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10,000 rescue agents mobilized for the summer season
A special surveillance device installed by the DGPC
It’s almost the start of the summer season (next June 21) synonymous with the release of the summer season, a crucial and arduous period for the rescue teams under the General Directorate of Civil Protection (DGPC), when the latter are multiplying intervention operations by four to save drowning people across the 456 beaches authorized for swimming. Yesterday and through a press release made public by the Communication Unit reporting to the General Directorate of Civil Protection (DGPC ), the latter announced the entry into force of the special plan for the summer season and the deployment of 10,107 rescue agents across 14 coastal wilayas including 456 beaches authorized for swimming as part of a draconian surveillance system.
“The General Directorate of Civil Protection installed, the day before yesterday, Tuesday June 4, 2024, its surveillance device to secure beaches in 14 coastal wilayas, in anticipation of the summer season,” reported the special bulletin of the DGPC.
Further explaining its security plan for this summer, Civil Protection informed that “10,107 agents will monitor 456 beaches authorized for swimming in the wilayas of Chlef, Béjaïa, Tlemcen, Tizi Ouzou, Algiers, Jijel, Skikda, Annaba, Mostaganem, Oran, Boumerdès, El-Tarf, Tipasa, and Ain Témouchent,” said the same source. Among the mobilized workforce, underlines the said press release, “985 agents, 369 lifeguards and 8,753 seasonal agents”, explains the press release. In addition to the mobilization of more than 10,000 rescue agents, the DGPC also incorporated heavy equipment allowing great efficiency in intervention and rescue operations. To this end, the General Directorate of Civil Protection has mobilized “254 canoes, 799 life jackets, 2,415 life buoys, in addition to 1,938 units of diving masks and fins”, reports the DGPC. This strong mobilization of rescue units with heavy means announced by the General Directorate of Civil Protection came at the right time, because numerous cases of drowning of young children are already reported across beaches and, above all, in sea reserves. water and lakes.
Just the day before yesterday, a 30-year-old man was recovered lifeless by Civil Protection divers in a rocky area which is part of Delphine beach in the coastal wilaya of Oran. The victim’s remains were evacuated the day before yesterday to the morgue of Arzou hospital. This case of drowning at sea was preceded by dozens of similar cases, in the majority of cases involving children. In total, and from last May 1 to June 5, around fifteen children and eight men lost their lives at sea, in water reserves and in lakes. We are already at 23 fatal drownings since May 1st and this is, unfortunately, only the beginning since the summer season, this period of torrid heatwave, will soon make its entrance. Let us remember the tragedy that occurred at Sablettes beach in Algiers during the night of May 11, when 5 schoolchildren from Médéa who came on a school excursion organized by a local Association died at sea. A misfortune that shook the entire country.
Opposite, other children and young people had died in situations similar to that at Sablettes beach in Algiers. These are ten other deaths by drowning reported in water reserves across the wilayas of Tizi Ouzou, Tipasa, Blida, Annaba, Oran, Djelfa and finally Sétif. The ten victims are aged between 10 and 40, all young people. Every day, Civil Protection rescue teams carry out dozens of interventions at sea, lakes and water reserves to save drowned people. By 2023, more than 200 people had died at sea, across water reserves and lakes. The rise in temperatures during the summer season, almost touching 50 degrees Celsius, pushes thousands of citizens to go to sea, a sort of maximum alert for the Civil Protection rescue teams, where vigilance will be at its highest. at capacity and the supervision of bathers becomes a priority issue. A very difficult task.
Sofiane Abi