Category Archives: Vehicular Rescue

Rescues with hydraulic equipment

PanAmerican Highway MVA

Patient being extricated by our staff. .

Volunteers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador, Ilopango section, along with other first response institutions, respond to a traffic accident that occurred early Wednesday morning on the Pan-American Highway at kilometer 25.

Around three in the morning, the rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador arrived at the scene and found a man trapped inside his vehicle, which had collided with one of the trees in the median of the highway, with the cause of the accident unknown.

The victim, identified as Will Alfredo Astovio, 55 years old, was traveling from West to East on the Pan-American Highway when the accident occurred, with him being the only occupant of the vehicle.

The rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador managed to free the victim, who had suffered multiple injuries, and he was subsequently taken to a medical center.

After impacting a tree, Comandos de Salvamento and Green Cross supporting the patient. 

MVA: CLARO EMPLOYEES EXTRICATED

Rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador assist an injured person.

Two women, traveling with other colleagues from a telephone company, suffered injuries in different parts of their bodies after being trapped among the twisted iron of the vehicle they were traveling in with 5 other people, following a collision with the rear of a microbus unloading passengers.

This incident occurred around eight in the morning on the Army Boulevard at kilometer 9 near the Social Security Institute of Ilopango.

According to the report, the driver of the unit transporting employees of the telephone company failed to stop and collided with the rear of the microbus unloading passengers in the area.

Units from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador, using hydraulic equipment, managed to free the women who were traveling in the front seat alongside the driver, who was unharmed. The first victims who were traveling in the back of the telephone unit were assisted by a Social Security ambulance passing through the accident site.

The women who were trapped were identified as Alexandra Palacios, 27, and Jaquelin Navas, 20, both promoters, and were admitted to the Social Security Institute of Ilopango.

Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador transports one of the two trapped women.

COLONEL SIGIFREDO OCHOA PEREZ DIES IN ACCIDENT

 

Rescatistas trabajann en la liberación de las víctimas atrapadas.

Unidades de Rescate Vehicular y Médica de Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, seccional Ciudad Arce, trabajaron esta mañana en un aparatoso accidente de tránsito sobre la carretera que de Quezaltepeque conduce al Desvío de San Juan Opico, donde un automotor se estrelló contra la parte trasera de un camión que se encontraba estacionado.

El percance vial se registra cerca de las 6 de la mañana, cuando la señora Emma Micaela Friedeman de Martínez, de 64 años, perdió el control del automóvil tipo camioneta y se estrella contra la parte trasera del camión que se encontraba estacionado a la orilla de la carretera.

El Coronel Sigfrido Ochoa Pérez, de 80 años, viajaba como pasajero y quedó atrapado bajo el camión. Equipos especializados de Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador trabajaron con su equipo hidráulico para poder liberar al militar retirado para posteriormente ser llevado a un centro asistencial. Sin embargo, horas más tarde el militar retirado perdio la vida.

Mientras que, en el Oriente del país, los Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, seccional de Alegría, acuden a un accidente de tránsito sobre la Carretera Panamericana a la altura del Desvío La Periquera, donde un camión colisionó contra un poste del tendido eléctrico, dejando a Cristian Pérez, de 45 años, con lesiones por lo que fue llevada a un centro hospitalario.

Por otra parte, Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, acude al kilómetro 10 y medio de la Carretera Troncal del Norte, donde un hombre murió al ser arrollado por un autobús de la ruta 10, a la altura de Ciudad Delgado.

La víctima intentaba cruzar la artería y cuando el autobús transitaba atropellando al hombre quien perdió la vida instantáneamente.

Dos personas resultaron lesionadas entre ellas, el Cnel. Sigfrido Ochoa Pérez, de 80 años.
Comandos de Salvamento de El salvadaor, seccional Alegría llegan al lugar del accidente.
Una mujer resultó con lesiones.
Autobús de la Ruta 10 atropella a un hombre sobre la Carretera Troncal del Norte. Víctima perdió la vida. 
Dos personas resultaron lesionadas entre ellas, el Cnel. Sigfrido Ochoa Pérez, de 80 años.

1 DOA and 2 Injured in Comalapa

CDS arrived on scene to a female DOA and extricated 2 others that were trapped in a vehicle after it had crashed on the freeway to the International airport.

According to the driver, the passenger that expired had just left Rosales hospital and was heading home to La Paz. He also reported one of the tires had become flat causing loss of control of the vehicle around KM marker 13.

The team used hydraulic equipment to extricate the survivors, then packaged and secured them for transport to higher level of care. Forensic medicine attended to the deceased female.

The driver with stable vitals, is supported by Edgar Johnny Ramos from CDS  and Red Cross,

Passenger Extricated from Microbus

 

Our CDS Urban Rescue Squad responded to an accident which involved a route 42B Microbus collision. The incident involved an extrication of an injured female patient who was stabilized and transported to higher level of care. Led by Veteran Comando and Extrication expert Edgar Jhonny Ramos, the squad utilized Jaws of Life and other Hurst pneumatic tools provided by Washington State’s PXTEAM out of Puyallup. Others injured were also transported to local emergency departments.