Semana Santa: Operation First Responders 2010
Comunicado de Prensa: Comandos Starts Operation First Responders for Semana Santa Vacations 2010
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Search & Rescue
Rescue Drill Soon: Majahual Beach 2010
Every year, Comandos de Salvamento will be doing another massive rescue simulation drill at the beaches of El Majahual La Libertad this coming Sunday March 21. Such activity is to keep our rescue and EMS…
Recovery of Gang Victim Violence
A 15 year old patient only identified as Guillermo was rescued from a cliff in front of a soccer field in the neighborhood Colonia Villa Hermosa in San Luis Mariona, north of San Salvador. The…
Body Recovery in Ciudad Delgado
Search and Recovery crews from CDS recover a body of a man around Colonia Los Alpes in Ciudad Delgado. The man was found deceased in the Acelhuate river. The cause of death could not be…
Mountain Recovery: Red Cross Collaboration
EMS Recovery crews from CDS and Salvadoran Red Cross recover the body of a female that committed suicide by jumping off the face of Puerta de Diablo, south of San Salvador. Recovery efforts took a…
Rescue: Antiguo Base
CDS EMTs from the Antiguo Cuscatlán base rescue patient Ángela Maldonado who was victim of a traffic accident on the Central American Highway. National firefighters and CDS worked together in the extrication. The patients car…
Haiti Trip on Hold
Previously posted: some Comandos were heading to Haiti. Correction: As directed per the National Civil Protection agency, a group of four search and rescue volunteers, specialists in recovery operations of collapsed buildings were on notice…
Death Caused by 40 Meter Fall
Members of CDS Search and Rescue Unit (UDR) recover the cadaver of a person that was found below a bridge that is 40 meters high. The bridge is located at the Venezuela Blvd and Cuscatlan…
Solidarity Inherited
Thirteen year old Alcides Altimirano and fourteen year old Luis Juarez are Volunteer Comandos whose physical abilities and EMS knowledge were put to the test during this last natural disaster that was caused by flooding…
Victim Found during Recovery Operations
CDS recovers a victim from the floods that were caused by heavy rains this last weekend in Verapaz, San Vicente. Salvadoran authorities reported this Friday Nov. 13th, that there has been a total of 184…
Recovery Efforts of the Missing + Help
CDS and military personnel carry supplies and water for flood refugees and survivors in San Emigdio and San Miguel Tepezontes. These are small villages that have remained cut off from communication and by land in…
Search and Recoveries Continue
Comando Veteran Roberto Pacheco and other EMS colleagues prepare for Mondays rescues and recoveries. Six bodies were recovered, three adults and three children. Dozens of Comando volunteers are currently helping victims throughout the country. Foto:…
