On the evening of 8 October 2026, a 32-year-old hiker was treated after a fall in the area of Las Cañadas del Teide (municipality of La Orotava) and taken to Hospital Universitario Hospiten Bellevue by ambulance. The emergency coordination centre Centro Coordinador de Emergencias y Seguridad (CECOES) 112 of the Gobierno de Canarias reported the incident with a call receipt time of 10:23 pm; the official notice was published on 9 October. It was therefore a night-time operation requiring coordination between the teams involved.
CECOES 112 assessed the emergency call, located the scene and activated the relevant teams. According to the authorities, the Parque Nacional del Teide, guardas rurales, the Consorcio de Bomberos de Tenerife, with Cruz Roja and the Guardia Civil took part in the search and rescue. The teams formed a joint operation at the scene, gave first aid and handed the woman over to the ambulance service. The notice describes the operation as being managed in separate sectors: in the “Extinción, Salvamento y Rescate” area, teams located the woman, reached her and carried out the technical evacuation to the handover point for the medical team.
In the medical sector, the Servicio de Urgencias Canario (SUC) coordinated treatment. Based on callers’ accounts and an assessment of the situation, an ambulance providing basic emergency care was dispatched at the instruction of the SUC dispatcher. SUC staff examined the woman and initially treated her at the scene. According to the authorities, she had suffered trauma that was initially assessed as moderate in severity. She was then taken to Hospital Universitario Hospiten Bellevue. The official notice mentions no air transport and gives no further details of the cause of the accident or her subsequent condition.
Las Cañadas del Teide is a busy hiking area in Parque Nacional del Teide. Its topography and rapidly changing weather regularly lead to rescue operations following falls or exhaustion. The response illustrates the established procedure in the Canary Islands: CECOES 112 takes emergency calls, assesses them and directs alerts by sector to the relevant authorities and organisations; park management, security forces and emergency services then work together until the medical handover to the Servicio de Urgencias Canario (SUC).
Editor: Andreas M. Brucker (Article created with AI assistance).