ELDERLY COUPLE SUFFERS BURNS FROM PROPANE GAS IN ILOPANGO

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Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador assisted an elderly couple this morning who suffered second-degree burns while attempting to prepare breakfast at their home in Comunidad La Selva, passage 5, in Ilopango.

Rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Ilopango branch, arrived at the scene of the incident, where the elderly couple stated that they were trying to heat their food for breakfast when the propane gas flames engulfed the clothing of Fidelina Amaya Medrano, 77.

Her life partner, Porfirio Acosta Cruz, 79, saw that his wife was engulfed in flames and tried to help her, but his clothes also caught fire. Both elderly people were stabilized for their burns and subsequently admitted to San Bartolo Hospital, Ilopango.