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.
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.”
Magen David Adom paramedics and EMTs are being targeted as they assist the victims of the terrorist attack
A second storm system moved into the state causing flooding, power outages and evacuations
Monica Laso yelled for help but no one heard her
PG&E had to secure power lines before Santa Clara County firefighters could begin extricating the patient
Elk City and Oklahoma City first responders utilized whole blood to save a worker pinned underneath a bulldozer
A 16-year-old driver escaped seriosu injury after his vehicle crashed into a High Point house
A rope rescue system was setup to retrieve a Colorado Springs worker that suffered a medical emergency and fell
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
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
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
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
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
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
