On Friday, a family of four, among them 39-year-old Yuji Hu of Calgary, Canada, visited Garrapata State Beach, south of Carmel. Amid 15 to 20-foot waves, Hu's daughter was "swept off the shoreline" and into the ocean, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said. Both Hu and the girl's mother entered the water to attempt to rescue her, but only the mother was able to swim back to the shore.
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On June 13, 2023, the rusty fishing trawler Adriana, overloaded with as many as 750 migrants nearly double its official capacity was en route from Libya to Italy when it came into distress. According to accounts by Greece's coast guard, the people on board "refused any help," leaving the coast guard to observe the situation and launch a search and rescue operation after the boat sank.
It's been almost two years since the traumatic day when I had to be rescued while traveling solo in South Africa. While I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, that sunny Monday morning in Table Mountain National Park is forever etched into my memory. I did a lot of things wrong that day-for starters, hiking alone on a dangerous trail.
A hiker died on Mount Whitney last weekend, falling off a cliff on a steep part of the trail, Inyo County Search & Rescue said. The fall was reported on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 25, on the 99 Switchbacks portion of the main trail up the 14,505-foot Eastern Sierra peak. High winds prevented a helicopter team's recovery of the body until Monday, the search team said.
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Crews on Saturday responded to a report about several people who fell in the water at the mouth of Tomales Bay near Tomales Point in "rough ocean conditions," the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said in a social media post. The call came in at 11:53 a.m. from someone on the shore, Emily Fuller, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office, told SFGATE.
Once we learned [Kerr County was] affected, we knew we had to come down here. We know this was a mission to come and help our brothers," Aldaba said. "We just [wanted] to make sure that we can work as fast as we can and try to make some headway with all the things we had to do.
A man from Sandwich, Massachusetts, was rescued from a hiking trail on South Moat Mountain in New Hampshire on Friday. Around 4 p.m., N.H. Fish and Game received a report of a hiker experiencing severe cramps in his arms and legs approximately two miles from the trailhead. The man was hiking with a friend when the cramps started. After an hour of attempting to rehydrate, his friend called 911 as the cramping persisted, according to N.H. Fish and Game.
Matias Augusto Travizano successfully summited the mountain on Sept. 12. But on the way back down, he veered off trail and found himself trapped alongside another hiker on an ice sheet on the northern tip of Wintun Glacier at around 13,500 feet in elevation, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office. Realizing they had lost their way, the men attempted a controlled slide down the glacier to the safety of the trail below.
First responders on are the scene Friday, investigating a possible small plane crash in the mountains east of San Jose near Mount Hamilton. Crews arrived on the scene around 3:30 p.m. after receiving reports of a fire associated with a small plane crash. Multiple helicopters combed the area looking for the scene. One chopper landed and several firefighters hiked to an area that appeared to contain debris, but there was no obvious signs of fire.
Eight bodies were found earlier, including four people who were in a building that was swept away in the Kumbasari market area of South Denpasar, said Nyoman Sidakarya, the head of Bali's Search and Rescue Agency. Rain has caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through nine cities and districts in Bali. Mud, rocks and trees tumbled on to mountainside hamlets and rising rivers submerged at least 112 neighbourhoods and resulted in several landslides, Bali's Disaster Mitigation Agency said in a statement.
OTSEGO COUNTY, Michigan (WWJ) A Michigan State Police helicopter crew found a woman who got lost in a state forest during a YouTube challenge on Saturday morning, officials said. Troopers with the state agency were at the Pigeon River State Forest in northern Michigan to help the Otsego County Sheriff's Office find a missing 36-year-old California woman. Police said she was a contestant in a YouTube survival challenge, had become lost on Friday evening and was reported missing at 5 a.m. Saturday.
Multiple agencies take part in massive search and rescue operation in the Shannon Estuary Emergency services called after person went overboard from ferry Teams recover person from the water but the condition of the passenger is not yet known Operation still live in the area Search and rescue teams have recovered a person who went overboard from a ferry in the Shannon Estuary this morning.
But Hey had training in search and rescue, so he struck up a conversation with Montgomery and asked a few important questions. Among them, he recalled: "Mate, have you got a backpack?" Montgomery's story was a long one. It touched down in places such as Vietnam and Alaska and ended with a helicopter ride to safety for Montgomery and a sober but ultimately uplifting lesson in wilderness survival rules for Troop 26.
The alarm was raised yesterday evening for the man who was climbing at Eastern Hall in Baltimore Harbour. It is understood the man, aged 27, is from Italy and that the alarm was raised by his girlfriend at around 8.20pm. Two Coast Guard Helicopers, Rescue 115 from Shannon and Rescue 117 from Waterford were involved in the search, which resumed at first light today.
