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Mental Health, Rescue

Mountain Recovery: Red Cross Collaboration

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Puerto Colaboración

EMS Recovery crews from CDS and Salvadoran Red Cross recover the body of a female that committed suicide by jumping off the face of Puerta de Diablo, south of San Salvador. Recovery efforts took a long time due to the 30 meter height of the precipice.

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Redacción Diario Co Latino report Translation by Marco Forty year old Delhi Mabel de Montes took her own life this Thursday when she jumped off the highest cliff of the Devil’s door at Los Planes de Renderos. According to preliminary reports from search and recovery teams, the woman was a nurse at the psychiatric hospital and is from Tonacatepeque. Circumstances that led to the suicide remain unknown.  The National Civilian Police are investigating a motive. However, it is known that the sixteen year old daughter of Delmi was disappeared and this circumstance made her very depressed. EMS crews have informed that before jumping off the ledge, she had called friends at work to inform them of her decision to take her own life. This Friday, recovery teams from the Red Cross, Comandos de Salvamento and the PNC worked since 10 am to recover the cadaver that was in a difficult zone to access.

Rescue

Rescue: Antiguo Base

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CDS EMTs from the Antiguo Cuscatlán base rescue patient Ángela Maldonado who was victim of a traffic accident on the Central American Highway.  National firefighters and CDS worked together in the extrication.  The patients car was hit by another car causing a second impact against a tree.

Photo Credit: Víctor Peña
Photo courtesy of La Prensa Grafica.

First Aid, Rescue

Death Caused by 40 Meter Fall

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Comandos UDR rescate Cadaver

Members of CDS Search and Rescue Unit (UDR) recover the cadaver of a person that was found below a bridge that is 40 meters high. The bridge is located at the Venezuela Blvd and Cuscatlan Avenue. The body was found by the National Civilian Police at about 5:30am this morning. The person is estimated to be about thirty years old and presented with multiple fractures of the upper and lower limbs as well as damage to the parietal and occipital region of the skull. The police report he was killed by being thrown off the bridge by unknown assailants.

Unidad de Rescate El Salvador