Culebronchris

I live in a small town in Alicante called Pinoso. There is a system where the local police keep a register, with GPS co-ordinates, for houses in the campo. The idea being that if you phone 112 and quote your number on the register the emergency services will be able to find you no matter how far off the beaten track you are.

I know there is a similar system in Ontinyent. Is this system standard all over Spain?

Dick Dasterdly

Wish it was.
I once phoned the fire brigade and it took them 3 hours to find the place.
Even most of the nearby villagers haven't a clue where my tiny urbanisation is or have even heard of it.
Quite a good idea though, especially considering the complicated spread of some of the places around here.

flotsum

Thanks for this I have been trying to find out how to do this for years. I will go and see if our local police do this.

HBG

I know that only a few miles from where you are the Cruz Roja ambulances have a similar system in place once you have registered with them.

Fred James

I don't know about a registration system but I keep our GPS coordinates next to the phone so in an emergency I can quote them.

I did also read that every house in the Campo has a finca number and the emergency services have details of their location. The finca number is on the escritura.

HBG

The registration system for the Cruz Roja ambulances involves the payment of a small fee, it used to be five Euros.

Cats-R-Us

Unfortunately where we live the GPS system doesn't find all of us so a group of us, who mostly live in caves and off the beaten track, have got together as a self-help group. We know that the Local Police know where we all are and has helped out previously but he is only 1 man and cannot be everywhere 24 hours a day. Our system is that in an emergency we ring the nearest person (or the next on the list if they are not available) to go to a pre-designated point to meet the emergency services and to lead them to the property concerned. We did this recently where we met an ambulance at the local cemetery (unfortunate place but it is easily found) and led them up the relevant track to where the sick person lived. We have various designated points in the area near to where each person lives - we are widely spread around the area. The mayor likes the idea and has given her help and approval to help us set up the system (photocopying the lists and maps etc at no charge).

battlezone123

What a brilliant system. We have had no problem with the emergency services finding us (but couriers are a different matter).

Domino

Yes, it sounds it and perhaps information on this and any other systems should be spread around the expat community more.

looking at buying a house, was at one place and the owner asked where we were off to next to which the agent gave the community name and the guy didn't know where it was - but it was no more than 10mins away on a zig-zag route from where they were.
And it wasn't as if they hadn't been here very long - unless you call 10 years a short time