Marbella delegation of Public Safety has introduced a new GPS system in the fleet of fire stations to assist the officers on duty while finding the exact location without much trouble.

These days, the use of GPS – the navigation tool – has been quite common among people, and its use in the fire brigades certainly reduces response time in an emergency.

The new system of GPS and GPRS will facilitate and improve communication between vehicles and the central control room. It has been developed with an investment of 60,000 euros and took almost two years to develop because of its complexity, the City Council informed.

Presently, such service is only available in the whole Fire Fighting Service of Malaga along the Costa del Sol region. It is a useful tool in locating, and in case of Marbella the centralised computerised system makes it quite easy to locate as many as 16 vehicles at anytime and anywhere in the country.

As explained by the delegate of the branch, Maria Francisca Caracuel, it is also under the provision to meet calls from other municipalities in the province as Estepona, Ojen, and Istan, and not mere Marbella and San Pedro.

The GPS enabled fire office in Marbella will also provide a wide range of other related information about the area in service which includes details of the most nearby hydrants for the service of water as to the centres that should be evacuated.

Chief of Fire Fighting, Jesus Sanchez Oliva, also valued vociferously the proposed use of the system by explaining that the system is activated when an emergency is alerted and sent the route and necessary information to the vehicles that will operate through your PDA, who in turn may also report information to the mainstream.

“It is a device which results in improved service because we can always know the availability of the fleet and the possibility of other actions to strengthen support,” Oliva further added.