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The athlete was transferred to the hospital with significant injuries after a six-and-a-half-hour location, rescue and evacuation operation. The Councilor for Emergencies of the Lorca City Council, Isabel Casalduero, has reported the rescue that the members of the Municipal Emergency Service carried out yesterday afternoon. Casalduero explained that "it was 6:33 p.m.

when 112 received a call warning that a person who was doing sports near the top of Cejo de los Enamorados, in the Sierra de la Peñarrubia, and was dizzy and disoriented Immediately, an emergency unit from the Lorca base and a reinforcement from the Lorca-Norte de Zarcilla de Ramos emergency base traveled to the area.

" "At around 8:30 p.m., emergency personnel located the hiker who had suffered a serious accident when he fell down a ravine on the north face of the Cejo de los Enamorados, in a steep area with very difficult access.

upon extraction and the presence of a medicalized ambulance is requested since the athlete, a 42-year-old male from Lorca, had several polyconusions. The mayor has detailed that "as it is at night and it is not possible to use aerial means for rescue, the evacuation of the wounded was carried out on a stretcher, through a very steep mountain area, involving a great effort and a transfer on foot of more than two hours until reaching the Lorca-La Parroquia RM-701 highway, where he was stabilized by the members of the 061, suffering in a first evaluation major trauma to the head, chest and back ". Casalduero Jódar has indicated that "the operation to locate, rescue and evacuate the wounded has been carried out in a period of six and a half hours, in very difficult conditions, due to the abrupt terrain and the delicate state of the victim." The Councilor for Emergencies has specified that "in this operation a technician and five agents of the Emergency Service of the City of Lorca have participated, four members of the Association of Civil Protection Volunteers, being supported in the last part of the evacuation by an endowment of the Regional Fire Fighting Consortium ". Isabel Casalduero recalled that "during this year, the Lorca Emergency and Civil Protection Service has participated in 4 mountain rescues" and has insisted that "as far as possible, mountain sports activities are not carried out at a level.

individual, complying with the security measures established by the health pandemic situation in which we find ourselves, avoiding traveling at night and leaving marked roads and trails and always having a mobile phone with a charged battery, flashlight, food, water and warm clothes.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca