Salou successfully performed a mock rescue of two injured in Llevant Beach

Salou. Costa Dorada. Technicians assigned to the City of Salou Beaches Department, Environmental Quality, Tourism, Civil Protection and Police, as well as team-Municipal Lifeguard Altesport-participated in a drill this morning to check the effectiveness of their resources to an emergency on the beach. The drill that took place in Levante Beach intends to comply with the certification of the "Q" Quality of beaches as well as the certification of ISO14001: 04. The drill involved when a bather who was the mark of 200 meters gave the alert signal to fatigue, an act followed his father went to look and stayed about 50 feet of power come to rescue his son. Both have been detected by the lifeguard in the area, next to the breakwater of the harbor-which has launched an emergency device, all the warning il'ambulància rescue boat. The operation has worked well with a response time under the requirements of the Q for Quality. Around the entire deployment of rescue has generated a large number of onlookers who were had to explain later that there had been no real drowned and it was a sham. Mayor Pere Granados, after the operation has been evaluated very positive response from everyone involved in mock surprise and stressed that in the context of several fatal accidents in summer resorts because of carelessness "in Salou we wanted to once again test our services for an accident to know how to deal with such emergencies, however, have not had any unfortunate incident in the relevant season so far, "he said. With respect to antisocial attitudes by some bathers the mayor also wanted to point out that "to be studied include economic sanctions ordinances to prevent such carelessness endangering people's lives and especially for those who do ignore the warnings and have a negligent behavior. " However, Granados is reminded that deep "in the government work daily to improve the management of our beaches, to minimize environmental impact, and because the water and sand have been an excellent ". The most famous beaches, tourism, Salou: Playa de Llevant and Poniente beach since 2008 are certified with the seal of quality Q of Spanish Tourism Quality, a recognition by the certifying body ICTE (Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality ). This certification was normalized at the national level as a UNE in 2008, becoming the quality standard UNE 187001: 2008. In recent years, 2009 and 2010, the two main beaches of Salou have repeated this certification in September 2011 and this will continue working to renew the certification that evaluates aspects such as security, rescue and first aid, information given to the beach cleaning and waste collection, maintenance of facilities and equipment, access, services, hygiene, food and beverage services, equipment rental and equipment and management system. Salou's beaches are also certified with other awards such as ISO 14001: 2004 all of them, plus the blue flag and the Q for Quality. The drill was attended by various council members such as tourism, Benedict Dams; of the Beaches, Environmental Quality and Julia Gomez, Ramon Pascual, among others.

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