Palma lifeguard service starts tomorrow

THE Palma city council's life guard service will come into operation tomorrow, and this year, it will spread as far as Llucmajor.
The number of life guards will be 17, two more than last summer, and they will have new resources such as a semi-automatic defibrillator in the Playa de Palma ambulance. This was announced yesterday by María Crespo, president of ENAYA, at the signing of the agreement for the service between the Mayors of Palma and Llucmajor, Joan Fageda and Lluc Tomás, and the president of the Red Cross in the Balearics. The cost is 162'600 euros. Crespo said that the service is starting two weeks earlier than last year, and will continue for a week longer.
The lifeguards will also have new radio transmitters and long-range binoculars, as well as a new vehicle, ceded to the Red Cross by a golf course, to enable the life guards reach the scene of an emergency faster. There will be seven watchtowers on the beaches of Playa de Palma, Arenal, Ciudad Jardin, Can Pere Antoni and Cala Mayor.