Search and Rescue

Efforts by FDs, EMS agencies, police departments, and the state's search and rescue task moved from heat-imaging devices and drones to heavy machinery

The storm devastated the town of Rolling Fork, including the local hospital, which was forced to transfer patients to other medical centers

Video captures the moment an explosion sent flames and smoke billowing into the street as firefighters operate at a building fire in downtown Buffalo

Animal bites and envenomations pose some interesting challenges to EMS providers

USA-01 and USA-2 members were thanked by the U.S. secretary of state and welcomed home by loved ones

USA-01 filled a plane with its crewmembers, equipment and dogs

Hopes of finding more survivors in Syria, Turkey begin to fade

Los Angeles County is sending dozens of search-and-rescue crewmembers, along with six search dogs and three structural engineers

Nearly 100 Los Angeles County firefighters and structural engineers and a half-dozen specially trained dogs were sent to Turkey to help with rescue efforts

Upton police, fire and EMS members and mutual aid partners carried the man out of a wooded area and transported him to a hospital

A tornado hit Autauga County, Ala., where 6 people died, at least a dozen injured people were transported to hospitals, and crews have searching for survivors

Firefighters have searched for a missing child and conducted rescues

San Bernardino firefighter-medics descended and began treating the patient, and their colleagues set up a rope system to bring them all back up

As they alerted firefighters to the blaze, the EMTs and medics rescued a man and four dogs and searched for a mother and baby

Mayday training, preplanning, mutual-aid agreements and scene size-ups emerge as common themes in major incidents