The council of Xàbia beaches, through the Red Cross, has presented a balance of the prevention, surveillance and rescue service on the beaches that began at Easter and for the first time has been extended daily until after the Pilar bridge.
A device made up of 50 troops, distributed on the beaches of La Grava, Benissero, Arenal, Portitxol and granadella and that it has also had two rescue boats, a rescue motorcycle, as well as two ambulances and a rapid intervention vehicle fixed on the beach.
The main figures for this season are those related to health care, with 4.485 services and rescues: 157 among swimmers in trouble and, above all, crew members of kayaks and boats in distress. And it is that, as the coordinators of the lifeguard team emphasize, this summer they have faced a "very active" season in which there have been numerous rescue interventions, especially in unguarded areas, highlighting the Llop Marí fishery and the Caló cove .
The lifeguards have treated injured by accidents due to falls, slips and jumps from the rocks, as well as practitioners of nautical sports, with the assistance to inexperienced kayakers being highlighted.
In the maritime field, the Red Cross has also provided assistance to vessels at risk of sinking, carrying out evacuations with vessels, as well as collaborating with Maritime Rescue in towing tasks in minor incidents.
Other data that summer leaves on the beaches is that of lost people, 19 between minors and elderly and the 110 interventions with ambulances, of which 68 have resulted in transfer to a hospital. Regarding the accessible point for assisted bathing in Arenal, 192 services have been provided.
The season that is now ending has also included a special response plan in accordance with the sanitary measures produced by the current pandemic that has been applied without notable incidents.
Remember that the beach team has joined the summer response device deployed by the Red Cross to respond to emergencies in Xàbia and to reinforce and support health and rescue needs in a few months of high occupancy.
Councilman Beaches, Tony Miragall, has congratulated the Red Cross team for the "professional and human" response offered in what has been a complicated season and with a large influx of users both on the beaches and throughout the coastline. The mayor has highlighted the great vocation for improvement that the team has, in continuous training and always up to date with the day to day to detect new needs and propose improvements to the service.
In this sense, professionals have emphasized the change experienced with the increase in new sports and recreational activities in unguarded areas of the orography, which has led them to specialize in aquatic rescue in rocky and difficult-to-access areas such as cliffs. of Xàbia.
The Red Cross also wanted to thank the team of professionals who have made possible the successful development of the service and the people who visit our beaches every day and collaborate by complying with prevention measures, exercising the best example; as well as the good disposition and proximity of all the health and emergency bodies.
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