Rescuers race flames to save pets, livestock
635970
In San Diego County, officials are racing, literally, to save pets and livestock left behind by hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing the raging wildfires.
757918
POCATELLO, Idaho - Firefighters resuscitated four cats and an albino rat from a charred apartment in southeastern Idaho.  The animals received oxygen through a special mask designed for small animals that the department got two years ago.
686938
Firefighters in Birmingham, England swung into action to rescue a guinea pig called Heidi after she got stuck inside an Action Man toy car.
646447
By Steve Johnson  A DOZEN Jersey calves were saved after a fierce blaze started by arsonists swept through a Sandwell farm.   The attack on Forge Mill Farm was the second in four years and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.
451762
POCATELLO, Idaho - Firefighters resuscitated four cats and an albino rat from a charred apartment in this southeastern Idaho city. The animals received oxygen after the Monday blaze through a special mask designed for small animals. The Pocatello Fire Department bought it two years ago.
766140
A pit bull who was recently adopted by a family after wondering onto a construction site may have saved a teen girl from a house fire on Friday.
502641
Veteran Chicago firefighters Larry and Leslie Muse have doused raging infernos, they&#39;ve made daring rescues, they&#39;ve buried comrades killed in the line of duty.
685295
Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.
365665
Volunteers are battling to save whales and dolphins who have beached themselves off the coast of Australia. More than a hundred of them have already died after getting stuck on beaches off Tasmania over the weekend.
141044
By ANDREW FORGRAVE Rural Affairs Editor  A WELSH wildlife charity is to launch its biggest ever conservation scheme to protect upland landscapes and communities.
493346
Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
468938
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The news from Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action.But marine scientist Steve McCulloch immediately saw this rescue was unique.
424287
Two dogs seized because they were believed to be pit bull-type animals have been saved from a death.
42181
By Erika Ray, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 10--When flames erupted from a barn stocked with bales of straw and hay east of Findlay in October, the Vanlue Volunteer Fire Department was notified of the emergency.   Six firefighters responded out of the 24 on its roster.
383043
Calm, cooler weather and unusually high humidity Friday helped firefighters battling a wildfire that had threatened hundreds of homes and burned four cabins.
598007
ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people were ready  to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered  animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six  people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
82521
Ducks and geese coated in crude oil were carried to a national wildlife refuge yesterday by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.