Rescue

Some ingenuity and strength likely helped save a mountain biker who tumbled down a rocky cliff Thursday in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles.

Rescuers say the man’s strength and a makeshift tether fashioned by his friends likely saved his life. Video broadcast Friday April 16, 2021 on Today in LA.

A Canadian family’s one-and-a-half-year-old Maremma mix dog is being hailed as a hero. Clover the dog’s quick thinking helped a girl who had a seizure while on a walk.

A man dining out at the Wharf Saturday night is being credited with saving a boy’s life after the child fell into the Washington Channel.

An on-board fire Tuesday night disabled the vessel amidst 50 mph winds and 30-foot waves south of Nova Scotia.

The U.S. Coast Guard and several other agencies rescued 66 people stranded on ice floes after fishing in a bay in northeastern Wisconsin.

Rescuers in northern China have brought 11 workers safely to the surface two weeks after they were trapped by an explosion in a gold mine.

The dramatic rescue of a 93-year-old-woman from a fire was captured by News Chopper Alpha 4 Friday Morning. Neighbors were worried a fire like this could happen in the last years. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021.

A pregnant bobcat that was likely hit by a car in mid-December has since been released back to the wild after being treated by the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) for a fractured jaw.

An off-duty Chino Hills deputy and group of good Samaritans helped pull a woman from a burning car Sunday.

Living up to his oath as an officer, even when off-duty,  San Bernardino County deputy pulled a woman out of a wreckage of a mangled car moments before it burst into flames in the freeway. Kathy Vara reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2021.

Josh Hug was using his drone to shoot video of big waves in Pacifica when he saw a woman in danger of being swept to sea. Garvin Thomas reports.

The 66-year-old man and his dog were recovering after falling through the ice shortly after 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, KSL reports.

A fisherman and his pup took an unexpected icy plunge into the Mantua Reservoir in Utah Monday, but were thankfully rescued in a caught-on-camera ordeal, KSL/NBC News reported.

Two people were rescued in a fire that burned a home south of downtown Los Angeles.

Two people were rescued in a fire that burned a home in the Central-Alameda area. Video broadcast Monday Dec. 7, 2020 on Today in LA.

The Rancho Coastal Humane Society will take in 23 puppies, adolescent, and adult dogs from the Mexican state of Sonora Saturday morning — the latest in a series of lifesaving transports from Rescue Fenix in Obregon, working hand-in-paw with the humane society and Greater Good Charities.

A young bobcat that was nursed to health in the San Diego area after being badly burned in a San Bernardino County wildfire was returned to its natural habitat Tuesday for release back into the wild.

A Napa man is recovering in the hospital after being trapped under a boulder Monday.

Body camera footage shows the moment Ohio police saved a woman who crashed into a river over the weekend.