Clipperton Island is an abandoned atoll in the Pac...  ...what happened on the island, but the crew of the rescue ship kept the details secret for seventeen years,...

It's not easy to look up a phone number in a forei...  ...y were in trouble and called the coast guard, who rescued the couple and their dog by helicopter. She said...

Heather Dopp of Miami Beach knew a mother cat had kittens on the roof, but when she began hearing meows a bit closer, she called a friend to help find him. Heather thought the meows were coming from the roof top, but so...

The Canadian Avalanche Rescue Cat Association (CARCA) is the brainchild of Stev...  ...f Steve Ruskay, whose vision of a unit of trained rescue cats met with initial enthusiasm and then ridicul...  ...g and use of domestic cats in emergency avalanche rescue procedures. We fee...

Lynn Peters of Johannesburg, South Africa, sen...  ...was not.) A volunteer security group called Riga Rescue offered to track the victim's cell signal. The se...  ...50 miles from where he was taken. The victim was rescued

Sometime before Christmas, 44-year-old Peter Skyllberg's car became stuck in deep snow near Umea, Sweden, just south of the Arctic Circle. A passer-by found him last Friday -meaning he spent about two months stuck in his...

Rescue group before, but one thing left out of their usu...

(Video Link) The poor fellow in Dartmouth, No...  ...tween two power lines. But linemen swooped in and rescued him. Link -via Blame It on the Voices

When big storms hit the coast, adult seals can swim through the rough seas, but little guys often end up abandoned on the beach. Fortunately, the RSPCA is there to help treat them and care for them until the cool wea...

An unnamed man in the town of Montmélian, France,...  ...d emergency services in the morning. After he was rescued , police figured out what he was doing when it hap...