At 16:30 pm on Sunday April 7, a call from the Provincial Coordination Center Red Cross warned Murcia Eagles DB the crash of a hiker in the Black Cabezo, on the border of the provinces of Murcia and Almeria.
The victim, a 66 year old male who responds to initial natural Huércal AMM and Overa, had suffered, apparently, a fall resulting in an injury to his lower extremities that precluded the movement on their own.
Local Director of Health and Relief, Miguel Angel Molina Gallego, decided to activate several roadblocks Volunteer to activate the Rapid Intervention jeeps and collaborate with the Technical Health Emergency Basic Life Support Ambulance on rescue and evacuation of the patient, the possibility that the hiker was found in an area of ​​difficult access, as eventually happened.
After arriving at the scene and rescuers TES Red Eagles Cross evaluated and stabilized "in situ" the hiker who had symptoms of suffering a fracture in one of his ankles and he was immobilized and evacuated to the Basic Life Support Ambulance and subsequently transferred to the Emergency Department of Eagles North Health Center for additional medical testing.
Source: Cruz Roja Águilas