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…
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“Friends”,and a Machete..
At the start of February, Dr. Margarita Orellana of Comandos de Salvamento was participating in a health brigade when the unit received an emergency call in Berlin Usulután. An assault with a Machete had taken…
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…
The Offensive: 20 Years Ago
Twenty years ago in the neighborhoods of San Salvador: Mejicanos, Ciudad Delgado, Escalón, Soyapango and others were pure war zones. It is important to rememer the anonymous EMS heroes that put themselves in harms way to…
Drugs and Alcohol
The transport of intoxicated patients is a common duty that CDS does to offer support to patients and families. Family members and friends of these types of patients should accompany their loved ones to the…
Gunfight in Apopa
A CDS EMS crew offers first aid to a bullet wound patient that resulted from a gunfight-“Balacera” north of San Salvador in Apopa. The patient presented with three bullet wounds in various areas. Another person…
Offering Public Safety and Security
CDS always takes into account the safety of the public. This photograph illustrates an evacuation of children from a school in Ciudad Delgado. There was a street disturbance between sellers that were protesting in front…
Violent Day
Six people resulted injured from bullet wounds this Thursday afternoon October 1st. CDS transported three of the victims to Rosales Hospital in San Salvador.At the hospital, a doctor eported that this afternoon violence came from…
Homenage to a Great Volunteer
69 yo Oscar Aquino Rosales a Comando that worked many years and saving lives during the civil war died this pasunday Sept. 13th due to a prolonged illness. During the 1980 Offensive in Ciudad Delgado,…
Riot 2006: Helping the UMO
This video illustrates the dangerous circumstances that some CDS personnel can find themselves while helping people. Sometimes even under fire. During the civil war, CDS protected civilians that were caught in crossfires between the FMLN…
CDS American Vets
Two American Comandos send a big salute to the Base Central of CDS from Wenatchee Washington USA. Eric Lorenzo and Mark Hoffman served with the Comandos in the 90s. Eric, who now lives in Colorado…
Women and Children First
As a general rule, in high risk situations, women and children are the focus of any comando’s rescue endeavor. As seen in the photographs below, during a “street disorder”-desorden” in 2007, CDS protect civilians from…
