Intervention Capacities
ASEM 112 (Agencia de Seguridad y Emergencias Madrid 112)
The Madrid Emergency and Security Agency 112 (ASEM112), which includes emergency services of the Community of Madrid, such as SUMMA112, Madrid Community Firefighters, Forest Agents and the Madrid 112 Emergency Center, celebrates its first year of operation as a group.
- The Madrid Community Fire Department, with 50 years of history, has 19 fire stations strategically distributed to attend emergencies that occur in any municipality in the region. The Special Mountain Rescue Group of the Community of Madrid (GERA) was created in 1998 within the Madrid Community Fire Department, to offer professional and specialized response to the demands of assistance due to accidents or missing persons in the mountains of Madrid.
- The professionals of the Emergency Medical Service, SUMMA112, are in charge of attending emergencies and extra-hospital health emergencies in the Community of Madrid. They make an average of one and a half million health care emergency responses per year.
- The Madrid Community Forest Firefighter Corps has been protecting wildlife for more than 130 years and has been legally granted the status of ‘agents of the authority’ and ‘special administrative police’. It is present throughout the territory of the Community of Madrid covered by 17 county offices.
- The Madrid Community 112 Emergency Center has just completed 20 years of operation. It manages more than 90% of emergency calls in the region, with an average of 12,500 calls daily. Madrid 112 also has a leading role in the management and communication of the various emergency plans.
