Benidorm lifeguards who rescued the Ukrainian tourist in September, distinguished by the Generalitat Valenciana

The International Civil Protection Day is celebrated today, March 1, in commemoration of the day on which the O.I.P.C. (International Civil Protection Organization) as an Intergovernmental Organization, in 1972, the Generalitat Valenciana celebrates an award ceremony this afternoon.

One of them, to the Civil Protection Merit, will be delivered this afternoon to the lifeguard team of Benidorm Beaches made up of Alejandro Ortiz Montesinos and his workmates Adam Fernández, José Bautista and Daniel Jiménez, skipper of the boat. They starred in the rescue of a young Ukrainian tourist who on September 14 fell from the Castell of Benidorm into the sea.

The councillor for Beaches, Mónica Gómez, and the councillor for Public Security, Lorenzo Martínez, will institutionally accompany the distinguished ones who, as the head of beaches has meant, "they acted quickly and with determination to save the life of the 26-year-old Ukrainian woman who on Tuesday, September 14, she fell off the cliff”. Martínez, for his part, pointed out the commitment of the members of the team that "despite the hard conditions of the sea that day, they did not hesitate to risk their lives to save the tourist."

After the rescue operation and with the support of other rescue teams and the SAMU health workers, they managed to revive the young Ukrainian woman and took her to a hospital, where she arrived in a very critical condition due to the seriousness of her injuries when she was hit by the rocks against the cliff, dying 72 hours later.

The lifeguards have always expressed their commitment to "save the lives of those who need us" and have already been honoured in the city of Benidorm, on the occasion of Constitution Day, and received the Important award for the month of September, at the recent gala of the Information Journal.