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.
First responders went beyond the call of duty, pulling animals from sinkholes, frozen ponds and bear dens
A carnival crisis, cliffhangers, underground escapes and fiery extractions: First responders answered the call in 2023
“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.”
People were trapped on a mile-long floe about a half-mile off Catawba Island State Park
First responders in Maury County used log chains, two straps to keep the pickup from falling into the river
Rainfall first hit Los Angeles and then moved south, trapping people in homes and vehicles
Two of the four patients were pinned inside the car after they tried to go around a railroad crossing in Harvey
Search and rescue team members in Killington hiked five miles to find the lost individuals
Austin -Travis County EMS personnel treated the man, and 17 others for hypothermia
Paramedics faced a complex rescue on a popular trail near Cajon Pass
One simple trick we can take from our fire service friends to stabilize a vehicle
Two people were injured after a eucalyptus tree fell on five vehicles in Golden Gate Park
Help keep you, your crew and your patient safe at motor vehicle collision scenes
A speeding SUV went off the road and became stuck, off the ground, between trees in the Longmeadow crash
A search and rescue team hiked in to reach the teen in the Ventana Wilderness
Matthew Reum was trapped for six days in his truck, subsisting on rainwater
A rescue boat capsized as first responders in Transylvania County tried to reach people in flood waters
A person inside a dumpster found themselves trapped inside a garbage truck in Escambia County
Heavy rain, flooding led to 27 water rescues in Delaware County
A section of a boom truck collapsed while workers in Manhattan were moving rebar
Rescuers spent five hours digging the plumber out from a collapse at a National City shopping mall
A construction crew found the unconscious man approximately 80 feet up the crane at the Durham site
Four people were trapped inside after their car snapped a utility pole and came to rest against the roof of a house in Pulaski.
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
