August 2013

A complex "multi-partnership” operation was required to transfer to hospital a man weighing 610kg. Saudi Arabian Khalid Mohsin Shaeri was freed from his house in Jazan after two and a half years of enforced reclusion, to undergo a…

Over 20,000 people have been affected by floods in Russia in the Blagoveshensk region, in the far eastern part of the country. Flood rescue operations have also involved two brown bears from the local zoo, which had to be evacuated by…

A passenger ferry has sunk off the coast near the post of Cebu, in the central Philippines, after colliding with a cargo ship. With 831 passengers and crew members on board, the ferry took less than ten minutes to sink after the impact. The…

What an incredible accident: Kieran Dodge, 19 years old, was working on an excavator in a Sydney construction site when he ended up with a metal bar embedded in his head. The bar had entered the driver’s cab and struck the…

The speed of intervention is a determining factor in the success of mountain rescue. The Italian National Mountain and Caving Rescue Corps (Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico (Cnsas)), in collaboration with the Italian…

http://youtu.be/R8lahz6guQM It’s a well-known fact that music has beneficial effects on mood. In the video by Cypress Hill, one of the best-known US hip-hop groups, in collaboration here with British DJ Roni Size, the rescue team…

The alarm rings at 2.30am and the firefighters at Station 39 Fire Department jump out of bed, scramble into their uniforms and dash to the truck that will carry them to the location of the emergency. For the on-call firefighters of the…

A normal working day at Wakefield’s Yorkshire Ambulance Service, in the UK, with all staff carrying out their usual duties, while BBC television cameras spied on them for the television series "Helicopter Heroes", a documentary on…