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.
“Management of crush syndrome has to start in the rubble, in the hole, under the car, in the subway; treatment starts there.”
Firefighter-Paramedic Mike Anderson shares what it was like having his work life chronicled for NBC’s new show – and the playful razzing that followed
Why EMS should use preparatory commands
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
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”
