Fragments from a Russian missile fired at Kyiv landed a mere 300 meters from the Help Animals of Ukraine (HAU) wild animal rescue center, injuring Yuna, a lioness recently rehabilitated, the organization said on Facebook on Jan. 2. Read also: Russian occupiers pillage Askania-Nova Nature Reserve, committing ecocide The impact of the missile fragments resulted […]
More than 100 people were rescued from an ice floe that apparently broke free from a fishing area along the shore of Upper Red Lake in Minnesota on Friday evening, authorities said. Of the 122 taken to safety, four had fallen into the icy waters during an earlier rescue attempt by bystanders using a canoe, […]
A young seal found badly injured on the beach in Surf City on Christmas Day is resting and recovering, thanks to the work of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The non-profit, dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine mammals, received a report of the seal lying on the beach in Long Beach Island. […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Six people were pulled to safety after their recreational crabbing boat washed up onto rocks along the Oregon coast Friday evening. The boat lost power in Tillamook Bay, the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office said on their Facebook page. Deputy Billy Cloud said the boat washed up on the rocks near Lyster’s […]
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue units work to secure a tractor-trailer Saturday morning that was hanging over the bridge above the Beeline Highway on Florida’s Turnpike. First responders rescued the driver of a tractor-trailer Saturday morning that was dangling over the side of the bridge at the Beeline Highway overpass on Florida’s Turnpike in western […]
More than 300 people were rescued overnight from floodwaters in northeast Australia, with dozens of residents clinging to roofs, officials said. Cairns Airport was closed on Monday due to flooding and authorities were concerned that the city of 160,000 people will lose drinking water. While rain was easing in Cairns, severe weather warnings were in […]
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — More than 300 people were rescued overnight from floodwaters in northeast Australia, with dozens of residents clinging to roofs, officials said on Monday. Cairns Airport was closed on Monday due to flooding and authorities were concerned that the city of 160,000 people will lose drinking water. While rain was easing in […]
The pilot of a U.S. F-16 safely ejected from the aircraft before it crashed into the Yellow Sea off South Korea’s southwestern coast on Monday, according to the Air Force. Kunsan Air Base, located in Gunsan, South Korea, said in a statement that an F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing experienced an […]