Rescue News

Sierra County's sheriff's office received a report of an accidental shooting death June 29, in the area of Pauley Creek, a forested area in northwestern Sierra County.

Victims' families struggled with grief and began making plans for services Wednesday as California Highway Patrol officers and Stanislaus sheriff's deputies continued to search the Delta-Mendota Canal south of ...

I am the co-chair of the California State Firefighters' Association's Valor Awards committee.

Mere feet from escape, a 20-year-old South Lake Tahoe man was tackled by El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies after allegedly trying to flee the courthouse in South Lake Tahoe on Friday.

Moving up a newborn faun, Gold Country Wildlife Rescue volunteer Diane Nicholas gets a spontaneous nuzzle.

Rescue crews on Thursday were searching for a pilot missing since he flew out of Truckee Tahoe Airport the day before.

Fire Now Burning on Three Fronts; Threatens to Cross Highway 154. Friday, July 4, 2008 Is it possible to imagine how much a community could be turned upside down in just 48 hours? Just two days ago I was in Big ...

The Gap Fire reaches 2,400 acres and it's just five percent contained. The blaze started on Camino Cielo, west of Highway 154, just before 6:00 p.m. Tuesday night.

General contractor Leah Waarvik is walking in the woods with her partner, Emma. Emma hurries on ahead in a state of high excitement, searching and searching.

An El Dorado County Sheriff's search and rescue volunteer is recovering from injuries after being electrically shocked while looking for two hikers in the Tahoe Basin on Monday.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District firefighter Michelle Arcediano provides information to registered nurse Rodney Vickery after bringing a patient to the Mercy San Juan Medical Center emergency room in ...

Rescue crews are searching the central Sierra Nevada in California for nine teenagers and two adult hikers who are missing in a rugged area of the mountains.

They found the perfect place to settle in for a Saturday evening, a quiet shoreline spot beneath a big tree with branches that sunk down into the Delta water.

North Valley Animal Disaster Group spokesperson Sandy Doolittle said things didn't go perfectly during last week's Ophir and Humboldt fires - but then, the all-volunteer organization did manage to help rescue ...

TODAY, June 18, is World Refugee Day , a day that has special significance for Nancy Avila.

Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, June 12, 2008 Story appeared in El DORADO FOLSOM RANCHO CORDO section, Page G4 Brian Mulhollen works in Cameron Park recently to clear part of a 100-foot-wide fuel break between ...

What follows is a list of needs and resources that are related to the Humboldt Fire.

Smoke from a fire in Bonny Doon at Martin Rd. and Ice Cream Grade Rd. can be seen from the top of the Summit off Hwy 17 at 4pm, June 11, 2008.

Crews suspended their search Friday night for a missing 78-year-old camper in the Desolation Wilderness, while a fellow camper was found dead.

Leaders in the Pro-Life movement have squared off over who owns the name Operation Rescue.