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Firefighters in Catacamas, Olancho, rescued 22-year-old Meyling Griselda Baca Vallejo after her arm became trapped in an industrial tortilla-making machine; she was taken to a hospital for emergency care.

Honduras's fire department has recorded 600 snake sightings and rescues in 2026 to date, according to the agency's own figures.

Firefighters in Tegucigalpa used a vertical rescue operation to safely evacuate a 61-year-old man from the second floor of a home in the Payaquí neighborhood after he sustained a suspected femur fracture and could not use conventional exits.

A 35-year-old woman went into labor on a bus traveling the Patuca–Juticalpa route near Cayo Blanco; firefighters provided emergency care and transported her and her newborn daughter to San Francisco Hospital for observation.

A 22-year-old man in Yoro climbed onto a bridge over the Machigua River on Friday morning; firefighters talked him to safety and turned him over to his mother after psychological support.