Category Archives: Rescue

Toddler walks two blocks to reach medical help for her father

By doris | Published: August 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Alesaundra Tafoya’s parents have been teaching their daughter about safety in their Northern California community, pointing out such safe havens as fire stations if she ever finds herself in trouble. They weren’t, however, expecting 3-year-old Alesaundra to call upon those lessons when one of them needed help — but [...]

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Plane crashes are sadly all too common in Alaska

By doris | Published: August 12, 2010

Full Story atYahoo.com JUNEAU, Alaska – Anyone who has ever stepped foot on an airplane in Alaska is keenly aware of the dangers that lurk in every mountain pass and cloud on the horizon. Ted Stevens was so mindful of the risks that he once called plane crashes an occupational hazard for politicians in Alaska, [...]

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Investigators to work scene of deadly Alaska plane crash

By doris | Published: August 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Investigators will be on the scene Wednesday of a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others. Also, autopsies are expected to be completed by the end of the day. Brutal terrain and bad weather on the remote Alaska mountain kept survivors waiting 12 hours [...]

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Sky Glider Stuck At State Fair

By doris | Published: August 7, 2010

Full Story at WISN.com WEST ALLIS, Wis. –Riders got stuck Thursday night when the Sky Glider stopped working on opening day of the Wisconsin State Fair. Fair organizers got the Sky Glider back operating on Friday afternoon.The West Allis Fire Department moved trucks onto the State Fair Grounds, according to Patrice Harris with the fair. [...]

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Bear gets stuck in car, goes on brief ride

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you think you’ve heard it all, follow this tale of a hungry black bear who went for a ride, literally. Douglas County, Colorado, Sheriff’s deputies early Friday got a call about a honking car and a commotion inside. Perhaps it was teenagers or a thief, they thought as [...]

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Couple suspected in child’s kidnapping arrested in Arizona

By doris | Published: July 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A man and woman suspected of kidnapping a 5-year-old boy from Missouri were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, an FBI spokesman said. The boy — Devon Denman — was found unharmed Monday in the back seat of a stolen vehicle after a high-speed police pursuit in New Mexico [...]

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Hurricane Alex drenches Mexico’s northern coast

By doris | Published: July 1, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN FERNANDO, Mexico – Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, flooded streets and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages as it pushed into northern Mexico. The Atlantic season’s first hurricane largely spared nearby Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. While it spawned two tornadoes and caused [...]

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Second Flagstaff fire forces more to flee

By doris | Published: June 21, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Firefighters in aircraft and on the ground battled the second serious wildfire to threaten the Flagstaff area in two days Sunday, prompting officials to urge hundreds of residents to flee as flames crept within 500 yards of some homes. Officials said the fast-spreading fire erupted in this forested [...]

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Round-the-world teen sailor alive, well

By doris | Published: June 11, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com A 16-year-old Californian girl attempting to sail solo around the world is safe and well, her parents said, after a massive search and rescue operation was launched in the Indian Ocean when she triggered distress signals. Abby Sunderland was last heard from about 6 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, when she broke [...]

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Death count after Tennessee floods rises to 23

By doris | Published: May 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) — Severe storms and massive flooding last weekend killed 23 people in Tennessee, state emergency management officials said. The federal government has declared 42 counties disaster areas. Flooding has caused more than $1.5 billion in property damage in the Nashville area alone, city officials said. Piles of debris [...]

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7-alarm NYC Chinatown fire injures 25

By doris | Published: April 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK CITY – A seven-alarm fire broke out in Manhattan’s Lower East Side Chinatown neighborhood on Sunday night, injuring 25 people, NBC News affiliate WNBC reported. At least 250 firefighters were battling the blaze, a New York Fire Department official told WNBC. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, [...]

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25 killed in West Virginia mine blast

By doris | Published: April 6, 2010

Full Story at 25 dead in W. Va. coal mine blast – Life- msnbc.com MONTCOAL, W.Va. – Rescue teams planned to search again for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said Tuesday that the chances [...]

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Driver: My Prius took me for a ride

By doris | Published: March 13, 2010

Technology or just money that the cars are not safe. You judge for your self.Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car’s accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a [...]

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Clinton visits quake-hit Chile to offer support

By doris | Published: March 3, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a small dent in Chile’s growing needs following a massive earthquake, handing over 25 satellite phones while promising more Tuesday in the country’s capital.

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More than 2 million affected by earthquake, Chile’s president says

By doris | Published: February 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Santiago, Chile (CNN) — As the sun set in Chile on Saturday, a picture of the immense structural damage wrought by an early morning earthquake had come clearly into focus, with the nation’s president estimating that 2 million people had been affected in some way. More than 300 people were killed, [...]

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Haiti quake gives Guantanamo new mission

By doris | Published: January 22, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The Haiti earthquake is giving the American base at Guantanamo Bay a new mission: supplying aid to the devastated island nation and potentially detaining thousands of Haitian migrants captured at sea. President Barack Obama’s deadline for closing the base prison expires Friday with no new [...]

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Search crews dig through quake rubble as relief mission takes shape

By doris | Published: January 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Undeterred by darkness, a rescue crew patiently chipped away at concrete and debris early Sunday morning to try and reach a woman who sent a text message that she was buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed bank. The team with the Los Angeles County Search and [...]

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First U.S. military aid reaches quake-stricken Haiti

By doris | Published: January 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation. One of two planes carrying a 30-person assessment team arrived at Port-au-Prince airport about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The team will [...]

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Flood rescuer repeats father’s heroic actions

By doris | Published: October 4, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died. For three decades, he’d carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas. Riding on the back of Dad’s motorcycle. Tommie Stephney’s love for drag-racing. But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to [...]

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For long-separated families, reunions can be a struggle

By doris | Published: September 13, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Jaycee Dugard is reuniting with her close relatives for the first time in 18 years, after having been found on August 27. Dugard was 11 years old when she was abducted in 1991 from a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California. She allegedly was kept in a series of backyard [...]

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