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Agua Potable para Damnificados

Potable Water Urgently Needed

Comandos de Salvamento and civilians unload water in Joya Grande, a small village in the Ilopango area of San Salvador. Villages around Ilopango were flooded by excess rainfall that happened the same weekend as Hurricane…

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Rescates Helicópteros

Comandos de Salvamento in collaboration with the Salvadoran Air Force rescued three people this Sunday from isolated zones around Lake Ilopango. Patients included a male with an injured leg, an intoxicated individual and a patient…

Niños en Ilopango reciben Pan donado.

Children in Ilopango Shelters

In the neighborhood of Ilopango, in the eastern part of San Salvador, refugee children in shelters smile after receiving bread from Comandos de Salvamento that was donated by Molinos of El Salvador MOLSA. Some 300…

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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…

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Catasrophe in Verapaz

  We call on all who can collaborate with us through financial donations to help and asisst refugees, the homeless, and the hungry in this current time of need. Photo Credit: Pepsi employee that sold…

Rescate de Victimas:Tormenta Ida El Salvador

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…

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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:…

Flood Evacuations: Tradgedy and Deaths

Flood Evacuations: Tradgedy and Deaths

EMS crews from Comandos de Salvamento in collaboration with the Salvadoran Air Force started evacuation people affected by the flooding rains of Hurricane Ida.  Thousands of people in El Salvador live in zones of high…

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Flooding Causes more than 50 Deaths

The Salvadoran Civil Protection Agency reports that flooding caused by Hurricane Ida rains has caused the death of at least 54 persons.  More information aqui. CDS is currently assisting in evacuation and rescue operations throughout…

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10 years and 10,000 visitors

Comandos de Salvamento celebrates it’s 10th anniversary on the web and 10,000 visitors to its new blog/site since it started in March of 2009. Currently we are attending to victims of tropical storm Ida.

Comando "Zorro" observa el daño.

Recuerdos de Las Colinas 2001

Comandos de Salvamento was a the Las Colinas neighborhood of Santa Tecla San Salvador doing recoveries  after the 2001 earthquake January.  A Landslide had covered over 800 homes.  Viewer discretion is advised.  The documentary is…

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