Thermal cameras, near the port and the river in Aarhus will be able to save lives.
Therefore calls for The Radical in the Aarhus city Council is now much faster action from Engineering and Environment to put cameras up along the river and harbour.
This write-Århus Stiftstidende.
It surprises me that we are no longer with the cameras. I thought and expected that they would be up before the christmas parties, says Eva Borchorst Mejnertz (S) to the media.
Parts of the Aarhus River is secured with handrails. But it pours and not the whole line or the waterfront.
In the Municipality of Aalborg, is one that has been heat-seeking cameras at the city’s port since 2016. The cameras have, according to the municipality helped to save two lives.
the Cameras detects namely, if something hot – like for example a man – fall in the water. Then there will be automatically sounded the alarm to the police and the fire brigade.
In Aarhus since 2003 been nine drownings in and around the harbour. Most recently last winter, when the 27-year-old Steffen Dam Jensen disappeared after a christmas party and was found drowned in the harbor three months later.
President of the Council for Greater water safety Sven Hedegaard is in favour of the thermal cameras you have in Aalborg, should be put up in Aarhus.
– Especially in the winter when the water is very cold, people risking to stiffen and like drowning, while others go into panic, because it is cold and dark, and then also drown. Therefore quick help is crucial, he says, to Århus Stiftstidende.
Already in February 2019 proposed The Radical in the Aarhus city Council to get the thermal cameras set up in the city. At the budget negotiations seven months later found the city council the money for a pilot project.
In all deposed parties behind the budgetforliget 1.9 million dollars. The money must also range to several lifebuoys and ladders, better lighting, fencing and redningswire.
But People Eva Borchorst Mejnertz believe that it is too slow.
– I will have it incredibly bad, if there is a new blame, while we are waiting she says to the media.
