At around 15:14 p.m., the Emergency and Security Coordinating Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert reporting an accident at the construction site of the Hotel Puerto Azul, Puerto Rico, Mogán, with two seriously affected. 1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources.
Given the seriousness of the incident, the coordinating doctor on duty in the 1-1-2 operating room activated from the first moment the SUC medical helicopter that landed on the Amadores helipad.
A male, about 40 years old, whose SUC ground resources personnel confirmed his death upon arriving at the scene of the incident, and the other affected person, whose age is unknown, who at the initial time of assistance presented multiple traumas of a nature. serious, he was assisted and stabilized by SUC personnel and transferred by medical ambulance to the Amadores helipad, where the SUC medical helicopter took charge of his evacuation to the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
As a result of the accident, the two victims were trapped in rubble, so they were freed by firefighters from the Gran Canaria Emergency Consortium and Civil Protection personnel who also secured the helisurface area for the safe takeover of the helicopter.
Police services from the Local Police and the Civil Guard took charge of the corresponding procedures.