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.
Michigan EMS leaders share the challenges in locating, extricating and transporting victims of snowmobile crashes
Accountability for displaying proper patient lifting and moving 鈥� whether it鈥檚 physically lifting patients or utilizing equipment 鈥� rests at the top of the agency
Firefighter Megan Warfield leapt into action to help a victim in an overturned car after being involved in a multi-vehicle crash 鈥� and gave birth 23 hours later
A tractor-trailer driver was killed after a train carrying coal derailed and fell onto a highway near Pueblo
One patient in the New Bedford pier collapse was transported to St. Luke鈥檚 Emergency Department by rescue boat
The man was transported to Bellevue Hospital with a leg injury after dropping 30 feet into the World Trade Center memorial pool
The Coast Guard is expected to investigate why the Grace Bailey鈥檚 mast snapped
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The FDNY and the NYPD are reviewing drones that can drop flotation devices, electromagnetic shark deterrents
Arcadia first responders had to extricate the man from the combine
Injured members of the 11th Airborne Division were transported by ground and air to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital
San Diego and Chula Vista FFs worked to extricate the driver after his truck went off a freeway ramp and overturned
Officials say the woman was struck by a vehicle and thrown into the path of the Cruise vehicle that ran over her
Beaufort EMS personnel had to move on foot during Tropical Storm Ophelia to reach a woman in labor
A worker was buried under 10 feet of dirt and concrete in a utility construction site collapse
Police had ended their pursuit of an aggressive, reckless driver minutes before the crash
A tanker crewmember from the MTM Dublin was swept overboard into rough seas near Boston Harbor
Travis Muller was cleaning out the bin when he became caught in the power sweep auger
鈥淢anagement of crush syndrome has to start in the rubble, in the hole, under the car, in the subway; treatment starts there.鈥�
Portland firefighters faced a car pinned partially underneath a semi in a jack-knife collision
Two patients were flown to hospitals after being removed from the rubble of the West Milford house
ALS care and a rope-rescue system helped save a cyclist having a severe allergic reaction in Manchester-by-the-Sea
R.I. Firefighter Anthony Colella and Mass. Firefighter Mark McCullough administered CPR for 10 minutes until the man regained consciousness
Palm Beach County Captain Eric Price and FF-Medic Sam Adler rendered aid until the flight made an emergency landing
The firefighter-medic and a nurse both separately stopped to assist the crash victims, all of whom had to be extricated from the vehicles
National Park Service officials said a climber fell from the Great White Wall and suffered traumatic injuries
A worker was repairing the Waterford system when he was swept several hundred feet down stream
A worker in South Holland suffered multiple crush injuries when the stone he was helping to unload fell
At least 300 people in Leominster were evacuated as officials faced flooding, building collapses
Officials in Leominster said residents near a dam should 鈥渋mmediately evacuate鈥� as a precaution
Four people, including two paramedics, were injured when a pickup truck collided with an ambulance
Two patients were extricated from the crash in Amador County
Investigators say the report on the Surfside collapse that killed 98 people in 2021 might be completed next year
When New Ellenton firefighters found Maria Duthie, she had a faint pulse, was barely breathing and was blue
