Rescuer: Dog May Have Saved Climbers
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By SARAH SKIDMORE GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. - Three climbers who tumbled off a ledge on Mount Hood were taken away in an ambulance after they hiked down much of the state's highest peak with their rescuers - and a dog who may have saved their lives.
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RICHLAND, Wash. - Leana Beasley has faith that a dog is man's best friend. Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.
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FLORENCE, Ala. - A painter with a crew working at an apartment complex in Florence became a lifesaver when he caught a small dog as it fell from a fifth-floor balcony.
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Sniffer rescue dogs trained to find explosives or earthquake survivors buried in rubble may soon have some competition -- rats. The rodents can crawl into the tiniest spaces and have a strong sense of smell.
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RICHLAND, Wash. - Faith the service dog phoned 911 when her owner fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the 4-year-old Rottweiler unlocked the front door so the responding police officer could come in.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.
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An Australian climber who was left for dead on the slopes of Mount Everest but later survived has been rescued from the mountain and is in &quot;amazing shape,&quot; his spokesman said Tuesday.
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A New Zealand cave explorer injured in rock slide was pulled to safety early Tuesday by rescuers who spent three days carrying him to the surface, at times lying down in narrow passages and passing his stretcher hand-over-hand.
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A pair of climbers who misjudged the weather on Mount Hood and got caught in whiteout conditions were taken to safety Tuesday after spending a night in a snow cave.
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DENVER - A black Labrador named Pearl who plunged through thin ice on a Denver lake Tuesday was reunited with her owner after a firefighter in a dive suit scooted along the ice and scooped up the scrambling pooch. The rescue was caught on video by two television stations.
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Rescuers searching for three missing climbers on Mount Hood in Oregon have located a snow cave, some equipment and what appears to be a âYâ carved into the snowy flanks of the mountain, and crews were converging on the location to see if there was any sign of the men, officials said today.
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SHAVER LAKE, Calif. -- Seizing on a break in the weather Thursday, rescuers managed to locate 19 hikers reported missing in a blizzard that also killed two climbers stranded on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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By Leslie Fike, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Mar. 2--FORT WALTON BEACH   -- The rescue of a family of seven dogs from a culvert near Baker School ended sadly late Wednesday.   The mother didn't make it through the night.
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BOZEMAN, Montana - A dog survived a flight in an eagle's claws then endured a week of sometimes subfreezing weather before finding its way home, a veterinarian said Wednesday.
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While some 150,000 people were killed by last month's tsunami, few animals seem to have been caught off guard. Do animals have a sixth sense about such danger?
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By Lynda V. Mapes, Seattle Times  Jun. 14--Five years after Springer's rescue, the orphaned orca's relocation to her pod in the wild appears to be an unqualified success.
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Aron Ralston, the Colorado climber  who saved his life by cutting off his own hand after he became  trapped under a boulder last year, calls the experience a  "miracle and a blessing."