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2 Hikers Missing Near Eldora
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
The search involves several volunteer fire departments, the Rocky Mountain Rescue group, Front Range Rescue dogs and the Boulder County Sheriff's ...
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Eugene doctor killed in Mount Hood climbing accident
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
Search aircraft confirmed his location and his death on Sunday evening. Mountain rescue volunteers from Portland are working to recover his body and have ...
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Officials patrol Flathead Lake
KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA
Members of Lake County Search and Rescue are staying busy with land and water search missions and are offering up tips on staying safe while recreating on ...
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Bonneville County Search and Rescue Looking for 43-year-old ...
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
Bonneville County Search and Rescue worked all afternoon Sunday, trying to find the body of a 43-year-old man after he and his daughter fell out of raft ...
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Rescue workers on way to trapped fisherman at Tanner's Flat
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Posted: 9:53 AM- Salt Lake County Search and Rescue workers have been dispatched this morning to rescue a man crying for help in the Tanner's Flat area east ...
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Toni Sander is a sommelier seeking to aid rescue teams
Hamilton Journal News (subscription) - Hamilton,OH,USA
But she hopes that soon she — or more accurately, she and her dog — will be known as the team to call for area search and rescue operations. ...
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Searchers Look For 2 Hikers West Of Boulder
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
(CBS4) ― Search and rescue teams were looking for two missing hikers west of Boulder near Eldora Monday. The hikers were in the Fourth of July Campground ...
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Plane with 3 on board crashes in Skagit County
KOMO News - Seattle,WA,USA
Search and rescue teams are trying to make their way to the site of a crashed plane northeast of here. Officials said the small plane with three people on ...
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Did Adventurer Fake His Death?
Sky News - Isleworth,England,UK
And despite a huge search and rescue operation, the biggest in American history, no trace of either him or his plane was found. ...
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Body of missing boy, 10, found by River Severn
Times Online - UK
Members of the public, who had volunteered to assist the search and rescue effort found the body this morning. An extensive search was conducted jointly by ...
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Tygart Lake State Park hosts Louisiana’s K-9 Search and Rescue ...
Mountain Statesman - grafton,WV,USA
Higgins, who has been involved with law enforcement since 1982 now works with both mounted and K-9 search and rescue units as co-founder/co-trainer of the ...
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Austrians rescued on Spantik and more news
Everest News - Nepal
24-Jul-2008 At (1215 hours local) Mr. Naik Nam, the local tour operator informed to launch the search & rescue tomorrow due to negative weather at Shimshal ...
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Adding bite to bench
Delaware County Daily Times - Primos,PA,USA
Cpl. Bob Adams has the third dog, Court, who is trained in search and rescue. Adams was involved in the discovery of a body last March near Bootleggers bar ...
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Rescue crews bring couple down mountain
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
(KSL News) A couple of experienced hikers had to call search and rescue crews for help when one of them injured their knee. Collin Buck and Heidi Patterson ...
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Dog Dies After Being Shot Near Its Bremerton Home
Kitsap Sun - WA, United States
The dog went to obedience school and was trained to be a search-and-rescue dog. Fernandes said the family is struggling with the loss of the pet. ...
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Search continues for 2 missing swimmers
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY EMERSON CLARRIDGE | Special to Newsday A rescue team organizes to search for missing teen on Long Beach. (Newsday / Sabrina de Sampaio / July 25, ...
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Search and rescue teams busy Thursday
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Bozeman,MT,USA
Within 90 minutes, the Gallatin County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, Rae Sourdough Fire Department and American Medical Response ambulance service all ...
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Storms hit rescue bid for North climber
Sunday Sun - Newcastle upon Tyne,Engl and,UK
However, stormy weather forced rescuers to abandon a search and rescue mission for Ben in the notoriously dangerous area. His mother Heather said: "We had ...
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Members of IAF Unit 669 head to Laos to search for missing Israeli ...
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
The search-and rescue operation to find Avner Bardugo - the Israeli tourist who went missing in Laos after his kayak overturned on the Mekong River ...
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Search and rescue crews look for missing hiker
KSBY - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputies and search and rescue volunteers are looking for a missing hiker. Deputies tell Action News 42-year-old Lance Erik ...
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SAR Operations Underway in Cameron County Texas
Search and rescue efforts were still underway in South Texas Friday night. Texas Task Force 1 has been leading the charge in Cameron County, on= e of the hardest hit regions; where many are still without power, running w= ater, ...
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Psychic aids in finding woman
Vernon Morning Star - BC, Canada
Vernon Search and Rescue personnel and a Vernon RCMP dog handler had combed the same area and found no trace of the missing woman. A family member reported ...
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Many Grand County forest roads still blocked by snow
Sky Hi Daily News - Granby,CO,USA
By Will Bublitz A Grand County Search and Rescue team on ATVs responded Sunday to Corona Pass above Winter Park to assist an Aurora man who attempted to ...
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Turkish Cypriots conduct exercises
Famagusta Gazette - Ayia Napa,Famagusta,Cyprus
JUN.08 A series of search and rescue training operations have begun in the occupied areas of Cyprus. Today a part of the exercise will take place in ...
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Search continues for tourist
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Up to 50 people are involved in the search effort, which was hampered yesterday by rough seas. The search involves the Newcastle rescue search coordinators, ...
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Man dies after ATV accident
Daily Triplicate - Crescent City,CA,USA
Search and rescue crews recovered his body later that afternoon. California Highway Patrol Officer Brandy Aguiniga said it appears Gibson might have lost ...
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Tests Check Out Robotic Rescue Life-Saving Vision
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA
by Staff Writers To save lives, search and rescue robots crawling through the rubble of a collapsed building or surveying a chemical spill area must be ...
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Busy weekend for CFB search and rescue staff
Belleville Intelligencer - Belleville,Ontario,Canada
Several days of harrowing emergency calls last weekend left no doubt the busy season has begun for search and rescue staff at CFB Trenton. ...
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Minnesota backpacker, friend rescued after call from Alaska wild
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Their rescue Wednesday evening came after a long day in which helicopters, a small airplane, 10 ground searchers and two dog teams worked to pinpoint their ...
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Fight dogs hope for new home here
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Hill said her organization settled on Stray Rescue after a long, nationwide search "because they have a great reputation for working with these kinds of ...
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Mesa County Search And Rescue Pull Rafting Victims From Colorado River
KJCT8.com - Grand Junction,CO,USA
Tonight Mesa County search and rescue teams were called out to the Colorado River near Corn Lake, after reports of a rafting accident. Just after 7 tonight, ...
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Denali Park search yields no clues on missing hikers
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Three helicopters, an airplane, dog teams and 34 people on the ground have failed to find Abby Flantz, 25, of Gaylord, Minn., and Erica Nelson, 23, ...
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Park Service adds searchers looking for missing women at Denali ...
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA
Two fresh dog teams from the Alaska Search and Rescue Dog organization in Anchorage will replace Fairbanks dog searchers. Denali Park spokeswoman Kris ...
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Elderly man missing in county
Sherwood Park News - Sherwood Park,Alberta,Canada
The search continued Sunday around the acreage, with members of the Strathcona County RCMP, Edmonton Regional Search and Rescue and the Canadian Search Dog ...
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Search for rafter may continue
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
By ANGELA BRANDT - Independent Record - 06/18/08 The Lewis and Clark Search and Rescue team will meet Thursday to plan their strategy in the efforts to ...
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Search Courant.com Web enhanced by
Hartford Courant - United States
A dog also died in the fire, Flanagan said. There was also a point during the rescue effort that firefighters had to withdraw from the interior of the ...
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Rescued toy poodle becomes poster dog for puppy mill reform
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Judge Judith Sheindlin, better known as Judge Judy, posed with Baby along with rescue dogs on her large plush bed. Kohl asks her in the book what she would ...
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Ground, air and canine crews continue search for women missing in ...
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA
... will narrow it down" said Joe Sylvia with Matanuska Search and Rescue. "Ultimately that's what we are trying to do." Dogs are backing up that effort. ...
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Missing hikers found alive
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,N= M,USA
When the pair did not return to work at a nearby hotel two days later, a massive search and rescue effort began. With the help of helicopters, ...
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Mayor of Waterford City Cllr. Mary O Halloran will present the ...
Waterford Today - Waterford,Ireland
... present the 2006 and 2007 Ireland Medals on Saturday 21st June to retired Garda Commissioner Eamonn Doherty and Foyle Search and Rescue respectively. ...
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DeWitt Co. ESDA plans search group
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
That=92s why the DeWitt County farmer and volunteer is in a hurry to form a ground search and rescue team, which could begin training this fall. ...
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Search for couple continues / Witness may have met them shortly ...
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
Search and rescue operations have been hampered by large rocks and dirt covering the riverbanks, the police said. The police will mobilize heavy equipment ...
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Coast Guard suspends search in Lorain
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
... filing the report was drinking alcohol, officials said. The Coast Guard brought in a search helicopter from Detroit and a 41-foot rescue boat from Lorain.
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Search team rescues 20 off rooftops in KZN downpour
The South African Star - Johannesburg,South Africa
At least 20 people had to be rescued from rooftops on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast today, after heavy overnight downpours, the SAPS Search and Rescue Team ...
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One dead, five missing in KZN downpour
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Search and Rescue spokesperson Jack Haskins said some were even rescued from rooftops. "Our teams had to go on foot to Club Marina in Ifafa Beach and rescue ...
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More Searchers Arrive to Look for Missing Backpackers
By AAI(AAI)
These resources include a team from the Anchorage based Alaska Mountain Rescue Group, and search and rescue teams from Grand Teton, Mount Rainier, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, and Yosemite National Parks. Two fresh dog teams from the Alaska ...
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With just crumbs to eat and spirits falling, hikers' prayers answered
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Search teams came from Grand Teton, Mount Rainier, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, Yosemite and the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group. An aerial search began Saturday when ...
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Hiker Falls at Smith Rock
KOHD - Bend,OR,USA
Both Redmond fire and rescue as well as Deschutes County Search and Rescue responded to the incident. Kohd's Skytracker Helicopter caught these images of ...
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Minnesota backpacker, friend rescued after call from Alaska wild
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
It must have cost tens of thousands of dollars for the rescue (one estimate I read from a reliable source is that a search and rescue helicopter costs ...
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Lost hikers rationed food while awaiting rescue
The Associated Press -
What started as an overnight hike June 12 turned into an intensive search that cost more than $118000 and sometimes involved 100 people from state and ...
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The DNR's eyes in the sky
Grosse Ile Camera - Grosse Ile,MI,USA
The pilots assist the DNR Law Enforcement Division as well, flyingmissions for search and rescue, off-road vehicle surveillance and nightshining patrols. ...
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Valleau's family plans memorial fundraiser to benefit SAR
Whistler Question - B.C., Canada
When he didn=92t come home late in the evening, his family, RCMP and Tribal Police began a search. RCMP later called Search and Rescue, and Valleau=92s truck ...
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Mother thanks search and rescue team for saving her son's life
Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA
... the Siskiyou County search and rescue team, under the command of Cpl. Chris Callahan, put into action a rescue that was so organized and so expedient ...
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Tourney to help Search & Rescue
Signal - Santa Clarita,CA,USA
By Parimal M. Rohit That mantra will be on the minds of local golfers Monday, as the Santa Clarita Valley Search and Rescue Team is hosting a golf ...
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Eight die in floods
Daily News (subscription) - KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa
Emergency and search and rescue services worked feverishly last night with people needing to be rescued on land and at sea. They are also looking for the ...
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'Search and rescue' training site concerns northeast Marion residents
Leader on 200 - Wildwood,FL,USA
BY CHRISTOPHER CURRY A community meeting for residents concerned about a search and rescue training facility planned east of Citra and north of Fort McCoy ...
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San Rafael man rescued on Mt. Tam
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
About 25 members of the county's search and rescue team were joined by four dog teams, three mounted horse teams and officials with the California State ...
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Sharing the joy!
Country Messenger - Scandia,MN,USA
But he said "Dogs had an indication on the west side of Canute Creek across the road from the camp," said Taylor. "It was 6 o'clock and we were just about ...
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Autistic man found in NW Wisconsin
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Tracking dogs picked up a brief scent of Kennedy but then it just disappeared, the sheriff said. Kennedy, known as a wanderer, was seen walking southbound ...
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Rescue effort becomes search for body
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
Mounted horse-patrol and water-rescue crews combed 3.5 miles of the creek from where Brake was last seen. Search and rescue dogs searched spots where they ...
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A life in fiction
guardian.co.uk - UK
"Once, there were nine of us in the house and two dogs, and the dogs' hackles raised and the people were stopped in their tracks. ...
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Hope fading in search for missing woman in Beaver Creek
RealVail - Vail,CO,USA
Search and Rescue has utilized mounted horse patrol unites, water rescue crews, search and rescue dogs, a one-man boat, and aviation assistance from the ...
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Coast Guard assists in Helicopter crash off Vineyard
Cape Cod Today - South Dennis,MA,USA
=93The good Samaritan played a key role to ensure the safety of all the passengers of the helicopter,=94 said Ensign Colin McKee, a search-and-rescue controller ...
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Neb. woman still missing in Beaver Creek
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
By =93hotspots,=94 Cordingly was referring to parts of the creek where search dogs, which sniffed articles of Brake=92s clothing, picked up a scent but could not ...
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At dog school, staying is forbidden
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
The club has about 150 members and trains more than 16000 dogs a year, including search-and-rescue dogs. SOTC trains dogs from a beginning level to simply ...
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Missing woman found in the woods near Bonneville Dam
KEX - Portland,OR,USA
A bicyclist in the area spotted her, and reported her location to the Multnomah County Search and Rescue Team. She'd been picking flowers all day, ...
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Injured climber plucked off Mount Rainier by helicopter
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Wynn approved a rescue mission, then cleared it with his commander, based in Chicago. In addition, the US Air Force Search and Rescue Center Tyndall Air ...
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Grayson County Man Found After Being Lost In Woods
TriCities.com - Johnson City,TN,USA
Search dogs came from sheriff=92s offices in Smyth and Grayson counties, as well as from the North Carolina Search and Rescue Dog Association and Dogs East, ...
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Search-and-rescue worker shocked
By Admin
A search-and-rescue volunteer was flown to the University of California, Davis, Medical Center on Monday night after receiving an electric shock near the High Meadow trailhead, authorities said.
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Albany Man Found Dead
Neil R. Hebert, 61, of Albany was found dead late this morning on Marys Peak, the victim of an apparent suicide, according to Benton County Emergency Services...

'Play' motivates two canines to help find trapped people
...Hattie and Icon replace two recently retired dogs – Billy and Sherman – who are now their handlers' pets instead of lifesavers. The only other federally certified search-and-rescue dog in the county is in Chula Vista...

Cedar Rapids evacuation zones under lockdown
Gazette Online - Solon,IA,USA
Another Urban Search and Rescue Unit from Sioux City will assist, in hopes that the process can be expedited. Officials said property owners will be able to ...
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Rescue team takes on peaks
The Cornishman - Truro,England,UK
MEMBERS of the Cornwall Search and Rescue Team dashed from one end of the country to the other to climb four peaks in less than 36 hours. ...
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UCSAR on Katahdin
By Mick(Mick)
The Professor, the "Bairn" and Heavy all went to do rescue cover at the park for the weekend. We summited on Katahdin Saturday, and explored the west side on Sunday. A good weekend. Our Saturday expedition proved to us again the old ...
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West Hartford Man Thanks Rescue Teams
Hartford Courant - United States
The first group to reach me was the all-volunteer Manchester Mountain Bike Search and Rescue Team. It was a welcome sight to see Kurt Wagner and Dave Dunn, ...
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S Korea US to hold search-rescue exercise
Xinhua - China
SEOUL, June 16 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the US will conduct a joint search-rescue exercise, South Korean Air Force said Monday. Joined by South Korea Air ...
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Body Recovered in Arkansas River
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA
Pulaski County Search and Rescue recovered the body of a man who fell into the Arkansas River Friday night. Police say 24 year old Jonathan Pinkston walked ...
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20-year-old drowns at Pineview Reservoir
ABC 4 - Salt Lake City,USA
WEBER COUNTY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Search and rescue divers spent this Father's Day searching Pineview Reservoir for a missing boater. ...
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Search Continues for Missing Boater
KIMA CBS 29 - Yakima,WA,USA
By Rudabeh Shahbazi KENNEWICK-- Columbia Dive Rescue and Benton County Sheriff's deputies were out on the water all day Sunday, as the search continued for ...
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Blackfoot Pride Days
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
One fundraiser today was for the Bingham County Search and Rescue Team. They were providing pulled pork sandwiches, sloppy joes, Dutch oven peach cobbler, ...
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Quake lakes imperil rescue efforts / Landslides block rivers at 11 ...
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
The search for a construction worker feared buried in a landslide along the Ichihasamagawa river in Kurihara began early Sunday morning. However, rescue ...
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Local agencies, Guard save lives at Numa
Lahontan Valley News - Fallon,NV,USA
Churchill County Search and Rescue crews, each team assisted by a Fallon/Churchill County fireman, then entered the building, methodically searching each ...
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Battle to reach quake survivors
The Press Association -
The search for survivors - and efforts to recover the dead - were hampered by a series of powerful aftershocks that continued to rock the region. A rescue ...
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Rescuers battle buckled roads, aftershocks after Japan quake kills 6
Jerusalem Post - Israel
By AP Rescue teams using shovels and buckets tried to dig their way Sunday to seven people believed trapped in a landslide at a hot springs resort destroyed ...
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