The Fire station of Güímar Valley will be in operation next fall, if the provisions of the Council. As the period of public exposure of the project prepared for its completion is about to end, the island government hopes to have the remaining works awarded before March, taking into account that it is processed by the emergency route. The term of completion of the works is six months.
The insular director of Security, Rubén Fernández, is optimistic and highlights the budget increase of almost 300,000 euros experienced by this project, which approximates its cost to 800,000. The causes are the improvements introduced in the update of the project carried out as a result of the work stoppage, as a result of the declaration of the bankruptcy by the company that started it.
Fernández recalls that this park will have 20 firefighters, at the rate of four personnel for each of the five shifts, and that these personnel will begin their training process next month. It should be noted that the Cabildo has already acquired the equipment, which includes four autoscale, pump, light and rescue trucks.
The one in Güímar, located in a warehouse in the Industrial Park, will be the first of the three new fire stations that the south of the island will have. The second one, that of Arona, will have its project drawn up this year. The announcement of the insular director of Security is based on the imminent signing with the City Council of the concession agreement of the 5,000 square meters of land agreed for its construction, located on Las Madrigueras street (Los Cristianos). An area that today houses the municipal Civil Protection facilities, which will be integrated into the complex occupying around a thousand square meters.
The agreement will also grant the Cabildo the power to commission an infrastructure project whose construction will require an investment estimated at more than one million euros. Its endowment will be similar to that of the Güímar Fire Station, both in personnel and equipment.
The same will happen in the third new fire station in the South, the one in Guía de Isora. The insular director of Security, Rubén Fernández, explains that its location is yet to be determined since the possibility of using land from the area of influence of the Insular Ring of Roads – in the vicinity of the Vera de Erques junction – is being considered for its construction or use an existing building, provisionally or definitively. Among the options valued so far was the partial use of the Coagisora Cooperative, in Tejina de Isora.
The only professional fire station in use in the South is located in Las Chafiras (San Miguel de Abona).
