Search and Rescue
The year was full of disaster responses but also brought impressive extrications, off-duty saves, helpful Boy Scouts and a rampaging camel
Paid and volunteer firefighters worked together to answer hundreds of calls for rescues
What to expect as task forces deploy to hurricane ravaged areas
Pennington County Search and Rescue is composed of members with a wide variety of backgrounds, experience and knowledge
The Beaver County Search and Rescue team hiked 45 minutes in the dark to reach the mine
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 carnival crisis, cliffhangers, underground escapes and fiery extractions: First responders answered the call in 2023
The driver’s helmet likely saved their life in the fall, La Plata County Search and Rescue said
K-9 Drogon is a member of South Dakota Task Force 1, which is a statewide emergency resource, available for call-out 24/7
The hiker was “very hypothermic” but alive when found by rescuers with the Chaffee County Search and Rescue North team
Rescuers in Chaffee County were sent to rescue an ill-prepared hiker trapped by a snowstorm
USAR TF-8’s cattle dog, Staffordshire bull terrier mix works to rescue live victims
Two workers were killed when the 11-story abandoned building collapsed while being prepared for demolition
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
The injured hiker was stuck in a narrow gap in the Thunder Canyon Cave and was unable to rescued by her friends
One patient suffered life-threatening injuries after falling into a mine shaft in Kern County
“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
ALS care and a rope-rescue system helped save a cyclist having a severe allergic reaction in Manchester-by-the-Sea
National Park Service officials said a climber fell from the Great White Wall and suffered traumatic injuries
Investigators say the report on the Surfside collapse that killed 98 people in 2021 might be completed next year
Aviators worked with local first responders in two daring rescues inside Box Elder Canyon
Dogs and handlers work a rotating schedule in the rubble to find closure for families
Rescue teams faced back-to-back rescues in the Mt. Washington State Park
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Gaston County first responders found the teen, missing since Wednesday, on a Crowders Mountain cliff
The Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office said rescuers worked across difficult terrain into the night to safely package and remove the patient
First responders faced difficult terrain while working together to reach, package and remove an unconscious, bleeding patient
Officials in Upper Makefield say they will change their operations to include an underwater search by the weekend
SAR crews from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut were among those helping to get to towns that have been unreachable
Debris found during the search for the vessel “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger
