Tag: Search and rescue efforts
Zion National Park search for woman cost $60K, report says
SALT LAKE CITY — A search for a California woman who was missing for two weeks last fall at Zion National Park in Utah...
Spain rescues migrant boat, investigates reported deaths
MADRID — Authorities in Spain’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa rescued a boat carrying 48 migrants, including one who was recovered dead, and police...
Crocodile hunt: Search on for escaped reptiles in S. Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Police and conservation officers were searching Friday for an unknown number of young crocodiles that escaped earlier in the...
Tonywatch: Elizabeth Stanley seeks ‘healing and connection’
NEW YORK — A short time after Broadway shut down last year, Elizabeth Stanley went on a tiny rescue mission.
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Turkey: Woman drops kids from window to save them from fire
ISTANBUL — A woman rescued her four children from a burning building in Istanbul by throwing them out of a window, and all of...
Former Polish dissident Litynski drowns trying to save dog
WARSAW, Poland — Rescue officials were searching Monday for the body of Jan Litynski, a Polish communist-era dissident and democracy-era politician who drowned in...
Moderate quake injures at least 10 people in central Iran
TEHRAN, Iran — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck central Iran on Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people, Iranian media reported.
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Boat with 422 migrants, some with COVID-19, heads to Sicily
ROME — A rescue ship with 422 migrants aboard, a small number of whom tested positive for COVID-19, was headed to a port in...
Search ends for Filipino crew member lost off German coast
BERLIN — Rescuers have ended their search for a 24-year-old Filipino crew member who fell from a cargo ship off the German coast during...
‘We are dying in here’: 911 plea cues human trafficking hunt
Federal, state and local authorities in Texas are searching for a tanker truck days after a 911 caller in the San Antonio area reported...