How did the financial system get so messed up with all the rescues of the last year?
In the end, the biggest winners were the dogs at the rescues that Causecast raised a heap of cash to help.
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Most of the rescues occurred in Galveston County, where rising water and other effects of the storm began hours before expected landfall early Saturday.
The rescues of Greece and Ireland have increased their overall debts while their private debts fall, so that a growing share will be owed to European governments.
Insp Mansell also highlighted the rescues of two men who were rescued when their yacht capsized off Padstow and four groups of kayakers in trouble off Ilfracombe.
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After studying the accounts, its temporary boss, Steve Miller, a veteran of the rescues of Chrysler and Canary Wharf (a property venture), replaced the entire audit committee in November.
First, the scale of the rescues needed in 1997-98 by Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia seemed vast at the time, even if they have since been dwarfed in subsequent (non-Asian) crises.
The Eurogroup meeting was also expected to assess the rescues of Portugal and the Republic of Ireland, with the possibility that both countries will be given slightly longer to pay back the loans it has already received.
The EFSF (together with another, much smaller, European pot of money) is already being used to provide rescue funding for Ireland and Portugal, with the IMF chipping in about a third of the total as in all the rescues.
Mr Brailey said the rescues with more serious injuries tend to stick in his mind but one of the most memorable rescue operations he was involved with was responding to a call out for a horse trapped in a bog.
During Wednesday, the pace of the rescues increased from one per hour to three, progress that was measured by the spinning of the metal wheel that let out and then shortened the cable attached to the capsule -- a makeshift elevator with only two stops.
Ian Henderson, secretary of the Llanberis Mountain Rescue team, confirmed the three rescues, including the latest on Friday, when 23 team members were involved.
The court has let the euro rescues through, while strengthening the Bundestag's role in approving them.
Months after the arrests, Lucie -- though pregnant at the time -- organized one of the most dramatic rescues of the Resistance.
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In you we see the same compassion that has led Coast Guardsmen to pull stranded Americans from the rooftops during Katrina, save desperate migrants clinging to rafts in the Caribbean, and even today, as the Coast Guard rescues Americans from the surging Mississippi.
One pet transporter, Robert Ake, drove to New York all the way from Colorado to help with the pet rescues.
Thames Coastguard watch manager Lewis Constantine said the two rescues could have "been avoided with some simple training and some simple equipment".
There are currently 5, 000 donkeys and mules being cared for permanently by the sanctuary in the UK, Ireland and Europe, but the charity also rescues donkeys all over the world.
Even the smallest rescues can leave a sour taste.
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Even assuming that the IMF took some of the strain of such rescues, the increase in the implied indebtedness of Germany of rescuing both Italy and Spain would be in the order of well over 10% of its GDP or output.
Many are the stories of rescues where ships have gone to save the crew and passengers of other vessels needing emergency assistance.
Mr Dijsselbloem said the pattern for bank rescues should see shareholders take the first hit, then bondholders, who lend money through financial markets, and only then should depositors with large bank balances be tapped.
All too often Everest hits the news for the wrong reasons - climbers left to die high on the mountain, or piles of rubbish littering the slopes - but for Luanne such rescues show the spirit of Base Camp.
The European Union and the United States agreed to remove subsidies on agricultural exports and to reduce other farm aid in a deal that rescues the Doha world trade talks .
Bove said the department has been involved in at least 100 rescues since the flooding started.
Mr Mupangklang says he feels a spiritual connection to the animals he rescues.
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