The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Maica Larriba, participated today in the inauguration day of a course of fire extinguishment in ports and boats organized by the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy in collaboration with the Galician Academy of Public Safety and directed to the professionals of the fire extinguishment of the autonomous community. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the president of the Port Authority of Vilagarcía, Xosé Cores Tourís, the general director of Emergencies and Interior, Santiago Villanueva, and the maritime captain of Vilagarcía, Juan Andrés Pérez.
During her speech, the subdelegate put #relevance “to the importance of collaboration between the administrations, in this case the autonomous and the state, which makes it possible to develop and carry out this type of formations”. In this case, the training activity is focused on the extinguishment of fires in all types of ships and docks and is taught by different specialists of the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy, “who put themselves at the disposal of the Galician professionals for a week to instruct and train them,” explained Maica Larriba.
The seminar, which will last 40 hours, will address the most relevant aspects that fire teams must take into account once they arrive at the pier and must enter the interior of a ship to face a fire in the habitable areas or in the cargo warehouses. For this, the attendees will be instructed on the different types of ships that exist, their most common characteristics, the type of materials most common in their construction or the loads they transport, as well as the most appropriate fire-extinguishing techniques in each case.
Maica Larriba also wanted to highlight the importance of the port of Vilagarcía, which hosts the activity, “a fundamental port for Pontevedra and Galicia”. This vacuum, one of the three of interest of the State in the province, receives about one and a half million tons of different types of goods each year, which are transported by more than 400 ships of different types, tonnage and countries of origin that reclaim their docks. In addition to the almost five hundred recreational boats that have their mooring or dock in navigation, we also have our mojes. In total, the subdelegate recalled, there are “more than a thousand boats that throughout the year rest on the docks of Vilagarcía and that show the importance of this port, fundamental for our province and its economy.”