SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands, Pedro Martín, offered this Wednesday “any means” at the disposal of the insular institution to help those affected and institutions on the island of La Palma.
Martín has traveled to La Palma to meet with his Palmero counterpart, Mariano Hernández Zapata, with the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, the Government delegate, Anselmo Pestana, and with the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska.
He also wanted to closely follow the work of the scientists of the entity dependent on the island institution – about fifty displaced people – as well as the members of the Tenerife Firefighters Consortium there.
Thus, it offered “the bioclimatic homes available to the Cabildo, through the Technological Institute of Renewable Energies (ITER), as well as any other means of the Cabildo of Tenerife that may be needed in this emergency”.
He recalled that some “150 places have also been made available to house pets on the island, or goats, sheep or those domestic animals that need to be accommodated.”
Martín also advanced that they are “trying to channel the large volume of solidarity” that they are “receiving from the Tenerife population”: “We will do this through the more than 500 entities that are part of the Tenerife Isla Solidaria program, managed by Sinpromi, and through the Red Cross of La Palma “, he pointed out.
The president was accompanied by the insular director of Security and Emergencies of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rubén Fernández, as well as by the manager and chief officer of the Tenerife Firefighters Consortium, José Laureano Vargas and Florencio López Ruano, respectively.