All news on the topic: Rescue

Lesly, 13, used her "ancestral knowledge" and experience of looking after her young brothers, aged nine, four and 10 months old, to keep them alive in the Amazon rainforest, known to be one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet

The four siblings, all members of the Uitoto indigenous community, were flying over the Colombian rainforest on May 1 when their Cessna aircraft crashed into the forest canopy after a suspected engine failure

The young man encountered difficulties following his ill-advised venture to Flory Island by Whipsiderry Beach

The siblings were travelling with with their mother and two other adults when their plane came down on 1 May with suspected engine failure

The boy sunk deep into the mud while walking his dog along the beach in Clevedon Pill, Somerset sparking a major rescue operation with firefighters and coastguard crew

A photograph shows the woman firmly stuck in a channel of shallow water at Marine Lake in West Kirby, Merseyside, before the Royal National Lifeboat Institution helped

The crane driver became trapped in his cab above a burning building as smoke billowed below and around him with his wife reportedly watching helplessly from the ground

Gemma Lampard was out walking six dogs in Farningham Woods in Dartford, Kent, when she heard the wayward pooch desperately barking for help from a fenced-off sinkhole

Terrifying pictures show the moment they were pulled up the cliff, after the RNLI deemed it too risky to try and navigate the crashing waves and rocks below by boat.

Gloucestershire Police have confirmed a body has been pulled from the River Thames in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, in the search for a missing teenage boy who got into trouble last night

Carl O'Keefe, 49, from Lancaster, was rescued from indoor caves at Kong Adventure Centre in Keswick but later sadly died from his injuries, his family has confirmed

Search and rescue boats were launched in Lechlade-on-Thames, Gloucestershire, after a group of teenagers got into trouble in the river, with one still missing this morning

Bryce Brooks, 16, was on holiday in Pensacola, Florida, when he jumped into the water to try and help a group of younger children who had been caught in a dangerous rip.

Authorities are doing extensive efforts to recover the body of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, who is believed to be dead after being missing for monthsfrom Everman, south of Fort Worth, Texas

Two heroic men have descirbed the moment they jumped into save a stricken paraglider who had crashed into the sea in Worthing. Scott Ricketts, 31, and Tim Browne, 35

New Jersey State Trooper Ian Emmi tracked down the frightened little four-year-old lad by listening out for his cries after he went missing from his home in Atlantic City on Wednesday night

The screaming boy, 17 months, saved from worse injuries by air ambulance heroes who landed a helicopter near his home as skin on his face and chest started to come off

Kyle Sambrook, from West Yorkshire, was carrying his pet pooch Bane through the Scottish Highlands when he fell almost 100ft in "appalling weather", rescuers believe

The coastguard has called off its search for two crew members who were on board a tugboat that capsized off the coast of Greenock, Scotland at around 3.30pm this afternoon

Bingo hall staff noticed one black cat, that they nicknamed Dirty Gertie, running around in the ceiling of their building but it took them two weeks to eventually rescue the kitten

Tony the Border Collie Lab mix got stranded while on a hike near the Moffat Tunnel in Rollinsville, Colorado, USA, and his owner injured herself. Luckily the mum and daughter team came to the rescue

The US Coast Guard triangulated where the distress call was coming from and launched nearby vessels and a chopper to the scene, where Petty Officer Michael Clark dived into the ocean to rescue a yacht captain as his vessel sank at the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state

Bantamweight brawler Felipe Colares, who most famously competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, said he and some pals rescued a woman in distress after she was robbed by a thief in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul

The huge 17-hour operation began in the early hours and didn't finish until 8pm as emergency services had to knock through a wall and pull the man down a makeshift ramp

The three boa constrictors, known for squeezing their prey to death, were found in concerning circumstances next to a pile of rubbish by a loch near Glasgow, Scotland