Rescue
The rescue topic covers a range of tactical considerations for performing rescues or after natural disasters. Use this page to find tips all types of rescue in fire and EMS.
“Just try to wrap your thoughts around having 3, 4, 5, 10 gunshot wound patients thrown at you – at one or two medics with one ambulance.”
Magen David Adom paramedics and EMTs are being targeted as they assist the victims of the terrorist attack
“Management of crush syndrome has to start in the rubble, in the hole, under the car, in the subway; treatment starts there.”
A group of hikers spotted the pickup truck down a Los Angeles County canyon
Paramedics Julie Purick and Davin Eshelman were exposed to respiratory injuries that were “secondary to the inhalation of hot smoke and gas,” the union said
Deputy Cory Patterson, who witnessed a man drive into a fence, broke into the man’s locked car and began administering lifesaving care immediately
First responders were called out to rescue anglers after an ice chunk broke off from the bank of the Upper Red Lake
Tom Jansen was able to personally thank the EMTs from the new Norway department that responded to his emergency
New Castle County paramedics worked with several to extricate, treat several patients
First responders, residents of San Luis Obispo County faced flooding as high surf pounded the coast
First responders in Westborough use airbags, cribbing to lift the 53-foot-long box trailer off the victim
A woman is expected to survive after she and a man were rescued by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel
Matthew Reum was pinned inside his pickup truck underneath an I-94 bridge, surviving on rainwater
First responders in Orleans were dispatched to a man trapped under a piece of heavy machinery at a construction company
First responders from several agencies worked to save a man trapped by rocks along a San Diego beach
Seven departments were involved in locating, treating and transporting the 72-year-old hunter in cardiac arrest
A helicopter hoist rescue was used to bring the driver up from a Sonoma County ravine
The Beaver County Search and Rescue team hiked 45 minutes in the dark to reach the mine
First responders worked to save a worker trapped inside a concrete hopper in Paulding County
Thousands from Virginia through New England lost power as heavy rain fell
First responders and technical rescue crews north of Concho worked to recover the rider and their vehicle
A driver was killed after their car fell from the fourth floor of the Grandview Medical Center parking garage
Matthews Fire & EMS said the victims were in “critical, but stable condition”
Lynchburg first responders faced a car, 50 feet down an embankment, upside down on railroad tracks
The man was rescued 4 miles from where he first called rescuers and spent over an hour in the water, Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue said
A Philadelphia firefighter and two police officers were among seven people who were injured in the fire
First responders went beyond the call of duty, pulling animals from sinkholes, frozen ponds and bear dens
A vacuum truck was used to help rescue a man almost completely buried in corn inside the Henryville grain bin
A carnival crisis, cliffhangers, underground escapes and fiery extractions: First responders answered the call in 2023
Parker County Hospital District paramedics faced an amputation and having to perform bilateral finger thoracostomies
Two vehicles ended up overturned inside a Boston Market in Saugus
The body of an 11-year-old girl was recovered from the debris in Wrangell
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