The Lanzarote Emergency device has moved this Wednesday again to Las Cocinas beach, near Caletón Blanco, in Órzola, to continue the search for the shellfish gatherer who disappeared last Monday while looking for winkles in this area.
The missing person is the neighbor of Guatiza Pepe Acuña, 61 years old, who was at noon last Monday with his wife on Las Cocinas beach. At one point, Acuña went for a walk and pick winkles. After three and a half hours, the woman called the Emergency devices alerting that her husband "usually did not take so long." The man did not take his mobile phone. This past Tuesday morning a relative formalized the complaint at the Civil Guard station.
Since then, a large Emergency device, formed by firefighters from the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium, Emerlan workers, the Civil Guard, several vehicles, jet skis, a GES helicopter and the Helimar of Maritime Rescue have been combing the area in search of this man.
After having to abandon the search during last Tuesday night, from the first hour of the morning the firefighters of the Consortium have returned to join the device. To this is added the GES helicopter that has moved to the area from 8:00 in the morning.