SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The search device deployed to locate a young man who disappeared at sea on the coast of Las Gaviotas, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, continues to intervene by land, sea and air in search work on the coast, as reported by the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (Cecoes) 1-1-2.
The event occurred shortly before 12:00 p.m., when the 1-1-2 operational room received an alert that lifeguards from the Beach service of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council (carried out by the Red Cross) were coming to the aid of a group of young people at sea.
The lifeguards verified that three young people had hit the rocks and two of them had gotten out of the water by their own means, without locating the third, so Cecoes immediately activated the necessary emergency resources to intervene in the area.
A rescue helicopter from the Canary Islands Government Emergency and Rescue Group (GES), a Helimer helicopter and a Salvamar boat from Maritime Rescue, a boat and the Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard, Local Police, National Police, Civil Protection and a SUC medicalized ambulance traveled to the place.
After providing initial assistance to the two young people who managed to get out of the water, a sanitary ambulance from the Red Cross and the Local Police transferred the two affected to the Anaga Health Center. From there, one of them, after being stabilized, was evacuated in the same ambulance to the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria Hospital with symptoms of near drowning.
