Category: rescue

Indian Rescuers Recover 27 Dead but No Sign of Dozens of Missing Villagers Swamped by Landslide

NEW DELHI—Hundreds of rescuers ended a four-day search for scores of people still missing after heavy monsoon rains triggered a massive landslide in a village in western India, an official said Sunday. The rescue teams recovered the bodies of 27 people killed in the Wednesday night landslide that hit the Raigadh district village of Irshalwadi,…


Florida Deputies Rescue Nonverbal Child With Autism From Snake-Infested Pond (VIDEO)

Body cameras from two Florida deputies have recorded the heroic rescue of a 4-year-old nonverbal boy with autism from a snake-infested pond. On July 11, at 10:30 a.m., two deputies from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), Deputy Arron Gibson and Deputy Clarissa Brady, were called separately to Valleyridge Court on the busy Thonotosassa Road to follow up on…


Florida Deputies Rescue Nonverbal Child With Autism From Snake-Infested Pond

Body cameras from two Florida deputies have recorded the heroic rescue of a 4-year-old nonverbal boy with autism from a snake-infested pond. On July 11, at 10:30 a.m., two deputies from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), Deputy Arron Gibson and Deputy Clarissa Brady, were called separately to Valleyridge Court on the busy Thonotosassa Road to follow up on…


Police Officer’s Bodycam Records Dramatic Rescue of a Woman Trapped Inside a Burning Car

Georgia police have released dramatic body camera footage of a woman being rescued from a burning car. Due to the quick actions of the sergeant, a life was potentially saved. On July 1, Sergeant Ashleigh Taylor of the Candler County Sheriff’s Department was called to respond to a vehicle crash on Highway 46. Sgt. Taylor arrived…


Bald Eagle Chick Meets Her ‘Adoptive Brother’ After He’s Rescued From a Fallen Nest

A bald eagle chick has welcomed an “adoptive brother” into her nest after the little chick’s nest fell, injuring the bird and separating him from his parents. On May 22, the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota reached out to eagle expert Lori Naumann, to say they’d found a 3-week-old bald eagle in a…


Spain Rescues 86 People Near Canary Island, but Scores of Migrants From Senegal Remain Missing

DAKAR, Senegal—Spanish authorities rescued 86 people Monday from a boat near the Canary Islands that appeared to be from Senegal, after an aid group reported that three boats from the African country went missing with 300 people aboard. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said it could not confirm that the rescued boat was one of the…


Horse Abandoned by Roadside Wins Silver at Horse Show With His New 13-Year-Old Owner

A horse that was abandoned by the side of the road after collapsing while pulling a cart has been adopted and has found a life worth living with a young horse rider. The pair have now made waves at their first horse show together. Seven-year-old standard-bred horse, Woody, was found by Garda Andrew Kiely of the…


Grateful Dog Waits in the Driveway Every Day for the Miner Who Rescued Her 2 Years Ago: VIDEO

A rescued dog has found an adorable way to thank her rescuer. Since being rescued from a mine site in West Virginia, she waits patiently on the driveway for him to come home from work and has done so every single day for two years. Tim Fitzwater, a state mine inspector for West Virginia, who…


Spanish Archaeologists Plan Rescue of 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician Shipwreck

MADRID—A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it from the sea before a storm destroys it forever. The eight-meter-long Mazarron II, named after the municipality in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia where it was found off the coast, is…


US Coast Guard Gives Update on Search and Rescue Effort for Missing Titanic Tourist Submarine

First Coast Guard District Captain Jamie Frederick holds a news conference at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 21 to give updates on the search and rescue efforts for the submersible with five people aboard that has been missing in deep waters off the coast of Canada since Sunday. …