SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 12 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has organized an act of gratitude and public recognition for the workers in the Highways area who worked on cleaning the roads and maintaining the infrastructures of La Palma affected by the eruptive process that began on September 19 and continued until December.
In the Noble Hall of the Island Corporation, the president, Pedro Martín; the first vice-president and councilor of Highways, Enrique Arriaga, and the insular director, Tomás Félix García, held a meeting with this group of 85 people who, voluntarily, and on several occasions served on the island of La Palma while they remained he activates the eruption.
Pedro Martín conveyed the gratitude of all citizens “for the much-needed work they have done on La Palma, but also for the very important work they do every day on the roads of our island, a job that is anonymous but that today we have the opportunity to reflect in this act of recognition, thanks to which safety on the roads is guaranteed, and therefore, people’s lives”.
“In La Palma I was able to observe them in person solving problems, attending to the population and getting involved with the affected neighbors, a job that was carried out voluntarily and that today has a well-deserved thanks, which has also been transferred to us by the president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Mariano Zapata, who would have liked to be with us today,” he added.
For his part, Enrique Arriaga applauded the work they carried out during the three months that this service was provided and stated that he was sure that he was also speaking on behalf of the palmeros when he thanked them for these cleaning tasks that, on many days, led them to double shifts. .
Arriaga added that “on more than one occasion they called me from public institutions in Palmeras to thank them for the work they were doing, but I also received calls and messages from anonymous people who recognized the great work that those men dressed in yellow did, with their faces smudged by ash, tirelessly removing the ash that accumulated by tons in the gutters and on the pavement”.
For his part, the island director of Highways, Tomás Félix García, assured that he was proud of the work carried out and the service provided to the people of La Palma and stated that it was an honor to have colleagues like them
The Cabildo de Tenerife kept ten vehicles on La Palma permanently, from the start of the eruption until the end of December, including multifit trucks with their corresponding tubs for loading material, three mini-shovels with a sweeper, a truck cab with signaling and manual tools, a high-capacity sweeper-vacuum truck, a pickup truck with a trailer and an off-road vehicle, in addition to the aforementioned crews made up of thirteen workers to clean roads that were relieved weekly.
