SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Security and Emergencies area of the Cabildo de La Palma continues to work and reinforce the protection, surveillance and information measures in the surroundings of the cone of the volcano, in order to continue improving the security of people in access to this area and the attention To visitors.
Nieves Rosa Arroyo, Minister of Security and Emergency, has highlighted that the priority of the Cabildo has been focused throughout the volcanic emergency on the care and protection of people, with a series of measures that have been adapted in the different phases of this enormously complex process.
In this sense, he stressed that a new batch of ‘informer guards’ has been incorporated, who will continue to cover the 6 positions established to guarantee the safety of visitors, as well as provide active surveillance that allows people who approach the exclusion zone, on the conditions in which it must be done in case of having express authorization.
In the same way, they are in charge of informing the Security Forces and Bodies in case of detecting infractions and providing tourism with options to be able to enjoy the visit in the different most suitable points to observe the volcano and its surroundings in a safe way, which that entails an increase in the quality of the visit to the island for tourism.
Arroyo stressed that the work of the camouflage crews continues, whose main task is to erase the traces of those people who have crossed the limits of the exclusion zone, which contributes to the maintenance and preservation of these new sensitive environments left by the eruption. , from the landscape point of view.
Likewise, two small samples of the lapilli stratigraphy (picón, granzón or jable as it is also known on the island) have been conditioned at the Mirador de El Jable, using a resin fixation technique, in collaboration with the Heritage Area of the Cabildo de La Palma and with the advice of the Geological Heritage Area of the IGME, thus making it possible to have a new tourist interpretation point on the volcanic process that occurred on the island in 2021 in this place of high landscape value.
The guided routes to the environment of the volcano through the path enabled in the Llano del Jable continue in collaboration between the Cabildo de La Palma, the El Paso City Council and tourist companies on the island, with small groups (14 people maximum), accompanied by expressly authorized guides for this activity and that allows responding to the need of the tourism sector to meet the existing demand in relation to the eruptive process.
Two days a week this activity is carried out free of charge for the local population of the island, which allows a special approach to what happened in the Aridane Valley. These visits are carried out under strict express authorization to guarantee security measures, with special attention to the measurement of gases in the environment by the volcano’s informant vigilantes.
