 January at Cartagena firemen, members of the NGO Action Fire, who will travel to Haiti to help relief work being carried out in devastated Haiti .
The visit will take place at the office of mayor at 10, 30 hours and then at 10.45 hours, report in press conference at the Press Room of the Town Hall on the device has started and the journey will perform.
In the meeting with the media will be present Juan Antonio Martínez Catalán, president of Firefighters in Action, and Juan Luis Martínez Rivera, coordinator of the Emergency Intervention Brigade of the NGO.
DEVELOPMENT AID DEPLOYMENT
The Fire Force Action is ready, and today, travelers heading to Haiti three members of the NGO, as well as a medical and health, working in the hospitals that Red Cross has already established there.
To these are added on Monday, January 25 further six volunteers, two and four Fire ATS NGO, with another hospital, emergency kit with medical supplies and a water treatment plant installed in Port au Prince.
The operational coordination of Fire in Action has been conducted jointly with the Spanish Red Cross in the Dominican Republic, as well as firefighters in this country, with whom they had contact in the Hurricane Yean in 2004.
Also important was the collaboration of the Spanish Cooperation Agency, which has been in facilitating the transport of members of the NGO, as well as performing Iberia free transport equipment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena