Rescue

The residents of the three-storey building in Bhiwandi had been told to vacate the property as it was in a dangerous condition.

Firefighters continue to battle 28 major fires acros the state, with the Creek, Bobcat, Slater and Willow fires reported to be zero percent contained.

Over 14,100 firefighters were reported to be battling 24 large wildfires across California, as of Monday evening.

One person has died due to a medical issue amid the ongoing fire but there may be more casualties, the Fresno Fire Department warned.

She was a half-mile away from shore.

Two cousins were found by fishermen off the coast of Ireland after a paddleboarding adventure turned into the "stuff of nightmares."

Andrew Grande rescued his 4-year-old daughter from a 500-pound alligator in Galveston County.

Philadelphia auto mechanic Tyree Ward is named a "true American hero" after rescuing a drowning woman at a beach in New Jersey on Monday night.

The Hurt family spotted the exhausted bear swimming on Marshmiller Lake during a fishing trip around sunset.

More than 600 animals were removed from a home during a rescue operation in the Buchanan community.

Astoria police officer praised for his "selfless act of bravery" on Friday, when he entered a house on fire to save a baby

Bear is a 5-year-old rescue dog who has been trained to sniff out koalas as part of the ''Detection Dogs for Conservation" team at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

"Due to the quick thinking of the police officers by closing the bedroom door, firefighters were able to contain the fire to the bedroom and extinguish the flames," said Snohomish County Fire District 7.

The search for Maeve Kennedy McKean and her son Gideon has turned from a rescue to recovery on Friday, as her husband and other Kennedy family members remember the missing pair.

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue confirmed that one patient had been transported to a local hospital after their vehicle plunged into a canal close to Military Trail and Camino Real in Boca Raton.

After rescuing the man, police then determined that the car had been stolen and was using fake license plates, prompting the thief's arrest.

Pigeons wearing tiny cowboy hats have been spotted in Vegas, an accessory that can lead to all kind of health problems from respiratory issues to infection.

The 16-year-old was climbing Mount Hood with a group of people when he fell and injured his leg, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said.

We realized this was a time sensitive case, and that we needed to help this child get to a higher level of medical care as soon as possible," Petty Officer 2nd Class Carlos A. Garay explained.

The lion was rescued by authorities after a petition was filed to the Lagos State Ministry of Environment in Nigeria.

Kris, a cheetah cub, and Remus, her companion dog, are residents of Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Ohio. The pair first met in September and have since become close.

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A Tennessee dog has been rescued from a culvert pipe, this time after being trapped for 13 hours.

Staff at the center believe the chimp was beaten, leaving a severe ulcer in its right eye, while the brown hair on its body suggests he experienced severe malnourishment.

Cristian Burgos, 17, ran into the sea to rescue the mother and child at Virginia Key beach in Miami but had to be plucked out of the water himself.

The driver told authorities that he misjudged lights on the pier, but the Coast Guard has said the driver was also under the influence of alcohol.

"I just had to think about, 'You want to just die up here? Or you going to have to do something?" said Barbara Dadswell. "'Cause no one's coming up here to get here. They don't know you're here.'"

"It was made very clear that did not know how to swim. [The woman] appeared to be in distress and became submerged into the water," read a police report detailing the September 7 incident.

The man managed to keep himself afloat using two bits of plastic foam, surviving until the Russian vessel picked him up near the coast.

"A scary situation, especially sitting at the bottom of a septic tank and you don't know that anybody's coming to get you," said paramedic Nick Wettlaufer.