Tag: rescues
Mount Everest: Sherpa rescues climbers from death zone (video)
Watch the video: Sherpa straps mountaineer on his back and saves him from “death zone”. A special kind of high-altitude rescue: A Malaysian mountaineer on Mount Everest only survived because…
Animal rescues: This is how much it can cost when your four-legged friend is in need
Animal rescue is one of the tasks of the fire brigade, as is rescuing people from emergencies or fighting fires. Across Germany, firefighters turn out dozens of times a day…
Bodycam filming: Baby dolphin in distress: Police officer rescues young animal off the Florida coast
An off-duty police officer was fishing off the Florida coast when the man saw a baby dolphin in distress swimming in the water. A colleague’s bodycam films how the little…
‘Ocean Viking’ ambulance ship rescues 153 adrift refugees
Three rescues in just seven hours. The “Ocean Viking”, the ambulance ship of SOS Méditerranée, rescued 153 refugees on Friday in the central Mediterranean, in the Maltese search area, AFP…
College boy rescues school bus after driver collapses
A 13-year-old American schoolboy, a passenger on a bus full of students, managed to avoid a potentially tragic accident by stopping the vehicle whose driver had passed out at the…
Mediterranean Sea: Italy’s Coast Guard rescues 600 migrants from a fishing boat
Mediterranean Sea Italy’s coast guard rescues 600 migrants from fishing boat Many migrants dare to cross from North Africa to Europe on unseaworthy boats. photo © Giacomo Zorzi/Seawatch.org/AP/dpa Hundreds of…
Mountain rescue rescues family from 1250 meters – Bavaria
The mountain rescue rescued a family of five from the Hochkalter in Upper Bavaria. The vacationers from North Rhine-Westphalia had lost their way in the snow on Monday on the…
Mediterranean: Italian Coast Guard rescues 1,200 migrants
Mediterranean Sea Italian Coast Guard rescues 1,200 migrants from two fishing boats Pictures of the Italian coast guard, who had to save almost 1,200 people on just two fishing boats…
MSF ship rescues 440 migrants in storm
THE Geo Barents, a humanitarian ship of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), rescued 440 migrants in distress on Tuesday on board a boat in international waters off Malta, the NGO announced.…
The “Ocean Viking” rescues 92 migrants off the coast of Libya
Among the evacuees are “9 women and around 40 unaccompanied minors”, said SOS Méditerranée. Saturday afternoon, the ambulance ship ocean vikingchartered by this humanitarian NGO located in Marseille, rescued 92…