EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A busy weekend continued for the Sunland Park Fire Department.
Firefighters assisted with a body recovery operation in the desert near mile marker 3 on Strauss Road in Dona Ana County, according to the department’s Twitter acount. The call came in just before 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Earlier this weekend, Sunland Park Fire personnel found and rescued a woman who had been stranded out in the desert for about seven hours on Saturday, June 3, according to the department’s Twitter account.
The 18-year-old woman was rescued in the desert area near Peak Behavioral Health, near the 5000 block of McNutt Road. She was suffering from heatstroke and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, according to the department.
Sunland Park Fire officials did not say if woman was a migrant.
