rescue

Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey said that the City of Lockport will ask the state Health Department this week to let city firefighters perform more medical services on rescue calls than they have been allowed to do since the city abolished its…

In several communities across U.S. 911 is now sending out a smartphone app alert summoning citiziens trained in CPR, in addition to first responders notifications. If those citiziens arrive at the scene first they can start…

International Nepal earthquake responders are using their own language.

Not only human rescuers are helping in Nepal, there are also dogs. The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit governmental organization, founded in 1996 and based in Ojai California. The mission of this…

The International Exhibition for Rescue and Mobility in Fulda is one of the most important EMS appointment of the year. Dramatic actuality, global significance and impressive tradition come together at the 15th RETTmobil 2015, the…

When a disaster occurs, there is a team of trained volunteers that is ready to be in the first line of defence and help the community with everything from search and rescue to basic first aid. To get the ID badge, the helmet, the vest…

RNLI MAGAZINE - Two young teenagers were rescued from mud on the Isle of Sheppey, in a team effort by Whitstable RNLI’s volunteer crew, coastguard and other emergency services. The girls, aged 13 and 15 years, had been walking along the…

Physicial and emotional reactions often occur as a result of a natural emergency or traumatic event such as a terrorist attack. These reaction can happen immediatly or weeks or months after an event. Traumatic events are marked by a sense…

Extreme helicopter landing is ever spectacular image. But Italian one is better than others. Reporter Marco Petruzzelli had filmed an exercises for mountain rescue in Belluno. A pilot of the National Forestry Corps demontrate his ability,…

SOURCE NORDIC ROTORS - As the Swedish Armed Forces decided to close its helicopter activities in Stockholm and Gothenburg the need for a new civil SAR operator became evident. The search and rescue alert was threatened in the regions.…