rescue
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He spent his own childhood in a house in Surrey filled with rescue animals and said it helped inspire the passion for wildlife that later shaped his career.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Los Angeles County Fire Department got a call around 7:43 p.m. for a marine rescue to recover three people from the water, agency spokesperson Jonathan Torres said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Mohammad Hashim, a farmer, said he rushed to rescue residents after the pre-dawn attack.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Many stores struggled until Jobs’s product pipeline came to the rescue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Without a thought he leaped to her rescue, ignoring Jonn's shout of surprise.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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Formed in 1935, it currently has more than 80 volunteers who regularly attend mountain and cave rescues, as well as assisting in other public service incidents.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were hit by flash flooding leading to water rescues, stranded motorists and half-marathon runners struggling through waist-deep flood waters.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
All rescues involved San Diego Fire-Rescue Department lifeguards and personnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The store donates a portion of proceeds to local cat rescues, such as Kitten Rescue Los Angeles, Northeast L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The idea was that people seal themselves in the pop- tent, then the rest of the crew drives to wherever they are in the other rover and rescues them.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Two of them — Devries and the pilot — were pronounced dead, and two were rescued and taken to mainland hospitals, where they were stable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Four people were rescued and one person remained missing Wednesday night after the crash of a medevac helicopter off Catalina Island, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Gissing, who was rescued from Prague in 1939 at the age of 11, lost most of her family during the Holocaust and ended up settling in the UK after the war ended.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Catholics believe that in 1717, three fishermen watched in wonder as their nets spilled over with fish after they rescued a wooden statue of Our Lady of Aparecida from the river.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Since they’d rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome, Nico had slept very little and eaten even less, as if he were still subsisting on those emergency pomegranate seeds from the Underworld.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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There will also be £65m allocated to rescuing businesses and buildings at risk of closure, and a further £20m allocated to help communities set up co-operative businesses and let out empty units.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He said rescuers had called into the tunnel: "Don't worry, we are rescuing you."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Nepalese army and armed police forces have been rescuing flooding victims, although many rescuers are struggling to reach the disaster zone on the Tibet side.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Remote-piloted drones help to deliver supplies and evacuate the wounded, rescuing servicemen, Ukraine’s most valuable resource, but they remain labor intensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
For rescuing the royal treasury and enabling Zosma to pay its army and avoid war?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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