COMMANDOS: 17 YEARS SERVING THE PEOPLE OF NEJAPA
17 years have passed since a group of young people began operations in a humble home in the city of Nejapa. Wearing their yellow jackets, they entered the community with the sole objective of helping…
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WOMAN DIES AFTER DROWNING IN A DRAIN
Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador, San Martín branch, recovered the body of a young woman who died during the passage of Tropical Storm Bonnie on Saturday night in San Martín. Relatives of Maura Carolina…
FAMILY TRAPPED AFTER TREE FALLS ON HOME
Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador in Ilopango arrived at Colonia La Cima 2 of San Bartolo, in Ilopango, to rescue a family that had been trapped inside their home after a tree fell on…
5 DEAD DUE TO RAINS IN RECENT HOURS
Five people have lost their lives in recent hours due to the intense rains; two of them died after being buried in Caserío EL Almendro, under the jurisdiction of Lislique, La Unión, in a landslide…
ONE DEAD AND ONE INJURED ON THE ROAD TO COMALAPA
The driver of a car that crashed early this morning, at around 3 a.m., near kilometer 14 of the highway from San Salvador to El Salvador International Airport, experienced moments of anguish. The victim, identified…
MINIBUS CRASHES, LEAVING 11 INJURED
A new traffic accident has left eleven passengers injured, including the driver of route 113’s minibus, which travels from Cojutepeque to San Salvador. The incident occurred around noon this Sunday on the Pan-American Highway at…
PASSENGER TRAPPED IN ACCIDENT
Comandos de Salvamento rescued two people this morning who suffered trauma when the vehicle in which they were traveling crashed on the Highway from Puerto de La Libertad to San Salvador. One of the victims…
COMANDOS DE SALVAMENTO “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”
Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador concluded its emergency operation this Sunday as part of the Holy Week holiday period. Since last Sunday the 10th, hundreds of young volunteers traveled to the first-aid and advanced…
FATALITIES IN ACCIDENTS ON THE FIRST DAY OF VACATION
Early this morning, a woman lost control of her vehicle at kilometer 45 of the Pan-American Highway, crashing into a tree and overturning the pickup truck in which she was traveling with another person, who…
THREE DEAD IN FATAL ACCIDENT IN NEJAPA
Responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador free a person trapped among the wreckage.This afternoon, three people lost their lives in a traffic accident on the road from Quezaltepeque to the Integración roundabout,…
CAR CRASHES INTO TRAILER, TWO DEAD
Early this morning, specialized teams from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador worked to recover two bodies that had been trapped among the wreckage of the vehicle in which they were traveling when it crashed…
A SHARK HAS LEFT US
Carlos Chávez, a veteran of Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador from the 1980s and 1990s, died in the United States, according to his family. For many years, Carlos was one of the best lifeguards…
