NEW COMANDOS RESCUERS
A group of 25 new rescuers received their diplomas last Sunday at the headquarters of Comandos de Salvamento, after three months of rigorous training that forms part of the Vertical Rescue course. Over several weekends,…
Reports tagged
Search & Rescue
BABY DIED ALONGSIDE HIS BURIED PARENTS
Comandos de Salvamento de El Congo assisted in the rescue efforts for three people who lost their lives when the wall of their home collapsed. The residence was located in Barrio El Tránsito, Colonia Amita…
THEY MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVE; COMANDOS CARRIES OUT VICTIM RESCUE
Two people experienced moments of anguish Thursday night when the minibus in which they were traveling toward the East along the prolongation of Bulevar Constitución crashed into a tractor-trailer. Rescue units from Comandos de Salvamento…
YOUNG COMANDOS MOTORIST IN SERIOUS CONDITION AT HOSPITAL ROSALES
Brayn Coreas, 23, a young volunteer with Comandos de Salvamento, responded to an emergency call about a traffic accident at kilometer 22½ of the Pan-American Highway, near San Pedro Perulapán. He and three other rescuers…
COUPLE DIES BURIED IN SAN MARCOS
Una pareja de esposos murió soterrada luego que muro soterró su vivienda en la colonia Buena Vista en San Marcos, San Salvador. Las víctimas fueron identificadas como René Alexander Morán de 28 años y Carmen…
COMANDOS RESCUES MAN AFTER FLOOR OF HIS HOUSE COLLAPSES
Comandos de Salvamento rescued Geovani Artiga Lemus, 42, tonight after he suffered injuries to his lower limbs when he became trapped in mud as the floor of his home collapsed. The home is located on…
CADAVER LOCATED IN CIUDAD ARCE
With a prayer asking for protection for the volunteers from the various rescue agencies, including Comandos de Salvamento, who this day resumed the search for a man who, on the night of last Friday, jumped…
Missing Person Search
Report and photos by Carlos “Kamala” Fuentes.
COMANDOS RECEIVES DONATION FROM RESCUE TASK FORCE
Jim Mcneely, a member of Rescue Task Force from the State of Georgia, United States, arrives at Comandos de Salvamento for the second time to deliver an important donation that will be very useful to…
RESCUE OF PERSON TRAPPED IN ACCIDENT
The driver of a vehicle experienced moments of anguish this morning after crashing into a trailer truck at kilometer 36.5 of the old highway leading from San Salvador to Santa Ana. Comandos de Salvamento arrived…
LINE OF DUTY DEATH: FIRST RESPONDER HONORED
This last April, CDS experienced another LODD, Line of Duty Death with Moisés Abraham Orellana trying to rescue two people taken by a riptide at Majahual beach in La Libertad. The youth was very popular…
LOS COMANDOS Documentary
We thank Joshua Bennett and Juliana Schatz Preston for creating this documentary short that will give the viewer an honest portrait of the work we do in El Salvador. Some viewer discretion is advised since…
