search and rescue

A once frail Labrador retriever puppy at an animal shelter has become a hero search-and-rescue dog after being adopted by his handler.

An international team of rescue workers from several countries on Thursday successfully rescued Venezuelan 43-year-old man Hernán Gil, who remained trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building for eight days after the deadly June 24 earthquakes.

A three year-old Venezuelan boy was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building by Jordanian emergency workers on Tuesday — six days after the devastating earthquakes that struck the South American nation.

The socialist government of Venezuela has documented 1,450 people killed by twin massive earthquakes last week, over 3,000 injured, and potentially upwards of 50,000 people missing as international rescue missions deploy to the South American nation.

A dog who suffered abuse and abandonment in the past has become a hero in Venezuela thanks to his work in helping find survivors among the ruins of collapsed buildings following this week’s deadly earthquakes.

Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday announced that VenApp, a state-owned social media platform once used by Nicolás Maduro to hunt anti-socialist dissidents, is being used to report missing individuals in the aftermath of Wednesday’s deadly twin earthquakes.

A family vacation to Japan ended in tragedy Saturday when a volunteer search-and-rescue team found the body of an Auburn University student in a forested mountain region after he had gone missing for a week.

President Donald Trump is calling the rescue of the second airman from the downed F-15E in Iran on Saturday an “Easter miracle.”

A pilot was safely recovered after an A-10 Warthog aircraft crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, news outlets reported, though it remains unclear what its mission was at the time of the incident.

More than a hundred volunteers, family members, and law enforcement personnel are widening the search for 19‑year‑old Camila Mendoza‑Olmos, who vanished from her Northwest San Antonio neighborhood on Christmas Eve.

A Chihuahua is being hailed a hero after showing rescuers where a man had fallen into a glacier in southern Switzerland.

An intense search is underway for a Pennsylvania grandmother who authorities believe has been trapped in a deep sinkhole connected to an unstable abandoned mine since Monday.

A 20-year-old hiker who went missing in the remote Canadian wilderness has been found alive after surviving on his own for a staggering 50 days, officials said.

A search is underway for two U.S. Navy pilots after their jet crashed near Washington State’s Mount Rainier, officials said.

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.

Search and rescue crews are looking for a missing military helicopter carrying five Marines, the U.S. Marine Corps said Wednesday.

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.

A teenage hiker who went missing at Golden Ears Park in Canada on Tuesday is safe after being missing for more than two days.

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.

A team of specialist search-and-rescue reservists in the Israeli military arrived on Sunday to help locate survivors and recover bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building.

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.