The mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, and the president of the Association for the Development of Emergency Actions (ADAE), Francisco Javier Cabrera, accompanied by the Councilor for the Security area, Francisco Marichal, signed the agreement that will allow the municipality to count with fifty volunteers from Civil Protection.
Civil Protection has been fundamental in this period of covid-19. Its troops support the Local Police, distribute food to vulnerable people or whose age and mobility problems did not allow them to go to supermarkets; They support the efforts of the educational community, carried out information rounds on prevention measures and confinement and participate in the control of capacity, among other tasks.
With this agreement to provide a service that began in Arona in 1999, attention to services such as the requirements that 112 makes in the municipality, information and prevention campaigns in situations of alert, support and collaboration in emergencies, evacuations and supply or response in situations of risk or seriousness.
The mayor of Arona highlights “the need to guarantee the response to emergencies. Both currently and at times such as the collapse of the Los Cristianos building we have been able to verify the efficiency and work carried out by the Civil Protection officers, key to the State security forces and bodies, as well as the Local Police. It is clear that security, with the priority placed on health security, is being one of the strategic bets of the current mandate.
The councilor of the area, Francisco Marichal, emphasizes that «the work of Civil Protection has been immeasurable from the beginning, but we are in a time in which it has been subjected to an intense test, with its work in the face of a pandemic like this, in the one that volunteers have been key for many people, especially the most vulnerable.
