On behalf of the population of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez and the sixth deputy mayor and Councilor for Security and Emergencies, José Carlos Álamo Ojeda, personally congratulated and thanked the firefighters of the Municipal Service this Wednesday. Fire Fighting and Rescue of this municipality for the “valuable help” they provided to those affected by the Valencia floods.
The members of the Maspalomas fire department joined the contingent of Canarian firefighters who traveled in different batches at the beginning of this month of November to the areas affected by Dana to participate and help in the rescue, cleaning and reconstruction work of the enclaves. hardest hit by the flood.
Both Marco Aurelio Pérez and José Carlos Álamo thanked “the personal and professional dedication of solidarity” with which the Maspalomas firefighters faced this initiative of human and professional collaboration that the affected population required so much in the days immediately after the devastating effects of the water and of the mud.
The firefighters from Maspalomas traveled to Valencia in different relief rounds with their colleagues from the Firefighters Consortium of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and other islands, to contribute to the reconstruction, cleaning and recovery of necessary infrastructures that were greatly damaged by the flood.
The equipment that the municipality’s firefighters transported to Valencia included specialized material, among others three bilge pumps, two generator sets and portable lighting spotlights necessary for areas without electricity supply.
The San Bartolomé de Tirajana operatives were entrusted with technical support and protection work for the bailing, drainage, vehicle extraction, energy restoration and structuring of the food bank in the town of Alfafar, in whose devastated streets they poured everything their professional activity in intensive days of up to 16 and 18 hours in a row.
