SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The emergency services have resumed this morning the search device by land, sea and air of the two bathers who disappeared since last Friday on the coast of El Hierro, one of them a minor, as reported by the Emergency Coordination Center and Security (Cecoes) 1-1-2.
A helicopter from the Canary Islands Government’s Emergency and Rescue Group (GES), two Maritime Rescue vessels, personnel from the Cabildo’s Emergency Intervention Group and the Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard are intervening in the device. .
The first alert occurred on Friday around 11.50 am, when the 1-1-2 operating room received a notice from the GES helicopter base in El Hierro informing that several people had come to ask for help because a minor had disappeared in the sea in the Charco de los Sargos, in Frontera.
Once the emergency resources necessary to intervene in the area were activated, the GES helicopter, personnel from Cecopin and the Cabildo Emergency Intervention Group, a boat and the Helimer of Maritime Rescue, Civil Guard and an ambulance of the SUC.
At the same time that the missing minor was being searched, at around 3:45 p.m. the 1-1-2 operating room received another alert informing of a person in distress at sea in Charco Manso, in the Echedo area, in Valverde, for what part of the emergency resources already activated came to the place.
The Civil Guard confirmed that in the end there were two people in distress at sea, although one of them managed to get out on his own. This is a 51-year-old man who was assisted by SUC health personnel when he suffered incomplete drowning and presented multiple moderate erosions, for which he was taken by ambulance to the Ntra. Sra. De los Reyes Hospital.
The search continued throughout yesterday without success by the GES helicopter, Local Police, Maritime Rescue, Anaga Emergency Aid (AEA), Civil Protection, the Cabildo Emergency Intervention Group and divers from the Civil Guard, and it resumed this morning.
