May 2014

MALAYSIA - Be careful with melted wires in Malaysia. The short circuit is the first causes who started the fire, The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) here recorded fewer fire related cases during the first four months of this year…

The Red Crescent publish on Facebook the last news on the disaster response to the recent explosion at a coal mine in #Soma, western Turkey. As operations to free those who are still trapped continue, 50…

Stephen Sutton, the teenager who raised more than £3.2m for the Teenage Cancer Trust, has died in hospital on May, 14th. "My heart is bursting with pride - write on the Stephen Facebook Profile his mom - but breaking with pain…

The 112 Awards Ceremony has revealed its winners. Awardees from the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain walked off with top honours rewarding their commitment to promote and improve the European emergency…

The 14th RETTmobil is the concentrate of tradition and progress, achievement and success, for which there is no comparison on our continent. An impulse for the industry and the economy. A must for all those who help and…

(Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 12 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 201 in the nation's worst mining disaster for decades. Hundreds more were…

A 16-year-old Menasha girl found herself in a predicament Saturday afternoon when she jumped into the Fox River from Jefferson Park as part of the Cold Water Challenge phenomenon. The problem was she couldn’t get back out of the water…

ZipLine Medical is developing unique non-invasive skin closure solutions designed to provide the best of both worlds — suture-like outcomes at the speed of staples, in an easy to use device that decreases the risk of surgical site…

Geneva/Kiev (ICRC) – In Donetsk last night, an ICRC staff member and eight volunteers from the Ukrainian Red Cross Society were taken away by a group of armed men and interrogated. All of them were released after a few hours. One…

Saying the road to recovery will be long, the International Federation of Red Cross, which includes the Philippine Red Cross, and Red Crescent Societies are now laying out a three-year recovery plan costing 320 million Swiss francs (P16…