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Date Published: 04/07/2022

ARCHIVED - Lorca launches summer coastal safety campaign

The Surveillance, Rescue and Salvage Plan will be in place in Lorca until the end of August

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Lorca launches summer coastal safety campaign

As the summer season kicks off, Lorca has launched its annual surveillance and rescue system, officially known as the Copla Plan, to ensure the safety of beach goers.

The Mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, presented the security device on Monday morning, July 4. The plan, which includes positioning life-saving semi-automatic defibrillators at strategic points along the municipality’s coastline and the Coy river beach, will remain in place until August 31.

According to Mr Mateos, “this emergency prevention and intervention device is made up of personnel from the Municipal Emergency Service” including a beach rescue coordinator and 10 lifeguards and will be operational seven days a week between the hours of 11.30am and 7.30pm along the coast; the surveillance system will run from 1pm to 7pm at the Coy river.

The Copla Plan involves several different elements: a First Aid station has been set up at Puntas de Calnegre beach and the Surveillance and Rescue team of lifeguards will monitor the waters with the help of an inflatable boat, a jet ski, a Quad-ATV and an amphibious chair for disabled beachgoers.

All this is in addition to the Basic Life Support Ambulance from the Murcian Health Service, as well as the 4x4 vehicle equipped with rescue equipment and forest firefighting equipment that are in place in Lorca every summer.

In Calnegre cove, a First Aid, Surveillance and Rescue Post has been established in the centre of the beach, made up of three professional lifeguards, a watchtower with an assistance module and another disabled amphibious chair, while the river beach of Coy has been provided with a lifeguard and a vehicle.

The mayor added that “we will also have dynamic terrestrial surveillance with a lifeguard and a quad-ATV that will travel along the Puntas de Calnegre-Parazuelos beach, as well as maritime surveillance with a lifeguard who will travel, by jet ski, our coast as far as the limits with the municipalities of Águilas and Mazarrón.”

Last summer, the Copla Plan operating on the coast and river beach attended to 153 incidents, of which 20 were reported on the Puntas de Calnegre beach, 117 in Calnegre cove and 16 at the Coy river.

Image: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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