Rescues and Evacuations

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (197+ words) A crash Friday night blocked off parts of two roads in Pfafftown, and a witness told WXII 12 News that she heard and saw the collision. According to a tip from multiple audience members, a crash blocked parts of Olivet Church…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (464+ words) Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, it's the first scenes that still loom large in many Americans' memories. The moments of impact. The clouds of smoke. The sight of survivors holding cloths to their mouths. Those moments, however, have ballooned into…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (312+ words) A 3-year-old girl in Rusk, Texas, became a hero when she helped save her mother, Aiden Wilkie, during a grand mal seizure earlier this year. "I didn't know what was happening, I couldn't hear or see anything, so it was…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (101+ words) An 18-year-old Chester man with non-verbal autism has been missing since the early morning hours of Tuesday, last seen walking away from a home on Mount Pleasant Church Road wearing only undergarments. Alexander Porter stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (236+ words) A water rescue call at Ebenezer Boat Landing on Lake Wylie turned into a tense overnight search Monday after a person jumped from a boat and never came back up. Multiple agencies converged on the York County landing around 7:40 p.m., and…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (120+ words) A hiker who trusted Google Maps as his only guide through Linville Gorge ended up spending a cold, foodless night stranded off-trail, deep in one of North Carolina's most rugged wilderness areas, before rescuers reached him the next morning. Officials…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (112+ words) A drowning was reported at Falls Lake on Monday afternoon. The Wake County Sheriff's Department responded around 2:30 p.m. to reports of a swimmer drowning near the 14600 block of Creedmoor Road, near Sandling Beach. After a four-hour search, first responders recovered a…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (396+ words) New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions around Ground Zero were unsafe to breathe despite repeated assurances to the public....

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (181+ words) A fire at a wedding party in Congo's capital Kinshasa, left at least 22 people dead, the regional mayor said Saturday. Several others were injured. Video above: Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Congo erupts The fire started Friday night and continued…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (207+ words) Rescuers in Nepal pulled a second worker alive from a tunnel Friday, Nepal lawmaker Shri Ram Neupane said. He posted the rescue on his Facebook shortly after army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet confirmed the first rescue during the…...