New technology at Jersey's harbours department could help to rescue people at sea more quickly.
In disasters, our peacekeepers rescue people from wreckage and help get aid to survivors.
Three officers were honoured for helping rescue people trapped in rubble and quick thinking at the scene.
The rescue people dump his tags and toys into a plastic evidence bag, as if he were leaving prison.
Most towns and cities have estates as bad as the slums from which council housing was originally supposed to rescue people.
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About 100 firefighters tackled the fire, using a ladder to rescue people.
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We saw a firefighter who had just come from trying to rescue people at ground zero, but he had been turned back by the impending collapse.
With share prices of Fannie and Freddie plummeting daily, are the government-sponsored entities really in a position to help rescue people whose homes are headed for foreclosure?
France and Britain are talking separately about whether it may be possible to send boats to rescue people who remain trapped on beaches in north-eastern Sri Lanka.
The South African Air Force is being used to rescue people affected by the flooding in remote settlements, some of which are cut off from the outside world.
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Heavy rains are affecting other parts of northern South Africa - and the air force has been used to rescue people affected by the flooding in remote settlements, some of which are cut off from the outside world.
Many Haitians complain that the government did not do enough to prepare for the storms, did not warn people to evacuate, was not able to rescue people who were trapped and now has no plan to get people back home.
With share prices of Fannie (nyse: FNM - news - people ) and Freddie (nyse: FRE - news - people ) plummeting daily, are the government-sponsored entities really in a position to help rescue people whose homes are headed for foreclosure?
While the tech minds of California struggle to rescue people from the threat of a ten degree increase in global temperatures over the next 50 years, the tech minds of Israel struggle to protect us from the threat of a million degree increase in temperature in a crowded city over a nanosecond.
Mr. Culhane said the right to shelter had merits back in the 1980s when advocates fought desperately to rescue people from street homelessness, but now it's parking thousands of families and children in shelter at an enormous cost when, he said, resources could be better spent on housing, support services, and homelessness prevention measures.
In Surfside Beach, police waded through chest-high rushing water to rescue five people trapped in their homes.
The security officers, Detectives Alex Rodriguez and Santos Duran, managed to rescue three people by the time Booker arrived.
Firefighters were able to rescue 107 people but many others did not survive.
In Texas, the Coast Guard said its crews saved or helped rescue 17 people caught in storms along the Gulf Coast.
The Coast Guard and National Guard were on duty helping to rescue stranded people and maintain shelters for those who had evacuated their homes.
"There is a refugee camp nearby and when the security heard the news, some soldiers rushed to rescue 30 people, " he told the BBC Burmese service.
Or, to take a very different example, the US government's decision to rescue the people who had invested in Mexican bonds, in the "Tequila Crisis" of 1994.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard and Air Force were unable to rescue 22 people aboard a freighter adrift in the Gulf of Mexico because of weather, the two military branches said Friday.
The airport closed shortly after, and it was a week before the company could rescue another 500 people.
Rescue teams brought people evacuated from the hard-hit town of Beichuan to Mianyang's sports stadium for food and shelter.
The RNLI's flood rescue teams helped people to safety at Aberyswyth Holiday Village.
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Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service warned people with dogs or children to be careful near frozen lakes, ponds and rivers.
Images from the scene showed emergency rescue teams carrying people on stretchers.
She supports Oxfam's six-point rescue plan for people in her situation.
And he said it was an open question as to whether the NHS in Wales should continue to "simply and unquestioningly ride to the rescue" of people in these situations.
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