All news on the topic: Rescue

Lukas McClish, 34, survived by drinking water out of his boot after getting lost for ten days after what began as a three-hour trek through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in California

The Exmouth and Torbay RNLI lifeboats were launched after three fishermen were forced to abandon their sinking trawler and take to a life raft in the early hours of this morning

John Edward Jones was an experienced explorer when he embarked on an unmapped cave expedition in Utah in 2009, which tragically ended with his body sealed inside forever

A labrador named Luke was heroically saved this week by his owner's neighbor Russ Walker after the man descended into a freezing pond

The tour party was reportedly made up of a three adults - who were said to be members of the same family - and two guides, who became stuck in the Krizna Jama cave on Saturday when water levels rose

In a daring nighttime operation, Inyo County Search and Rescue successfully freed a hiker trapped for seven hours beneath a massive boulder in the Inyo Mountains

Tom Robinson, 24, from Brisbane, was bidding to cross the Pacific to Australia on a homemade wooden rowing boat when he got into difficulty and was rescued by a cruise ship

Boubakar Toure, 27, from Gambia, and Godstime Erheneden, 30, heard the bus smash through a safety rail and plunge down a gorge in Venice and immediately raced to the scene to try rescue those trapped inside the burning vehicle

Four Vietnamese and two Iraqi women spent more than 10 hours in the cramped, freezing truck, before a BBC reporter helped intercept and rescue their lorry

It has taken days to bring Mark Dickey to the surface since rescuers anticipate he will have to stop and rest frequently at camps set up along the way in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains

A distressed fisherman was found clinging to a cooler lid by US Army Mariners who rescued the man who had spent hours at sea after his boat had capsized miles from land

A police officer launched into action after witnessing a pickup truck plunge into a Pennsylvania river. He swam out and saved the young girl before guiding her father back to shore

American researcher Mark Dickey became trapped nearly 1,000 metres below the entrance of Morca cave in Turkey's Taurus Mountains after suffering stomach bleeding

The coastal visitors found themselves cut off by rising tides in West Scar, Flamborough, and needed help from the coastguard rescue team to make it safely back to the beach

The cable car had been carrying six children and two adults, thought to be teachers, to their school in the remote mountainous region of Battagram, 120 miles north of Islamabad, when two of the cables snapped

Pen Farthing, 54, and his "Operation Ark" managed to rescue 200 cats and dogs from the chaos of Kabul as the Taliban took control in August 2021 after the US and NATO forces withdrew

A girl was seen being swept out to sea at Ilfracombe Harbour in Devon after playing on the sea front before onlookers battle the waves at high tide to reach her

Leala Vanbest just wanted to have as much fun as her daughter when she jumped into a baby swing in Essex. But she didn't think that one hour later she'd be cut out by four laughing firefighters

A college student that was described by friends and family as a 'nature lover' plummeted 300ft from the summit he was climbing in Oregon's Cascade Mountains

The "Beast of Berlin" is still on the loose and police have warned residents in the German capital to remain inside while hunters, vets, and cops carry out "Operation Lion Hunt" to track down the vicious lioness after zoos, circuses and sanctuaries failed to claim the big cat

Crew members on a ferry to the Isle of Wight spotted the elderly man in trouble in the Solent after his boat overturned in the sea, and sent out a rescue boat likely saving his life

Australian sailor Tim Shaddock, 54, survived gruelling ordeal of three months at sea with only raw fish to sustain him and his faithful hound Bella for company - but he's had to leave her behind in Mexico to be reunited with his family in Sydney

Australian Tim Shaddock and dog Bella have been likened to Tom Hank's in Cast Away at being found alive and well after being left stranded when stormy weather struck his catamaran

Four young children have been released from hospital, after spending 40 days surviving in the Colombian jungle against the threat of snakes, jaguars and drug gangs. Colombian President Gustavo Petro hailed the rescue effort as the beginning of a "new Colombia".

Emile, who usually lives with his parents near Marseille, was last seen by two people as he left his grandparents' home. He was on holiday with the elderly couple