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Mountain rescues rising
EMERGENCY personnel of the Mallorca fire department were in the Tossals Verds mountain area at the weekend performing training exercises for extreme rescue operations.
Numbers of callouts to save mountain walkers and climbers that get into difficulties in the Serra de Tramuntana are said to multiply each year, many of which require rescuers to perform extremely difficult manoeuvres due to access difficulties and environmental obstacles.
Most of the problems arise when explorers try to investigate new routes without having the appropriate physical or technical preparation.
Bombers de Mallorca have performed 71 of these operations between the start of the year and the end of March alone 21 more than during the same period in 2022.
If the same trend continues, this year could break all existing records for mountain rescues in Mallorca.
There are currently 40 rescue experts at Sóller and Inca fire stations working closely with the Mountain Rescue department of the Guardia Civil, who provide a helicopter for the trickiest operations.
The fire department is also in constant contact with the IBSalut health services, as injured walkers are first lifted to safety on a stretcher and then collected by ambulance.
MANACOR Council has installed 17 public pingpong tables at different open air points throughout the town, Porto Cristo and s’Illot.
The move by the municipal Youth department is aimed at promoting table tennis as a means of transmitting good values, encouraging healthy leisure activities and community relations.
According to the town hall, the pingpong tables have an ‘antivandalism’ design with metal surfaces and nets to prevent breakages and theft.
They are located at the Parc de na Molla, the municipal park, the skatepark, Molí d’en Beió and Serralt neighbourhood in Manacor, at the Plaça del Sol i de la Lluna, Plaça Francesc Ramis and Plaça de
