20 Years of the Emu

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The Military Emergency Unit (UME) yesterday celebrated 20 years established as one of the main forces of intervention in emergency situations, not only in the Canary Islands, but throughout the national territory. It is the armed force closest to the citizens. Fires, La Palma volcano, the pandemic... there is no catastrophe in which the military are not present.

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A unit that was born of necessity The UME was officially created on 7 October 2005 by agreement of the Council of Ministers, in application of Organic Law 5/2005 of the National Defense. Its objective: to ensure an immediate and coordinated response of the State to situations of serious risk or catastrophe. In its early years, this pioneering unit was scepticized, but soon proved its effectiveness with interventions in forest fires, floods and r…

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Teresa Díaz Madrid, 7 Oct (EFE).- The head of the Military Emergency Unit, Lieutenant General Francisco Javier Marcos, assures that the UME is ready to deal with the climate emergency with increasingly unforeseen and virulent catastrophes, and warns that, in this new scenario, "the most complicated mission is yet to come." In an interview with EFE on the occasion of the commemoration this Tuesday of the 20th anniversary of the creation of this u…

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Created on October 7 of that year by the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the UME emerged with the legal mission to “contribute to the safety and well-being of citizens and provide rapid response in situations of serious risk, catastrophe, calamity or other public needs.” Since then, and as was evident in the central event commemorating the anniversary celebrated on Saturday, October 4 at Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base, the UME …