All news on the topic: Rescue

Police are treating a huge blaze at a derelict warehouse in West Lothian as deliberate as investigations continue.

A Tesco store was evacuated after two caravans were deliberately set on fire, according to emergency services.

A young girl who was hanging from a window ledge in Ilford for at least nine minutes was saved by a ‘complete stranger’.

Five of the seven people who were trapped in a flooded cave in Laos for a week have been found alive.

The Nepalis were lured to Myanmar by promises of legitimate jobs, but said they were tortured and forced to work in scam compounds before being rescued.

A gyrocopter pilot executed a bold emergency landing in a field after his propeller was hit and damaged above Greater Manchester.

A 9-year-old girl was discovered tied up in the cellar of a shop in Brazil after police heard her screams; she reported that she had been abused by the owner, who was subsequently lynched by a mob.

French authorities say they received call for help from overcrowded dinghy in early hours of Sunday

When all 12 Thai cave rescue victims, as well as their coach, emerged alive from the Tham Luang cave after being trapped for more than two weeks, many couldn't believe their eyes. Here we take a look at where the boys are now

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

A man who was nearly 24 hours in the water off the coast of New Zealand after falling from his boat, and was circled by sharks, used the reflection from his watch to signal for help

In May 2021, despite gale force winds, freezing rains and hale pounding the city of Baiyin in Gansu, China, organisers of an ultra-marathon event decided to let it go ahead anyway

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

Luana Araujo de Souza, 18, fell from a cliff in Brazil and was close to having her body battered by rocks when a team of lifeguards managed to drag her from the sea

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 off-duty officers were rescued from the peak of the Munro at 2am on Saturday after they got into difficulty while scaling the Cuillin Ridge on Skye.

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