Recovery and Rescue Extraction
Comandos de Salvamento works in extracting 45 yo Belarmino Galdamez who was entangled in his vehicle after crashing head on into a semi truck at KM 18 north of San Salvador on the Troncal del…
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Vehicle Rescue
Double Extrication
The CDS extrication unit was called out at 1:40am Sunday August 21 when two people crashed their car plates P 586-145, against a wall on antigua street in Antiguo Cuscatlán, a neighborhood in the western…
Pedestrian Injured
23 yo Jesús Adalberto Rivas presented with various injuries on his lower extremities after being hit by a car this last August 18th along Concepción street in San Salvador. EMS members offered basic first aid…
Car Out of Control Injures Pedestrian
CAR FLIPS OVER ESCAPING ROUTE 29 BUS 43 yo Ana Silvia Ramírez was injured when a car sped off the road running her over along 22 ave. N. and Juan Pablo II near the route…
Saying Goodbye to an Unknown Hero
The funeral service of Carlos took place today at Concepcion church. Friends and close family members paid their respects and said farewell to this kind gentleman that started as a basic EMT with our agency in the 1980s. He served…
Accident on Ave. Juan Pablo II
FOUR-VEHICLE ACCIDENT WITH INJURIES. An accident involving four motor vehicles occurred at six o’clock in the morning this Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at the corner of Alameda Juan Pablo II and 10a Avenida Norte, in…
Bystander Records MVA
A microbus from route 11 was involved in an MVA with a truck, plates- N14-543 and a third vehicle. The event took place at Avenida Cuba y Calle Darío González in San Jacinto. A bystander…
Comandos in the Associated Foreign Press
Credit: AFP Photos: CDS Translation: Marco Comandos de Salvamento, an EMS agency with limited resources but with courage and dedication, reports 50 years of humanitarian work in El Salvador that sometimes becomes dangerous because of…
Bus Vs. 18 Wheeler
Comandos de Salvamento attended to victims involved in a MVA located at KM.27.5 at ATEOS, highway to Sonsonate where a bus with plates AB 746 38 was involved in the MVA with a semi truck…
Decade of Road Safety
THE DECADE OF ROAD SAFETY With a simulation accident that culminated in the public presentation throughout “Launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020” which aims to reduce traffic accidents and thousands of…
Into Oncoming Traffic
ANOTHER “INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC” ACCIDENT. Comandos EMS volunteers responded to a MVA located at Bulevar Tutunichapa and la 5a. Av. Norte inn Sal Salvador this afternoon. The accident happened due to a vehicle with licence…
Multi Casualty MVA
TWENTY INJURED IN MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT EMT’s from Comandos de Salvamento attended to 20 adult and children patients that were injured in a traffic accident at KM 5.5 on Highway Troncal del Norte, north of…
