Around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2014, my phone rang and I was called in to help rescue three Boy Scouts and two of their leaders who had become lost, then stranded on a rock face, during a hike on ...

SEATTLE — On Thursday, crews from the Seattle Fire Department answered calls for a rope rescue in a high-rise building near the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Union Street in Seattle.

She told rescuers that she had set out in a metal boat with about 45 others, and that she had been in contact with two other people until two days before the rescue, when the contact was broken.

Skiers, climbers, cyclists and even mushroom-pickers face surprising new risks in the mountains – and so do those who rescue them ... are entangled in their ropes. One is hanging from the ...

These are all located near creeks and the riverside and are prone to flooding during typhoons. She said the barangays were given fiberglass boats, rescue life vests, ring buoys, water ropes, rescue ...