Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid).- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has attended the handover of the Command of the First Emergency Intervention Battalion of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Arribas Lucas, a military act that has been presided over by Lieutenant General Francisco Javier Marcos, head of the UME. Arribas Lucas ha tomado el relevo del teniente coronel Alberto Modino Iturralde.
The event took place at the Air Base of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) and was also attended by the subdelegate of the Government in Toledo, Carlos Ángel Devia, among other authorities.
The First Emergency Intervention Battalion (BIEM I) is located in the facilities that the UME has at the air base of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid). Its operational area of action includes Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid and the provinces of Extremadura and Castilla y León.