SHARK HAS LEFT US
Carlos Chavez, a veteran comando from the 1980s and 1990s, died in the United States, according to his family. For many years, Carlos was one of the best lifeguards of Comandos de Salvamento, also standing…
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TRAGEDY ON COMALAPA HIGHWAY
Six people were injured in a traffic accident recorded Friday night at kilometer 13 of the Highway leading from Comalapa to San Salvador, near Santo Tomás. One of the first vehicles had collided with a…
COMANDOS IN EMERGENCY VACATION PLAN
Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, which is part of the National Emergency System of Protección Civil and the Ministry of Governance, has begun meetings to unify strategic plans to provide better emergency services during…
1 DOA and 2 Injured in Comalapa
CDS arrived on scene to a female DOA and extricated 2 others that were trapped in a vehicle after it had crashed on the freeway to the International airport. According to the driver, the passenger…
COMANDOS RECOVER BODY IN INTEGRACIÓN ACCIDENT
Responders from Comandos de Salvamento recovered the body of one of the two victims involved in an accident this morning at the Integración roundabout in this capital city. Both victims were traveling in a truck…
MAN FALLS INTO RAVINE IN LOURDES, COLÓN
Comandos de Salvamento rescuers from Ciudad Arce and Lourdes, Colón, recovered Mr. Roger Alberto Cosme, 60, who fell into a ravine near Ateos, in La Libertad. The man fell from a height of approximately ten…
IMACASA DONATES STABILIZATION STRUTS TO COMANDOS
The company Imacasa donated stabilization struts so that the Santa Ana Vehicle Rescue Unit can carry out vehicle stabilization work in the event of traffic accidents, which have increased in recent days. Comandos de Salvamento…
TRAGIC TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND
Members of the Vehicle Rescue Unit of Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador carried out several extrications during the early hours of Saturday and this Sunday. One of the interventions in which hydraulic equipment had…
NEW COMANDOS DE SALVAMENTO RESCUERS
A group of 21 young volunteer rescuers from the various delegations of Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador graduated this Sunday in the field of Vertical Rescue. The volunteers underwent demanding physical and theoretical tests…
BLIND MAN FALLS INTO RAVINE IN CIUDAD DELGADO
A man fell early this morning into an approximately 6-meter-deep ravine on Avenida Paleca in Ciudad Delgado. First responders and rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento went to the scene of the incident to stabilize the…
TRAGEDY IN COMALAPA
Three people lost their lives this afternoon at kilometer 39 of the Carretera a Comalapa, where a pickup truck carrying five people collided with the rear of a truck. The deceased victims were identified as…
MAN FALLS FROM BUS AND IS SWEPT AWAY BY CURRENT
Comandos de Salvamento of Santa Ana continue searching for Mr. Carlos Armando Juárez Centeno, 58, who on Saturday night fell into a drainage ditch while getting off a public transportation unit in Cantón Cruz Verde,…
