Man Survives 5 Days in Ravine After Crash
A great-grandfather in California is lucky to be alive after his truck fell 100 feet into a ravine, leaving him stranded and too injured to move. Calvin Smith, 68, was spotted by dirt bikers in Kern...
View ArticlePlane Set to Land on Frozen Lake Didn't Quite Make It
Passengers on a small plane that crashed in Canada this week are fortunate to be alive after a rescue at a remote site in the Northwest Territories. Today in BC reports that the Air Tindi aircraft, a...
View ArticleUS Navy Sailors Go Missing Off Coast of Somalia
A search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of Somalia after two sailors from the US Navy went missing on Thursday night, reports Reuters . "For operational security purposes, we will not...
View Article23 Lost Skiers, Snowboarders Needed Rescue in Vermont
Twenty-three skiers and snowboarders had to be rescued in frigid temperatures on Saturday after becoming lost in the backcountry in Killington, Vermont, police said. After a call came in around 2:30pm...
View ArticleHiker Who Was Rescued After 11-Hour Ordeal: I Made Bad Decisions
As temperatures plunged on New Hampshire's Mount Washington and ferocious winds made it near impossible to see, hiker Cole Matthes began to drift away from the trail. Then he hit a patch of...
View ArticleMan Stranded on Cliffside for 2 Days After Crash
The California Highway Patrol says it rescued a man who had been stranded on a cliffside for two days after he swerved to avoid some deer. In a Facebook post , the CHP's Coastal Division Air Operations...
View ArticleOn 4th Day, a Break for Family Stuck in Flooded Outback
"Bush savvy" though they are, fears for a family of seven lost in the Australian outback had mounted Wednesday with what was initially no sign of the group for a fourth day. Three elderly people and...
View ArticleHiker Found Dead at Base of 150-Foot Drop
Hiker Caroline Meister, 30, was found dead Friday, four days after venturing into the wilderness in Carmel Valley, California, reports NBC News . She left the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, where she...
View Article3 Rescued From Remote Atoll Thanks to Their 'Ingenuity'
In a search area covering more than 100,000 square miles in the remote Pacific, the 31-acre atoll was a needle in a haystack. Still, authorities discovered the three men stranded for days on the...
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