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In addition, the Municipal Emergency Service and the Civil Protection Volunteer Association will also install a Health Care Post in Alameda de la Constitución, Ambulance and 1st Intervention Vehicles along the processional routes

The Councilman of Emergencies of the City council of Lorca, Juan Miguel Bayonas, and the General Director of Citizen Security and Emergencies of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, José Ramón Carrasco of the Mountain range, have informed this morning that on the occasion of the Holy Week of 2018 the necessary mechanisms have been articulated to guarantee the security, the coordination and the adequate attention of the emergencies that can appear during the development of these celebrations.

Juan Miguel Bayonas explained that "after the coordination meetings of all the services involved in security and emergencies, the" Special Emergency Plan for Holy Week 2018 "has been drafted, with the aim of reinforcing the joint and coordinated control actions, surveillance and intervention in public spaces by all the security and emergency bodies, which will enhance their services especially during the development of the main processional events, in which a large public influx is expected ".

The Councilor for Emergencies added that "the Plan will be activated in the pre-emergency phase a few hours before the celebration of each of the main events, highlighting Friday of Dolores, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Procession of Silence and Good Friday. This will have a deployment of more than 800 people and 130 vehicles distributed at the bases and at strategic points along the processions, as well as in the outskirts of the city .The operation will be integrated by Local Police, Consortium of Extinction of Fires of the Region of Murcia, Red Cross of Lorca, 061 Murciano Health Service, Private Security and Service Aids, National Police Force, Civil Guard, Technical Services of the City Council, Municipal Emergency Service, Civil Protection Volunteers and collaboration of other groups. "

Bayonas has indicated that "the deployment of emergency and security services will be perimeter to the main race." For this, this year, will be split health care in two areas, placing an ambulance Advanced Life Support (SVA) 061 in Plaza de San Vicente with Calle Corredera and another in the Alameda de la Constitución, in addition to the Advanced Health post in Alameda de Cervantes, along with another SVA ambulance, and, like the previous year, on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, establishes the Advanced Emergency Health Care Center in Alameda de Cervantes, next to Santa Paula Oval, a service with capacity to attend 10 patients under observation.The device has a permanent staff of three doctors and four nurses during the Main days of parade.

The Edil de Emergencias has indicated that "the collaboration of human and material resources of Civil Protection of the municipalities of Águilas, Puerto Lumbreras, Totana and Caravaca de la Cruz is maintained." This resource support is composed of approximately 25 volunteers and 2 ambulances of basic life support and first intervention rapid vehicles that will reinforce the special device, in addition, the Municipal Emergency Service and the Civil Protection Volunteer Association will also install a Health Care Post in Alameda de la Constitución, Ambulance and Vehicles of 1st intervention along the processional routes ".

José Ramón Carrasco de la Sierra, meanwhile, said that "as last year, will be incorporated into this Plan the Command Post and Coordination of the General Directorate of Security and Emergency in the Region of Murcia in order to reap , even more, in the coordination, prevention and action of the intervening teams in emergency situations on days when more people are expected, such as Holy Thursday and Good Friday, and the Fire and Rescue Extinction Consortium. of the CARM will have the same means of previous years to face any eventuality that may arise ".

It should be noted that, as in the previous year, the public address system will be installed for emergency and information notices, along the Avenida Juan Carlos I in the box area, placing the amplifiers and microphone in Alameda de the Constitution, in the Emergency Service Center of the Emergency Service-Civil Protection.

If the evacuation of the box area is necessary, the Carriage Plaza in front of the Railway Station, Alameda de la Constitución, parking in front of the old Lorca-Centro Health Center, Plaza de Colón and Plaza will continue to be established as Points of Concentration. of San Vicente.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca