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.
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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
The driver’s helmet likely saved their life in the fall, La Plata County Search and Rescue said
Rescue crews found the body of a girl in an initial search and late Tuesday the bodies of two adults were found by a drone operator
The hiker was “very hypothermic” but alive when found by rescuers with the Chaffee County Search and Rescue North team
A Portland streetcar driver and passenger were injured in a collision with a light rail train
Marcellus Ambulance personnel faced a driver pinned upside down in a burning vehicle
Rescuers in Chaffee County were sent to rescue an ill-prepared hiker trapped by a snowstorm
Two people had to be extricated from the car after both vehicles crashed into a Long Beach restaurant
First responders in Swansea had to stabilize the house before removing the car
Two workers were killed when the 11-story abandoned building collapsed while being prepared for demolition
A gas explosion collapsed part of a multi-family structure in Wappingers Falls
Martin County Judge Executive Lon Lafferty said they have not had any communication with the second worker in the coal plant collapse
Croton-on-Hudson first responders were initially unable to reach the injured hiker, who fell 50 feet down an embankment, because the trail was washed out
One worker is dead and another trapped in the collapse of an 11-story coal plant in Martin County
Vallejo first responders successfully removed the man from the fence spike
Rescuers are in contact with one worker buried in the collapse of a multi-story plant in Martin County
A rope rescue system was used to recover the worker inside the Holly Sugar Plant in Tracy
First responders safely moved the patient down a rugged trail on Lookout Mountain
A coordinated effort involving several departments saved a construction worker pinned by a foundation collapse
Firefighters and a patient fell to the ground when the roof of the Burlington structure collapsed
A vehicle collided with a King County Metro bus, sending it into a building in the Belltown neighborhood
