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Passersby may have been surprised by all the commotion around Hotel Almijarra on the 25th, with the police and emergency services pouring in and out of the building, but there was no cause for concern as it was all an emergency exercise, or a simulacro, as they say in Spanish.

The last exercise of this kind, readers might remember, was in a tunnel on the A-7 (Canatalobos) last year, where the emergency services went through the contingency plans for its evacuation and the transfer of the theoretically injured to hospital facilities.

This latest exercise was to put into practice skills learnt during courses in March and April and to try out new equipment. The imaginary incident was a hotel-room fire requiring the evacuation of staff and guests.

The First Councillor for La Herradura, who is also the Councillor for Citizen Safety, Juan José Ruiz Joya, explained that above all, the exercise was to test reaction time, efficiency and co-ordination between the Policia Municipal, the fire service, ambulance crews and Protección Civil.

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)