Search and Rescue
Amid the grief and devastation of survivors, many are sharing the courageous efforts of first responders, fellow residents, family members and even camp counselors who put their lives on the line to save others
A drone can be a tremendous tool for managing risks while units are en route to calls for service
Tips for the unique challenges of accessing and extricating patients from recreational trails
AMR reach and treat team and mountain rescue volunteers find and extricate 62-year-old man with head injury
Rescue workers found him after a four-day search; it appears he suffered a fatal head injury from a fall while hiking
Search in the Java sea is underway for plane that made last communication 42 minutes after takeoff
Search ends with discovery of autistic child in pond; drowning determined to be the cause of death
They鈥檙e using side-scan sonar and cold water divers for the recovery effort after the three went missing on a fishing trip
Police, ambulance crew assist family in searching for and locating boys trapped for hours in cold and snow
Rescuers pulled eight people out of the apartment building alive, and are searching through the rubble for more survivors
A stampede at a school during the quake injured 42 children
A police officer and the woman鈥檚 family used an iPad to pinpoint where her iPhone was located
鈥淩escuers had to cross a crumbling rock ledge that was only 10 inches in some places with packs on, in the dark, with only headlamps.鈥�
Although the search ended in April after 42 bodies were found, workers had been screening debris for the body of 44-year-old Molly Kristine 鈥淜ris鈥� Regelbrugge
Mike Herdman鈥檚 official cause of death was listed as blunt-force injuries caused by falling from a cliff
A 61-year-old search and rescue volunteer fell to his death while trying to rescue a 25-year-old hiker who had fallen 100 feet
Mike Herdman鈥檚 body was spotted by a helicopter search crew; officials say he may have tried to climb a cliff in the dark and fell
Rescue workers used gas cutters, iron rods and shovels to reach those trapped in the rubble
Chris and Kelly also talk about the 911 dispatcher who has come under fire for her brusque replies to a woman who called to report a rape
Parks can grant permits for drone flights for other purposes like research, search and rescue and firefighting
Officials said the rescue effort for Mike Herdman will be scaled back after nine days of searching
Firefighter Mike Herdman was last seen Friday while hiking with a friend when he went running after his dog and disappeared
Mike Herdman, 34, was hiking with a friend when he went running after his dog and disappeared
Rescuers heard people shouting for help and are searching for those missing
A bear was running across a road that sent a pickup into a creek; she floated several miles down fast-moving water
The sheriff said the slide remains to unstable for searchers to continue
Eighty searchers from nearly a dozen agencies scoured the 27,000-acre site for two days before they were found unhurt
As soon as the avalanche occurred, rescuers, guides and climbers rushed to help, and all other climbing was suspended
Rescue workers pulled out 12 bodies from under mounds of snow and ice and were searching for the three missing guides
Only three of those killed in the March 22 disaster are still unidentified; the missing list has gone down to 12 from 13
The number of confirmed dead increased from 18 to 21; searchers are worried about dysentery, tetanus and contamination
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