A Letter from Ground Zero in Ecuador
Hi Dad, I’m sending some fotos of our work yesterday April 16 at around 12:30 pm in a village called Portoviejo, Manabi. We have been going between various cities here without electricity or Internet but these…
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Other Comandos go to Ecuador
Cuatro more Comandos that are part of the Salvadoran USAR team will be heading to Ecuador to participate in search and recovery efforts. Other rescue agencies will include the Green Cross, Red Cross and National…
Solidarity with Ecuador
Recently, a USAID sponsored training to formulate a national USAR team has finished and the Salvadoran government will be sending part of the Salvadoran National Urban Search and Rescue team to Ecuador to participate in…
Japan offers Pre-Hospital Care Support
Con el objetivo de capacitar a las personas que integran los distintos cuerpos de socorro, Fosalud y SEM, la Ministra de Salud, Dra. Violeta Menjívar, firmó el pasado lunes un proyecto de “Fortalecimiento de las…
El Salvador’s First EMT-B Class Graduates
24 Comandos de Salvamento Volunteers graduated today as EMT-Bs sponsored and acredited by SouthWestern College of San Diego and taught by Paramedic Devin Price. The class was taught in three parts when north american paramedics…
North Americans offer EMT-B Class
Medic Devin Price and Doctor Andrés Marin from the USA started a basic EMT-B class this Monday at our EMS school at the central base. 30 volunteers from different bases throughout the country are taking…
Salvadoran Psychological Warfare (for Soccer)
World Cup qualifier against Mexico Tuesday 930 E.T. @ The Mighty Estadio Cuzcatlan.
Medical Consults for Victims of Tropical Storm 12E
CDS Medical Brigades traveled to the areas of Puerto Parada and Berlin in the dept. of Usulután to offer medical consults to those affected by tropical storm 12E. Flooding in these areas have affected those…
New York City: 10 Years After
In the name of Comandos de Salvamento, International Reps from the USA arrived in NYC the end of September to visit Ground zero and surrounding areas to pay respect and maintain memory of what…
Free Wheel Chair y Comandos Collaboration
Comandos de Salvamento had the opportunity again to collaborate with Free Wheel Chair Mission and Rescue Task force in giving out some wheelchairs to promote our philosophy that everyone should be able to ambulate. The…
High Angle Rescue Training
This last February 24th and 25th, Marlon Rivas and Roberto Campos, members of the CDS central base SAR team, offered a 2 day didactic workshop on high angle rescue in the community of Berlin, and…
CDS Photographer is Awarded
Comandos de Salvamento congratulates our lead journalist Francisco Campos for winning a documentary photography award presented by the Central American University (UCA) of El Salvador. In October of 2010, Francisco documented our work in repatriating…
