"Miracle" dog found alive 40 feet down in cave, lured out by salami
The cave was littered with animal skulls and bones, the rescuer said, adding: "It felt nice that the cave didn't get to keep another one."
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The cave was littered with animal skulls and bones, the rescuer said, adding: "It felt nice that the cave didn't get to keep another one."
Lukas McClish, 34, was reported missing by his family on June 11. He was found on June 20.
A kite surfer stranded on the Santa Cruz County coastline used a bit of ingenuity to help get himself rescued, authorities said.
A nonprofit developer wants to build two facilities to help Native American Women with disabilities and youth who are pregnant in rural El Dorado County.
Three mariners were rescued after they spelled out "HELP" with palm leaves on the beach. It marks the second time in four years that castaways were found on the same island.
Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years hit during morning rush, killing several, injuring hundreds and sparking tsunami warnings as far away as Japan and the Philippines.
First responders found themselves wading into swift water in El Dorado Hills early Monday morning to rescue a trapped man.
A Carnival cruise ship rescued two men after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico.
Three people who set out to snow camp overnight Tuesday in the Tahoe National Forest were rescued after they got lost in a snowstorm.
Japan's leader says workers are "fighting a battle against time" to rescue people trapped in rubble after a series of powerful earthquakes.
A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula started erupting earlier this week, shooting lava fountains nearly 100 feet in the air and creating a 2.5-mile-long fissure.
Leah Brown was reported to have a concussion and bruises but no broken bones after the fall and intensive rescue.
After more than 2 weeks of fruitless rescue efforts with heavy machinery in India, a team of "rat miners" managed to reach the men trapped in a tunnel in just a day.
A utility worker was killed when a trench collapsed under a sidewalk in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood Thursday, prompting a frantic, hours-long rescue effort.
The person has been trapped for more than an hour.
A Libyan official who visited Derna said "25% of the city has disappeared," and he expects the final toll to be "really, really big."
Cave expert Mark Dickey was hit with internal bleeding as he helped chart the Morca cave system, leaving him stuck more than 3,200 feet underground.
Turkish and international cave rescue experts were working Thursday to save an American speleologist trapped at a depth of more than 3,280 feet in a cave in southern Turkey after he became ill. Mark Dickey, 40, became sick during an international expedition in Morca cave in southern Turkey's Taurus Mountains, in the Mersin province, according to the European Cave Rescue Association. He has gastrointestinal bleeding and has been unable to leave the cave on his own, the association said on its website.
U.S. speleologist Mark Dickey, described as "a highly trained caver and a cave rescuer himself," suffered gastrointestinal bleeding deep underground.
When crews arrived, "they found a badly damaged pickup truck and one occupant" at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff, officials said.
Charles Gregory was adrift at sea in a small boat, part of which had filled with water by the time he was rescued.
A person who fell while rock climbing in the high Sierra had to be hoisted out by helicopter over the weekend.
An unconscious person was found critically injured at the base of a cliff near the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday afternoon the CHP said.
A sub that set out to explore the Titanic wreckage vanished in the North Atlantic, prompting a massive search and rescue operation.
The U.S. Coast Guard said two new vessels had reached the area and deployed their ROVs to scan the ocean floor.
