August 2013

This video will allow you to live firsthand the drama of the rescue operation undertaken at the scene of the plane crash in San Francisco last 6th July. The images of the film taken by the Californian firefighters show the difficult…

A first-person account of a beach rescue. The US edition of the Wall Street Journal tells the story of two NYC Lifeguards dealing with an unconscious male swimmer face down in the water. One of the lifeguards was only 17 years old and new…

Rescuers know it well: by doing what we train for, we can profoundly affect the lives of people that we, in all likelihood, will never see again. Less obvious are the unseen effects that extend far into the future. Let’s find out with…

When someone finds themselves in an emergency situation, the rescue team must always know, decide and choose how to act as quickly as possible. Sometimes, however, this is not enough and it is then that the presence of a coordinator becomes…

The scene took place in West Carrollton, Ohio. A man pronounced dead, 45 minutes after his heart had stopped beating, comes back to life to the surprise of the doctors, who cannot explain why it happened. At the centre of the story is…

A wildfire of apocalyptic dimensions is threatening the Yosemite National Park in the USA. The flames may have been started naturally by a lightning strike in a hard-to-reach part of the park. The blaze has already devoured over 60,000…

A tragic accident involving a tourist bus in Malaysia has caused 37 deaths. The disaster brings back memories of the dreadful crash in Monteforte Irpino in July this year, which it resembles in terms of the number of victims and the…

55 passengers were injured when the charter casino bus they were travelling in overturned. The accident happened on the Interstate 201 in the county of Irwing, near Los Angeles. Exactly what happened is still unknown: according to witnesses…

In the first part of the video a threatened suicide is prevented. In the second a child whose curiosity has left him hanging in mid-air with his body stuck between the bars of a window cage on the 8th floor. Chinese broadcaster NTDTV shows…

41-year-old Vanessa Tanasio from Narre Wallen, a Melbourne suburb, was brought back to life after a cardiac arrest lasting 42 minutes. This was an intervention that seemed miraculous but was in fact the result of the correct management of a…