#search-and-rescue

#search-and-rescue

A 21-year-old San Jose State University student was found dead Thursday morning after he went missing while skiing at Northstar California Resort on Lake Tahoe's north shore. The death also came during a brutal storm that dumped more than 8 feet of snow on Lake Tahoe the surrounding region, the same storm that left measurable snowfall in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

During the deployment, the teams rescued more than 80 people from floodwaters and damaged structures. London Fire Brigade's UK ISAR coordinator, Ian Simpson, said an elderly blind woman and a small child were among the people they saved, which "brought home how important our work out there was". LFB He added: "I could not be prouder of the team's dedication, resilience, and professionalism, which directly contributed to saving lives and supporting the wider humanitarian response."

BIG SUR Monterey County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue assisted with recovery efforts after a vehicle drove off Highway 1 and went over a cliff at Hurricane Point in Big Sur on Tuesday afternoon. At about 4:22 p.m. on Tuesday, emergency dispatchers received multiple 911 calls reporting a vehicle had gone off the roadway and was believed to have entered the water. Big Sur Fire and the Monterey County Sheriff's Office established a coordinated search and rescue operation.

Whenever Moriah Berthrong receives a new batch of placentas, she gets creative. She buries them, tosses them in fields, hangs them from trees. She immerses them in water. She burns them. She rubs them on towels and then runs those towels through the washing machine. She hides them in closets and in abandoned cars. She once encased a placenta in a concrete brick. Sometimes she ages them first-the better to train her dogs to find human remains.

A 13-year-old boy has saved his mother and two younger siblings by swimming for four hours in fading light and rough conditions, after they were swept out to sea in south-west Western Australia. The family were holidaying in Quindalup, 200km south of Perth, when strong winds pushed their inflatable paddleboards and kayak offshore from Geographe Bay on Friday afternoon. The boy attempted to kayak back to shore to get help, but the vessel took on water, forcing him to swim 4km back to shore, where he successfully raised the alarm.

FireDrone is an aerogel-covered that can help firefighters in rescue missions by surveying for victims inside burning buildings. The assistive device aims to be the 'flying eye' in extreme environments so humans can be sure of who are and what is inside a site before going in. The FireDrone flying machine resembles a small quadcopter with its four arms and spinning propellers, but unlike regular drones, the parts of the device are built to survive high temperatures.

The death toll from Saturday's landslide in a residential area of West Java province has risen to 10. Indonesian rescuers have resumed searching for some 80 people still missing in a deadly landslide, after the mission coordinator said operations had to be suspended overnight due to harsh weather. The death toll from Saturday's landslide in a residential area of West Java province rose to 10 on Sunday, according to state-run media, announcing three more deaths.