Following the death of a swimmer this Sunday at La Cantería Beach in Órzola, a reader has contacted La Voz to criticize the absence of lifeguards on that beach and to question the distribution of emergency resources in the municipality of Haría. "We hope that this deceased person is the last and that the City Council puts the rescue service where it is needed, and not only where it looks good for people to see," he says, stressing that La Cantería is a particularly dangerous area for swimming.
In this regard, this reader assures that a week ago he was on that same beach, marked with signs as "dangerous beach", and that in three hours they had to rescue four people from the sea. "The current was already taking them away," he says, noting that he personally collaborated in two of those rescues along with other bathers. "On that beach, which is known for its danger, where there were even children bathing near the shore, there was not and is currently no lifeguard," he denounces.
In addition, he considers it "even more serious" that "just 3 kilometers away, in Caleton Blanco, where no matter how much you get into the water, it does not exceed your waist and is always calm, there was a boy from R.E.N. (Rescue and Emergencies of the North) at the entrance, informing users that they could not enter".
"Do they really pay this rescue service to act as parking attendants, while there is no one on the dangerous beaches?", this resident asks. And he asks the same about Arrieta beach, where there is also a lifeguard service. "All I've seen them do is walk the beach from one side to the other, since that beach is quiet, reasonably so," he adds.
Faced with that, he insists that the last day he was at La Canteria Beach, if it had not been for the intervention of the people who were there, "there would have been four drowned people." In addition, he criticizes that stones have been placed to prevent cars from accessing the plain next to the beach that was used as a parking lot. "What is achieved with that? That emergency services cannot access? That free access is blocked? That other beaches are overcrowded?", he questions.
