The Government of the Canary Islands has offered the communities affected by the DANA in the southeastern peninsula a contingent of 63 firefighters from the island consortia of Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, as well as the Eirif, a rescue helicopter and several drone units to support search and assistance tasks.
In a statement, the Canarian Executive has detailed that the availability of this device has already been communicated this Wednesday to the National Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Emergencies of the Ministry of the Interior, from which all the aid provided by the different communities is coordinated.
Along these lines, the regional Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, Manuel Miranda, stressed that the general director of Emergencies of the Government contacted the "colleagues in the affected areas" to offer all the support of the community, and that he himself contacted the general director of Civil Protection of the Interior, Virginia Barcones, to make himself available to her.
The Minister wanted to express "the solidarity of the Government of the Canary Islands with all those affected by this great tragedy and the recognition of the work that the emergency services are carrying out in such difficult times as these".
From the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands, one of its rescue helicopters is made available to the affected regions together with two rescuers, a crane operator, a pilot and a co-pilot.
This aircraft, the Canarian Government has indicated, has a capacity for twelve people and has a maximum arrival time of 72 hours.
To this deployment would be added several drone teams belonging to the fire consortia of Tenerife and Lanzarote and to the General Directorate of Emergencies itself.
The planned device also contemplates the possibility of deploying 63 troops, 30 of them from the Forest Fire Intervention and Reinforcement Teams (EIRIF) of the autonomous Executive, and 33 firefighters, twelve of them assigned by the Emergency Consortium of Gran Canaria, seventeen by that of Tenerife and four by Lanzarote.
These troops would perform search, rescue and land and underwater salvage functions, concluded the note sent by the autonomous Executive.
