Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez and Councillor for Security, José Carlos Álamo, present the installation of the first 4 in El Inglés, Las Burras and Maspalomas. There will be twelve in total. The remaining eight are in the final phase of bidding and about to be awarded.
The San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council has begun the renovation of the surveillance and rescue posts on the municipality's beaches to offer a better and greater service to its users in better and greater conditions for the lifeguards. This Thursday, the mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez and the Councillor for Security and Emergencies, José Carlos Álamo Ojeda, presented the first four towers in Playa del Inglés.
Funded by the City Council at a cost of €95.765, these have been installed in Las Burras cove, two in Playa del Inglés and another in Playa de Maspalomas. They are easy to transport and completely modular for better adaptation to the sandy terrain. Their manufacture in polyester laminate reinforced with fibreglass makes them more resistant to changes in temperature and marine salinity.
The design also features large windows with sun filters to allow for greater visibility; its environmental friendliness by allowing the sand to freely circulate; and its prominent yellow colour to be recognisable by bathers at all times. In addition, the interior is prepared to house communication and surveillance equipment and has storage chests for additional equipment. The towers will now be labelled and numbered so that beach users can use them as reference points from anywhere on the beach.
The Councillor for Security, José Carlos Álamo, assessed “with great personal satisfaction” the presentation of these four new towers “after more than four years without any type of investment in this important service that already required it”. For his part, the Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez highlighted that after this first renovation action, the imminent awarding of another eight surveillance and rescue towers is planned, which will be funded through the Cooperation Plan with the Cabildo.
“There will be twelve surveillance posts in total, and all of them are known for being very environmentally friendly. We have the guarantee that they are working correctly because they have already been tested on similar beaches such as those in Fuerteventura. What we aim to do is to guarantee the safety of bathers and users of our beaches, and also to improve the conditions in which lifeguards provide their services,” he said.
