#rescue-efforts

#rescue-efforts

Local police believe the building's deteriorating structure, worsened by recent heavy rainfall, may have caused the collapse. Some of the injured are in critical condition, senior police officer Amit Kumar told the Press Trust of India.

Oakland Animal Services, despite budget cuts, continues to provide refuge for homeless animals. The City Council recently allowed the shelter to turn away rescued animals.

I began to notice the cats. About a dozen lingered, lazy yet alert, behind my apartment complex. Whenever someone approached, they scattered and hid beneath the building.

Evelyn Kidd has taken it upon herself to rescue diamondback terrapins from storm drains in Ventnor, New Jersey, passing down this important tradition to her children.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will close the local commercial Dungeness crab season starting June 20 to address the serious entanglement situation affecting a juvenile humpback whale.

"The integrity of that mine is starting to become compromised," Trooper Steve Limani told reporters, indicating the dangers rescuers faced as they searched for Elizabeth Pollard.