The Cabildo de Tenerife sent this Tuesday to La Palma a device made up of thirteen people and ten vehicles from the Roads area to collaborate in the removal of ash and the maintenance of infrastructures affected by the volcanic eruption that since Sunday, September 19, affects the Island.
The work will focus on cleaning the roads and leaving them in optimal conditions for circulation, as well as helping to clean the airport runway so that normal operations can be resumed.
The vice president and counselor for Roads, Enrique Arriaga, indicates in a note that “the Tenerife corporation will spare no resources to help the palm tree population, which is why it makes personal and material resources such as the convoy of sweepers, mini shovels and trucks available to them. Today they will begin to work on the neighboring island because all the help that is given is little “.
Thus, he points out that “it is about helping to improve communications on the island and that both emergency services and neighbors can work and carry out daily tasks in safety conditions.”
Along these lines, he points out that the Cabildo de La Palma knows that it can count on Tenerife’s resources for whatever they need. “We are in a position to expand this device if required,” he stresses.
The insular director of Roads, Tomás Félix García, is part of the operation that has traveled to the ‘Isla Bonita’ made up of another twelve people: six drivers, a team leader, four maintenance workers and a road engineer.
As technical means there are three multilift trucks with their corresponding tubs for loading material, three mini-shovels with sweeper, a double-cab truck with signaling and manual tool, a high-capacity sweeper-vacuum truck, a pickup-type vehicle with trailer and an off-road vehicle.
In addition to this device deployed by the Roads area, on the island of La Palma, members of the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) have been working since before the eruptive process, a total of 20 on the ground and 38 from their offices, as well as agents of the Tenerife Firefighters Consortium.
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