The City Council of the Alcázares recognized last Sunday the altruistic work of aid provided in the municipality by the Civil Protection staff of Campos del Río in the floods suffered by the municipality of Marmenorense last December 2016.
The act attended by the head of the Association and president of the Civil Protection Volunteers Association of Campos del Río, José Luis Sánchez;
the deputy head, Juan José Macías, along with two volunteers, Eva López and Miriam Barquero, was full of emotion, as the mayor of Los Alcázares, Anastasio Bastida, recalled the suffering that those alcazares suffered during those days. of hours, they lost everything they had obtained during a lifetime.
The head of the Agrupación de Campos del Río, José Luis Sánchez, remembered the 3 consecutive days in which the volunteers were displaced to the municipality of Los Alcázares with a vehicle and a motor pump.
Sanchez narrated excited as the first day of the catastrophe came the expedition jacket about 17 hours and were a situation Dantesque with all the streets of the population flooded, so they immediately set out to work performing tasks of bailing water in the basements of the houses flooded and later they were in charge of the cleaning of mud in the streets helping to restore the normality in some roads of the population.
The delivery of more than 150 recognitions, among which was granted to Civil Protection of Campos del Río along with the general directorates of Emergencies and Citizen Security, Youth, Sports, Civil Protections of more than 20 municipalities of the Region of Murcia, the UCAM, the CTD Infanta Cristina, Carrefour, Mercadona, 112, numerous companies of the municipality and neighborhood associations, sports, cultural, ecclesiastical ... were delivered by the mayor of Los Alcázares, the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López You see, the Delegate of the Government, Francisco Bernabé, the president of the Regional Assembly, Rosa Peñalver, an affected person and a volunteer of those days.
The mayor of Campos del Río, María José Pérez Cerón, added to this recognition that she described as "very well-deserved, since the Association and the Civil Protection Volunteers Association are a good example of the generosity of campers and campers who always They are willing to help those who need it most. "
Also took the opportunity to remember, "the great work, with impeccable professionalism, develops this group in our town throughout the year in many events and activities where they always ensure the safety and proper development of the same for all neighbors of Fields of the River ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río