By Cathy Elelman • Published: 16 Apr 2020 • 10:07
FINE MOMENT: Gestures like this “raise us up as a city”, the Almeria Mayor posted. CREDIT: Ramon Fernandez Pacheco Monterreal Facebook @ramonfpm
ALMERIA firefighters have made their own special tribute to medical personnel working on the coronavirus frontline. https://www.facebook.com/ramonfpm/videos/3096618167094028/ Crew members gathered at the entrance to the provincial capital’s Torrecardenas hospital to applaud the doctors, nurses, auxiliary nurses and all the health professionals for their tireless efforts in the battle to defeat the virus. The hospital staff were keen to reciprocate the gesture and show their appreciation for the firefighting service and for all the Almerians doing their bit by staying at home and practising social distancing. “Today we have experienced one of those moments which raises us up as a city,” Almeria mayor Ramon Fernandez-Pacheco posted on social media. “Almeria has the best public servants in the world!” the mayor added
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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