Half an hour later after the disappearance of a 90-year-old man in Playa Honda, who suffered from Alzheimer's, was made public, a resident of Tías located the elderly man in Puerto del Carmen with symptoms of fatigue. 20 hours had passed since his disappearance and he was dehydrated and disoriented, so he had to be transferred to the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital.
Antonio suffers from Alzheimer's and therefore is always accompanied by a pager that allows him to be located in case he gets lost. However, and according to what Cruz Roja learned, the battery or some other failure prevented knowing where he was this time. Antonio's relatives, after searching for him at night, asked the island's security and emergency services for collaboration first thing in the morning.
Cruz Roja, Local Police, the volunteer groups of Civil Protection of Yaiza and San Bartolomé and even the island's taxi drivers mobilized around the island to search for this elderly man. Later in the morning and given the uncertainty that his father could be helpless somewhere, the son of the missing man asked Cruz Roja to disseminate information about his father through the media. Fortunately, half an hour after launching the warning to the media, Antonio was found in Puerto del Carmen.
The person who found Antonio's whereabouts contacted the family and took him to his home in Playa Honda, where Cruz Roja sent an ambulance to provide him with health care and assess his health status.
