Local Police, firefighters and Red Cross participate in a fire drill at City the Hall

Around 10.00 a.m., the alarms have rung in Benidorm City Hall. Officials and residents who were carrying out procedures in the administration, have vacated the building in an orderly manner, following the indications of the alarm and evacuation teams (EAE), appointed by the Safety and Health Committee of the Human Resources department, facing the threat of the flames that would have occurred in some offices on the fourth floor of the Town Hall building.

The noise of alarms, smoke, dozens of troops and special vehicles have alarmed the population that at that time was at Plaza de SS MM los Reyes de España. Fortunately, it was not real. It has been a simulation scheduled secretly by the Department headed Jesús Carrobles to "test the degree of efficiency of security plans and the collaboration of all officials in the resolution of an incident that nobody wants to ever occur", said the mayor.

Local Police, Firemen, Red Cross, with the complicity of emergency number 112, have deployed a device in which several adapted vehicles have intervened, among which there was a truck crane with which the 'rescue' of an official has been completed that supposedly would have been unconscious in an office on the top floor. The plan included three "decoys" (false victims), scattered throughout the building that have been located by the rescue forces and safe after receiving first aid.

The EAE of Benidorm City Hall are composed of 50 workers from the different municipal services. Jesús Carrobles has stressed that it is "responsible people, trained to transmit in situations of chaos confidence and security to other colleagues and have received specific training by the Department in the resolution of this type of conflict."

With this simulation the efficiency of the municipal action plans and the EAE has been demonstrated. The coordination with the emergency services has served to minimize the effects of an episode "that we hope will never occur but for which we must all be prepared," concluded Carrobles.