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No 1016 Monday 25th - Sunday 31st March 2024
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The Costa Blanca’s oldest ‘FREE’ English language newspaper - WITH THE LARGEST LOCAL CIRCULATION
14,000 CHILDREN TAKE P AR T IN TORREVIEJA EARTHQUAKE DRILL ore than 14,000 students from all schools in Torrevieja simultaneously took part in a seismic emergency drill on Thursday, which was carried out on the 195th anniversary of the earthquake that occurred in the Vega Baja in 1829.
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The exercise was organised by the Torrevieja council in conjunction with more than 100 members of the Local Police, Civil Guard, Fire Department, SAMU, Red Cross and Civil Protection. Many members of the public were on hand to witness the simulation, especially in the area around the Plaza de la Constitución, where several tents and a field hospital were set up by the health services to attend to the numerous injuries caused by the earthquake in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. There was more than one scare amongst the local population at the noisy display caused by the constant sound of sirens and the passage of medical and security vehicles. For the drill, an advanced command post was also set up on Paseo Vista Alegre, from where everything was coordinated and recorded. Control centres were also established in two educational centres, CEIP Nuestra Señora del Rosario and IES Mediterráneo, where rescues were carried out in accordance with what would be expected following a catastrophe of this type. In addition, a failure in communications was also simulated, something that could be expected in a situation of similar characteristics.
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