Rescue

The rescue resource page covers a range of tactical considerations for performing technical rescues and rescue operations on the fireground. Learn lessons learned from mayday events involving firefighter rescues; news about civilian rescues, like one captain’s controversial solo rescue; tips for managing technical rescue operations – rope, confined space, water, trench, vehicle/machinery, structural, and wilderness rescue; rescue incidents related to natural disasters and other major events; and even animal rescues and some rather odd rescues, like people stuck in trees, machine machines or other unique spots that require fire service intervention.

Full list of Rescue results

Off-duty Texas FF-EMT seriously injured rescuing person from fire
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Granite Shoals Firefighter-EMT Dustin Short sustained lung injuries after going into a burning building to save a trapped victim
Off-duty NY FFs rescue boy from rip current
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North Patchogue Firefighters Justin Owen and Steven Welsh managed to pull the 12-year-old out of the water at Smith Point Beach
Video: Boston FFs rescue workers dangling from 12th floor of high-rise
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Firefighters managed to pull the workers through two windows after a scaffold malfunction left them stranded
Seattle firefighters respond to seaplane crash in Lake Washington
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The plane's occupants survived; fire crews placed containment boom to capture fuel in water
Last surviving responder to 1963 plane crash dies
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Firefighter Richard Ziegler, 83, rescued 12 people from the wreckage of Mohawk Airlines Flight 121
Man rescued from storm drain, tells FFs he wandered sewers for 3 days
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Firefighter spent about 30 minutes removing the man from the drain at an industrial park
W.Va. FF dies at house fire
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Officials say Iaeger Firefighter Russell Roberson began feeling sick while trying to stop someone from reentering the burning home
2 New Orleans FFs injured battling 4-alarm fire at French Quarter hotel
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One firefighter was overcome by smoke while ascending an interior stairwell; the other was rescued via a fifth-floor window
Video: Officer rescues 3 after dad drives off cliff with toddlers
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K-9 Officer Jonathan Wiese used a 100-foot leash to lower himself down the cliff and rescue the father and 2-year-old twins from the water
Man reunites with rescuers after bus crash left him paralyzed
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Doug Haney read a thank you letter to the fire-rescue and medical flight crews that saved him after the four-vehicle crash
Photo of the Week: Care amidst chaos
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This week's Photo of the Week comes from the Salt Lake City Fire Department, showing how firefighters are caring for anyone who needs help during this week's protests. "Salt Lake City Firefighters...
Conn. FF witnesses crash scene, rescues elderly man
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Hawleyville Volunteer Firefighter Reese Moffett stopped to assist the injured driver until an engine and EMS arrived
10 fire facts to share with cops
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Help police officers better understand the environment if they become trapped in a fire or find themselves in a tactical situation involving fire
Calif. city to begin billing homeowners' insurance for response
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The Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District will soon begin billing people or their insurance companies when firefighters respond to vehicle fires, crashes, water rescues, hazmat calls and other rescue events
10K evacuated, state of emergency declared after Mich. dam break
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Floodwaters rose after the breach of a trouble dam on the Tittabawassee River; Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called the major flooding "a historic event"
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