A young child and his grandmother were swiftly taken to the hospital in Gran Canaria after an electricity pole collapsed on them. The incident occurred on Barranquera Honda Street in the municipality of Firgas at 6:38 pm on Wednesday, September 24. The Emergency and Security Coordination Centre (CECOES) 1 1 2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received multiple calls reporting that a truck had tangled in the cables of a utility pole, causing it to uproot and fall on the child and his grandmother.
Volunteer firefighters of Firgas, along with the Civil Guard and three vehicles from the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC), responded to the emergency. The child, aged seven, sustained severe injuries and was promptly transported by a medical ambulance to the Maternal and Child University Hospital of the Canary Islands. The grandmother, with moderate injuries, was transferred in a basic life support ambulance to the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
Furthermore, on the same day, authorities confirmed the discovery of a body in the search for a missing British tourist who vanished from his Spanish hotel over the weekend. The unidentified man was found deceased in woods near the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar. Police, firefighters, and emergency medical responders were dispatched to the scene, where no signs of violence on the body were evident. UK holidaymaker Josh Rogers had been missing for several days, and investigators suspect the recovered body may belong to him, pending official identification through tests.