The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has decreed the suspension of all free activities and shows, as well as the closure of municipal facilities for sports, cultural, recreational, and leisure use in the capital of Lanzarote. This preventive decision is made in anticipation of the effects of Storm Charles, which is approaching the easternmost Canary Islands.
The PEMU activation decree, signed yesterday afternoon, allows for the assignment of reserve teams to assist the population. The mayor, along with the Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Kevin Cortés, has deployed a preventive device in areas sensitive to flooding. Direct monitoring of coastal phenomena, winds, and rain is being carried out. The entire perimeter of the pedestrian promenade next to the Theme Park, in the El Reducto area, has been fenced off to prevent public transit.
The Department of Public Works, under the direct supervision of the mayor, has deployed personnel to install protective barriers in the area of the storm drains, whose manholes are being raised to facilitate greater drainage in these sensitive city areas, where streets are often at sea level. These preventive measures, implemented during the current term, have helped minimize the effects of heavy rains in previous alert episodes.
The Local Police have cordoned off several streets prone to flooding. Similarly, the Department of Mobility and Transport, headed by councilor Mario González Altube, has placed barriers to redirect traffic in streets sensitive to rain-induced flooding episodes—specified in the Arrecife Emergency Plan—such as Portugal street, Doctor Fleming street (both in the La Verga neighborhood), El Antonio street, in the Titerroy neighborhood, near the Insular School of Languages, a street adjacent to one of the sides of the Ciudad Deportiva Lanzarote, and the area of the Cofradía de Pescadores de San Ginés and the Cate next to the Police Station. New works are underway on Vía Medular to expand the rainwater network.
Mayor Yonathan de León requests residents to call 112 in case of emergencies, from which center, if necessary in this city, Protection Civil, Local Police, and personnel from the City Council's Public Works Area will be activated.
