Rescuers in a sentence

Because rescuers were unaware they were dealing with gas casualties, many additional casualties were caused among the rescuers, through contact with the contaminated skin and clothing of those more directly exposed to the gas.

A five-story building had been reduced to a mound of concrete slabs and twisted metal, but for four hours the rescuers worked, convinced they had heard noises.

After sunrise, rescuers turned to cranes and other heavy machinery to start moving large pieces of the trains, revealing more bodies and dismembered remains.

After what seemed like an interminable wait, rescuers came to the spot and extricated me from the coach,” Mr. Laskar told at Vijayawada Railway Station.

A ladder allowed rescuers to reach the windows.

A lot of people ask for help," said Iryna, 45, one of the volunteer rescuers.

A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said.

A mudslide in the city of Xi’an has left at least 21 people dead, and rescuers are continuing to search for at least six more believed missing.

And from that moment until mid-April, I went with rescuers all over Kyiv,” Petrov continues, adding that his work now takes him to the most intense frontlines across Ukraine.

A residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike, where rescuers recovered the body of a 10-year-old boy debris, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 6, 2023.

A team of rescuers has since been searching fields in Stalham and the surrounding areas, using drones and quad bikes to track down the escapees.

A total of 21 European countries, including Montenegro and Albania, have contributed 1,185 rescuers and 79 search dogs to the effort.

Before her discovery, Charlotte’s family had pleaded with the public to share her photo widely in hopes of finding her, even as reporters and rescuers descended on the park, a popular area, with dense forest and undergrowth, and a small lake.

Brave rescuers eliminate the consequences of Russian terror.

Crashes here seldom see survivors, so rescuers were surprised to see that “the 4-year-old girl, 9-year-old and two adults” in the car survived the fall, which damaged the Tesla so badly the doors jammed shut.

Five days after two powerful earthquakes hours apart caused thousands of buildings to collapse, killing more than 28,000 people and leaving millions homeless, rescuers were still pulling unlikely survivors from the ruins—one of them just 7 months old.

He said the GPS-encoded emergency beacon had saved the men’s lives by allowing rescuers to quickly pinpoint their location and mount an appropriate rescue.

He was pulled from the well by rescuers after the lengthy operation that captured global attention.

Indian rescuers said Saturday they had paused efforts to reach 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel after a cracking sound created a “panic situation” over the possibility of a further cave-in.

Indonesian rescuers scrambled Friday to find survivors under mud-swamped hillsides after flash floods on Java island killed at least eight people, the disaster agency said.