U.S. military forces at a base in Honduras provided Comayagua officials coping with a horrific prison fire with 400 body bags and two makeshift morgues among other emergency supplies, the military said Thursday evening.

The Pentagon’s Southern Command has an outpost in Honduras called Joint Task Force Bravo at the Soto Cano air base, staffed by about 400 U.S. military personnel and some locally hired civilian. The base is a relay site for humanitarian relief supplies to Central American nations, particularly during hurricane season, and assists drug interdiction flights year-round

This week, the U.S. military was called on to provide a different kind of humanitarian relief: Emergency medical supplies, including the body bags and refrigerator trucks, plus a generator, 35 cots, 10 units of blood, 400 surgical masks and 2,000 pairs of latex gloves, said U.S. Air Force Capt. Candice Allen said from Soto Cano. Military rations, bottles of water, flashlights and glow sticks.

Separately, the U.S. Embassy posted Ambassador Lisa Kubiske’s condolences to the Honduran people on its website.

Southcom spokesman Jose Ruiz said in Miami that the outpost provided the assistance at the request of Honduran government emergency response officials.