In many parts of the world there are a variety of ways to be assaulted. In El Salvador, weapons used are often incorporated into verbs and the common language of the street. The infinitive verb “Apedrar” is an example. During this emergency, the caller informed us that a man had been “apedrado”-rocked. In the neighborhood…
Earlier this morning, 15 people died and 95 were injured during a quadruple MVA that occured at km42 on the highway to Santa Ana near Ciudad Arce, La Libertad. On scene were nine DOAs while others acutely injured passed away in surrounding hospitals. Firefighters and EMS crews had to extricate most of the patients from crushed…
Rescue and EMS crews from Comandos de Salvamento, Green Cross, Red Cross and the National Firefighters worked together in rescuing Jaime Arnulfo Jimenez who was trapped inside a MIDES semi. The vehilce had gone over a cliff near the Redondel Integración north of Mejicanos in Apopa. A Jorge Ernesto Granados, who was the driver, died…
