Arrecife Civil Protection now has five complete diving teams, in addition to five more divers, totaling 40 volunteers. The service coordinator, Juan Carlos Páez, presented the new equipment this Monday and explained that the acquisition was proposed after the tragic death of Dylan, the five-year-old boy who died in Puerto Naos after his mother fell into the water with the car they were traveling in.
On the night of this accident, Civil Protection received a call "in search of divers who could rescue the child." The emergency services arrived without diving equipment at first, and a sports professional had to jump into the water to get the child out, although he was already dead.
After this tragedy, Páez set himself "as a priority objective to have a team of divers in the service who could deal with this type of situation." Thus, this new equipment, which has been acquired for Civil Protection by the Social Work of Caja Canarias and by the Security Consortium and Emergencies of Lanzarote, has been presented this Monday.
In the presentation of this equipment, in addition to the coordinator of Civil Protection of Arrecife, the director of Caja Canarias, Javier Hidalgo, the manager of the Security and Emergency Consortium, Esteban García, and the Councilor for Security and Emergencies of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Francisco Guzmán Rodríguez Reyes, as well as the mayor of Arrecife, Cándido Reguera, were present.
For his part, Reguera thanked the collaboration of the rest of the organizations with the Arrecife City Council and stated that he hopes that "this will not be the only collaboration" between the three organizations.