‘Tentegorra’ Artillerymen, Prepared to Rescue Victims and Remove them to Safety

For two days firemen in Cartagena (Murcia) have trained 24 students from the 73rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment and the ‘Tentegorra’ Base Services Unit (Cartagena) in victim rescue and removal to safety techniques.  In addition to the instructors for this workshop, the City Hall’s Council on Citizen Safety has contributed four vehicles from the scrap yard for undertaking the practical exercises.
 

The base in Cartagena, that of the 73rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, is accredited as a collaborating centre of the Public State Employment Service to offer professional training courses for enlisted troop soldiers to improve their qualifications and complement the professional profiles of these temporary troop, in order to facilitate their incorporation into the labour world at the conclusion of their commitment with the Armed Forces.
 

In this context the Medical Transport Course has been organised, which has had collaboration from the Cartagena Red Cross Assembly and the Cartagena City Council fire extinction service firemen to organise workshops on rescue of the injured and their removal to safety. 
 

The workshop’s closing ceremony has been presided over by the commander of the 73rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, Colonel Juan C. López Roca, and the regional minister for the Area of Citizen Safety, Mr. Mariano García Asensio, who were accompanied by the chief of the Cartagena fire station, Mr. Francisco Gómez Ayala, the Murcia Public State Employment Service Training and Employment Co-ordinator, Mr. Isidro Cortes Vicente, and the vice-president of the Cartagena Red Cross Assembly, Mr.  Manuel Miguel González Moro. During the ceremony, diplomas were presented to the students participating in the course. 

  

A moment during the course, instructed by firemen (Photo:73rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment)