search and rescue

The rescue effort for a six-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was swept away by a rushing creek is now a recovery mission, officials announced.

A small plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Francisco, California, after “flying erratically” Sunday evening.

Two hikers were recently rescued in British Columbia after following a non-existent trail shown on Google Maps, prompting warnings about the reliance on digital maps in wilderness areas.

A 38-year-old woman and her pet dog were rescued from a flash flood in Utah’s Mary Jane Canyon, thanks to the emergency satellite SOS feature on her iPhone. 

Just two of the 17 NGO migrant “taxis” operating in the Mediterranean Sea are certified as search and rescue vessels, despite all claiming they engage in “rescue” operations.

Heartwarming bodycam footage captured the moment a deputy found three Texas children in the Sam Houston National Forest on the morning of October 1 after they spent the night lost in the woods.

A woman trapped beneath the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo pleaded with rescuers to save her, but they were unable to reach her, according to Miami-Dade County Chief Alan Cominsky.

Former President Donald Trump recently made a $10,000 donation to the loved ones of the missing crew members from the Seacor Power.

A tiny mixed breed dog named Ash was loyal to his owner in freezing temperatures, saving his life as he tried to navigate the slopes of the Italian Alps.

A CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter aircrew rescued a hiker from freezing conditions in a mountainous region near the Arizona border with Mexico. The man suffered frostbite and hypothermia.

A family trapped above a 40-foot waterfall was rescued after hikers found an SOS message that the family sent in a water bottle.

A 22-month-old boy that went missing in Magoffin County, Kentucky, has been found alive after three days. He was located on a cliff edge near a strip mine just 2,000 feet from his home.

Border Patrol agents carried out a search and rescue operation for a man who was lost in the California desert. The agents were able to find the man and rush him to receive needed medical attention. He is expected to recover.

The last known search and rescue dog who helped find victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks has died near Houston. A sixteen-year-old Golden Retriever, Bretagne (pronounced Brittany) Corliss was greeted and saluted by approximately twenty-five firefighters when she arrived at a Cypress, Texas.

Search-and-rescue operations are under way off the coast of Hawaii after two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on a nighttime training mission collided, with six people aboard each aircraft.

Video of last week’s flash flood and mudslides north of Los Angeles shows the first hand account of several occupants inside a vehicle caught up in a sweeping flow of sludge on October 15.

Vallejo Police may seek state or federal charges against Denise Huskins and boyfriend Aaron Quinn after multiple government agencies, over 100 search and rescue personnel and significant resources were utilized in the search for Huskins before it was discovered that the whole affair may have been a hoax.