EL SAL JULY/AUG 2001
COMANDOS DE SALVAMENTO
http://www.salvamento.org

Bus accident at Los chorros highway
Sunday 29 de Julio 2001

A bus ran off the road, hit a tree, and dropped 100 meters into a river below at 11pm.
WE were called.
I and three other comandos had to climb down and wade up through the river almost 150 yards. It was raining hard.

We arrived at the scene and I found the driver still in his seat outside the bus, fallecido. A small child was at his side barely conscious. We stabilized the child with what we had, no backboards, so we used a bus seat! and hiked the child up the mountain.

There were two other [fallecidos[ besides the driver.
We took the driver up in a litter, and waited or other grupos to rescue the others.

The next day I found out that the driver was the father of the kid.

His mother is in stable condition, she is one of the señoras below.

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Comando taking vitals

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Son of driver, we are making back support with a bus seat.

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Packing the child up the cliff,me in back.

my fiancé monitored the kid on the way to Hospital Bloom in the COMANDOS ambulance,
she said the child did not look good when they arrived at Bloom, The child is still on Life support.
Got the last body out at 3:00am.
Wet and tired, me an wen got a ride back to the suegras house, took a shower and fell asleep.

THANKS FOR HEADLAMP MOM!

ixta NREMT