Calpe is gradually returning to normal after yesterday's power cut. Today, municipal offices and facilities are reopening as normal and schools are opening their doors, although there will be no classes.
Throughout yesterday afternoon and evening, the local police force was reinforced and a thermal drone was deployed. One of the first measures was to close intersections regulated by traffic lights to prevent accidents. The local police and Civil Protection rescued around twenty people trapped in lifts.
The Town Hall provided a generator for the health centre and also carried out a manual census of people in the municipality who require a respirator at home.
Yesterday at 5 p.m., a meeting of the CECOPAL was held, attended by municipal officials, the Local Police, Civil Protection and the Red Cross, where measures were agreed upon, such as transferring ambulances to the police station, as the health centre was not receiving any calls. CECOPAL provided petrol for ambulances and police and Civil Protection vehicles, maintained constant contact with the municipality's nursing homes and delivered bottled water to one of the nursing homes that had problems with its water supply pump.
The power cut did not cause any drinking water shortages or sewage relief. Aguas de Calpee worked until the early hours of the morning to manually control the reservoirs and continuously refill the GGEEs at the sewage treatment plants.
The thermal drone was in operation during the night to prevent vandalism or looting, and several Local Police and Civil Protection vehicles also patrolled the streets of the municipality. The Councillor for Public Safety, Guillermo Sendra, reported that there were no traffic accidents or acts of vandalism and highlighted the calm of the population in general.
Advice and recommendations were broadcast to citizens on the Municipal Radio. The mayor, the councillor for public safety, the chief of police and the head of civil protection broadcast several messages of reassurance to the population on the municipal radio station.
Mayor Ana Sala said, ‘I would like to highlight the civic and responsible behaviour of the residents of Calpee and thank the local police, civil protection and Red Cross for their work during these hours’.