Rescue

A trapped dog was successfully rescued from a concrete drainage pipe in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after employees heard whimpering sounds. Animal shelter workers and public works teams freed the dog, now named Georgie, and are searching for his owners.

A Be'eri family survived the October 7 attacks by hiding under a palm tree and escaping a burning home, later finding their makeshift sukkah miraculously intact.

Emergency rescue volunteers Alex Shamis and Dr. Tarek recount their harrowing experiences rushing to the south, detailing life-altering moments of danger, survival, and sacrifice.

An Oregon fisherman pinned under a one-ton boulder used Siri and his wireless headphones to call 911, leading to a dramatic rescue by local police and the Coast Guard.

Rescue teams in western India saved a 70-year-old man trapped in a narrow 30-centimeter gap between two houses by breaking through a wall.

Explore how Lehava, Israel's elite firefighting special rescue unit, handles extreme subterranean and flood missions, saving lives from deep wells and raging storm waters.

A 15-year-old boy survived for over 62 hours clinging to an overturned boat in the Bering Sea after a fishing trip turned tragic, losing his brother and cousin.

A US weapons officer recounts his harrowing survival and rescue after his F-15E was shot down over Iran, detailed in a dramatic television broadcast.

Indonesian authorities have rescued 103 people from the passenger ship Virgo Transport 8 after it lost contact in the Java Sea with over 240 people on board.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed for F-15 crew members rescued in Iran to appear on '60 Minutes', sparking military security and political concerns.

The boy went for an introductory dive with his family, and later entered the water with a mask connected to a snorkel. His parents noticed he was unresponsive and pulled him from the water blue, without a pulse or breathing. The director of the ER at Yoseftal Hospital, who had just finished a dive in the area, heard the calls for help and ran to the scene. He performed massive resuscitation on the...

Emergency services were called on Friday to Menachem Begin Park (Darom Park) following reports of a child who went missing in the lake. It is believed the child entered the water with a friend, who later exited alone. The child was rescued by a bystander using a kayak and is currently receiving medical treatment.

The boat of two Mexican fishermen sank within minutes, leaving them drifting in the Pacific Ocean without food or water. They improvised a raft from a cooler and empty fuel tanks and were located after signaling a rescue plane by waving a piece of cloth. After more than 100 hours of survival, one of them declared he is retiring from fishing.

A 12-year-old girl from North Carolina was kidnapped in the middle of the night by her friend's uncle, who forced her to walk for hours in a wooded area. She took advantage of a moment of inattention, fled barefoot to the main road and whispered to a driver who stopped to help her: 'I was kidnapped'. The armed 38-year-old suspect was captured after an extensive manhunt and a bail of 2.5 million...

An extraordinary rescue in Mexico: Areste Cristano Valdez disappeared during a spearfishing trip. Rescuers, initially searching for a body, were stunned to find him alive deep within a cave system. He survived by drinking water from a stream and spending his time in prayer and sleep, losing all sense of time and believing he had been trapped for only three days.

Firefighters rescued a woman from a burning apartment on the first floor of an eight-story residential building in Karmiel. Five firefighting and rescue teams from the Central Galilee station were dispatched to the scene following a report to the 102 emergency center.

A family vacation in Thailand turned into a harrowing survival ordeal: a 50-year-old French father and his two sons, aged five and seven, spent over 16 hours adrift at sea after their rented jet ski broke down off the coast of Koh Samui.

A massive fire trapped a woman on the windowsill of an 11th-floor apartment in a high-rise building. Firefighters arriving at the scene discovered that their rescue ladder could not reach the height of the apartment. As the building structure began to collapse, the woman made a desperate leap into the rescue basket. Firefighters caught her at the last possible second, narrowly avoiding a tragedy.

The three were rescued from the apartment in Herzliya and evacuated to the hospital in light condition. Fire investigators determined the source of the fire. The Fire and Rescue Authority warns: placing a computer on a sofa or bed may block ventilation openings and cause overheating.

A fire broke out in a third-floor apartment in Eilat, leaving a resident in life-threatening danger. Chief Sergeant Yaakov Dorni and his team broke down the steel door, and after locating the victim, Dorni carried him on his shoulder down three flights of stairs to safety.

The call was received in the afternoon at the Yedidim dispatch center, following a blow the woman sustained from a dresser in her home on HaGiborim Street in Netivot. Using specialized equipment, the volunteer managed to free the finger from the ring.

At the height of the swimming season, one of the Kinneret's most popular beaches was closed due to extreme overcrowding. Meanwhile, lifeguards prevented a tragedy by rescuing a paddleboarder who had been swept 590 meters offshore by strong winds.

Fire and rescue teams from the Ayalon station conducted searches in the building to rule out trapped individuals, during which they identified a pair of parents and three children trapped in an apartment on the floor where the fire started. The firefighters safely rescued the trapped individuals using rescue masks under smoke conditions. A total of six rescued individuals were transferred for...

A lifeguard who was called to Shikmim Beach located the two at a distance of more than 600 meters from the shore and returned them safely • The Kinneret Cities Association warns: enter the water only at designated beaches and avoid the windy hours.

An extraordinary medical case in an Indiana emergency room saw a husband carrying his wife upside down by her legs to keep her alive. This improvised rescue was the only way to maintain the connection of her disconnected pacemaker lead until surgery.