Tag: rescuers
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Gridlock, Confusion and Waiting: On the Road With Spanish Rescuers in Morocco
[ad_1] new video loaded: Gridlock, Confusion and Waiting: On the Road With Spanish Rescuers in Morocco transcript Back transcript Gridlock, Confusion and Waiting: On the Road With Spanish Rescuers in Morocco Our video journalists embedded with a team of Spanish military rescuers in Morocco as they attempted to save lives after the earthquake. They spent…
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After Libya Floods, a Chaotic Scramble for Rescuers
[ad_1] Ali Elshanti arrived in the flood-stricken city of Derna on Wednesday afternoon, part of an aid convoy he and his friends organized that left the city of Misrata in the west of Libya 15 hours earlier. What he saw when he arrived looked like something out of a Hollywood disaster film, he said on…
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Morocco Rescuers Slow to Reach Hardest Hit Areas After Quake
[ad_1] Search and rescue efforts intensified on Saturday in Morocco after a powerful earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and injured hundreds more overnight, with national authorities deploying the military to hard-hit areas and foreign partners promising aid. But it remained unclear how quickly emergency teams would be able to reach the victims and prevent…
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Rescuers Blast Open Passages to Extract Sick American From Cave in Turkey
[ad_1] Efforts to extract an American explorer who became ill more than 3,400 feet underground in a cave in southern Turkey expanded on Friday, as international rescue teams installed communications equipment and blasted open narrow areas to allow the passage of a stretcher, officials involved in the rescue said. The caver, Mark Dickey, 40, was…
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Toll in Greece floods hits 10 as rescuers race to villages
[ad_1] Helicopters and lifeboats have been deployed to reach hundreds of stranded villagers in central Greece, as the death toll from deadly flooding rose to 10, authorities said Friday. Firefighters worked alongside the army to reach villages cut off by rising water levels, which transformed roads into rivers and left houses submerged in the central…
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Calif. driver plunged into ravine; 5 days later, rescuers arrived
[ad_1] A motorist who spent nearly five days trapped in a pickup truck after it went over a 100-foot bluff in Kern County was rescued on Saturday, authorities said. The person was airlifted to a nearby hospital; their condition wasn’t immediately known. Details, including the individual’s name and age, have not been released. The Kern…
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Rescuers tackling ‘mass stranding’ of pilot whales on Scottish beach
[ad_1] For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Marine rescuers are attending a “mass stranding” of pilot whales on a Stornoway beach. Police have instructed the public to avoid the area to allow the mammals…
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Why rescuers have their work cut out for them : NPR
[ad_1] A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sits in port in Boston Harbor on Monday amidst the search for the submersible. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sits in port in Boston Harbor on Monday amidst the search for the submersible. Joseph Prezioso/AFP…
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Russians shooting at rescuers in flooded areas, Zelenskyy says – POLITICO
[ad_1] Press play to hearken to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the dad or mum firm of POLITICO. KYIV — Russian forces are capturing at Ukrainian rescuers making an attempt to succeed in these trapped in flood-struck areas…
