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.
Michigan EMS leaders share the challenges in locating, extricating and transporting victims of snowmobile crashes
Accountability for displaying proper patient lifting and moving – whether it’s physically lifting patients or utilizing equipment – rests at the top of the agency
Firefighter Megan Warfield leapt into action to help a victim in an overturned car after being involved in a multi-vehicle crash – and gave birth 23 hours later
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
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