Volunteers of Civil Protection in Totana are collaborating today in the search tasks of the missing child since last Tuesday in Níjar (Almería), adding to the device launched a few days ago to locate him.
The four technicians and volunteers of this local group, who do it individually and voluntarily, belong to the Canine Search and Rescue Unit, the Communication and Advanced Search with Drones and Sanitary Emergencies, all of them from the Totana group. .
The volunteers traveled last morning with the Civil Protection Command Unit in this town and will remain throughout the day today, although they do not rule out continuing to provide service if they were required by those responsible for the search device.
The Civil Protection Group of Totana has specialized personnel in the use of drones for search and rescue, as well as with the help of trained dogs for these works.
According to the volunteers themselves, the rain is making it difficult to search especially for the use of drones.
Gabriel Cruz Ramírez, an 8-year-old boy, disappeared in Níjar on Tuesday afternoon when he left his grandmother's house in the neighborhood of Las Hortichuelas to play with cousins ​​at another house only 100 meters away, but not I arrive.
This Friday have been three days of search without result, for the time being.
In the search device coordinated by the Civil Guard, and in which some 500 people participate between professionals and volunteers, all hypotheses are worked on without having firm indications of what might have happened.
When he disappeared, Gabriel wore black Adidas trousers with white stripes and a red hooded jacket with a white T-shirt.
The phone that can call those people who can provide some clue about the whereabouts of the child can contact the 116000 phone as well as the Civil Guard phone or 112.
The search device started from the same point of disappearance and from there it has been extended to about 800 meters around.
During these days, areas that have already been combed have been revised and a specific search has been carried out in singular points such as wells, farmhouses, abandoned houses and water passages, and in no case has any result been achieved so far.
Civil Guard agents from the Comandancia de Almería, Usecic, search and rescue dogs and divers from GEAS have participated on behalf of the Civil Guard.
In addition to the agents of the Armed Institute, personnel from Emergencias Andalucía (112, the Emergency Group of Andalusia - GREA - and Civil Protection), Local Police, Civil Protection groups from Berja, Albox, Níjar, Laujar, Canjáyar, Garrucha have participated. , Mojácar, Vícar, Carboneras, Uleila del Campo, Huércal Overa and Diputación de Almería.
Firemen of the Levant, of the West, and of Almeria have also done it;
Red Cross, Infoca, Environment Agents, Níjar City Council and private volunteers, among others.
