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Marko Hoffman ha sido colaborador y un representante internacional de Comandos de Salvamento desde 1996.

Rainy Season Agatha: Evacuations

EMS crews from Comandos de Salvamento recently evacuated 26 families composed of 96 people in the small village of Joya Grande de Santiago Texacuangos. They were transferred to the Camilo Campos school for shelter. Later that afternoon the Comandos had to use neighboring roads for the evacuation operation due to the main road to Joya Grande being cut off by flooding 3 miles from the entrance. Many other people were evacuated by the National Civilian Police PNC and Comandos de Salvamento via a Boat owned by POLITUR, the tourism police branch of the PNC.


Diario Colatino also has a small report on recent rescues here.
Foto: Ricardo Segura/Colatino

Rainy Season Emergency Report 1

Emergencies Attended

Due to SNET territorial studies on the current rainy season, on May 23 at 7:30 pm, certain events were reported that resulted in the following persons being evacuated to the town of Sensuntepeque in the dept of Cabañas.

Marta Mirna Hernández  56 yo
Marlon Ulises Cruz 15
yo
Edwin Alexis Castro 11 yo
Denis Guadalupe Castro 9 yo
Jennifer Guadalupe Cruz 8 yo
Minerva Josué Cruz 3 yo

On the 26th of May our delegation of Comandos Sensuntepeque reported that in the small village of Copenlopapa a youth of 12 years of age named Leidy Vanessa Aguirre  was struck by lightening resulting in immediate death. They also reported that 20 people of 6 families made their own decision to not be evaciated. All signed documents of their self determined decision not to be transferred to shelters that are located in the Centro  Escolar=Central School of Los Naranjos, Ciudad Dolores, Sensuntepeque. These are the most recent emergency reports and will be updated upon new events. For the complete bulletin in Spanish only please see the .pdf file. -pendiente.