Rescue in the Beaches

More than 3,700 people were attended by health personnel during the past summer in the twenty patrolled beaches of the municipality and 262 others rescued, according to the report of the monitoring plan and Rescue 2008, distributed by the council.

The report notes that the safety device counted this summer with 71 guards and 21 posts for rescue, as well as a focal point, and human and material resources for the movement and transfer of persons.

The report highlights a "significant increase in attendance and rescues" during the summer due to "a greater presence of troops on the beaches", besides the fact that "there has not been victims of drowning," municipal sources indicated.
Four deaths

From June 1 to September 30 were made a total of 3702 healthcare, 262 rescues of people, 66 ships, 209 ambulance transfer and four dead, "all of them for reasons other than the syndrome of immersion, mainly because of heart attack."

The beaches included in the plan are located in the area of the Mar Menor, La Manga, Cabo de Palos, La Azohia and Isla Plana while eight other with the greatest difficulties of access were left out of the device even though "the installation of information boards on unguarded beaches warn of the possibility of calling 112 in case of emergency