Tag Archives: Rescue

Over the past week, Yosemite National Park Rangers have conducted a variety of Search and Rescue operations, all with successful results. These ranged from a complex high angle rescue on El Capitan, to the rescue of a family pet. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/junesars.htm

Yosemite National Park Search and Rescue Park Rangers completed a complex, high angle, helicopter rescue on El Capitan on Monday afternoon, September 26, 2011, in which an Austrian climber severed his thumb. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/elcapsar911.htm

A ten year old boy was pronounced dead and a six year old boy remains missing following an incident near the Vernal Fall Footbridge in Yosemite National Park yesterday. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/vernalsar812.htm

Yosemite National Park Rangers and Search and Rescue Personnel completed a high angle, high risk rescue on El Capitan, in Yosemite Valley, on Monday, October 22, 2012, in which a stranded Canadian climber was at risk for hypothermia. The summit of El Capitan, 7,569 feet above sea level, is the …

Four Yosemite National Park employees received Valor Awards at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on yesterday, Thursday, May 8, 2014. The rangers were recognized and honored for their valorous efforts from a complex and technical rescue on El Capitan in September 2011. The awards were given to two Yosemite National …

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group in Boise, Idaho has awarded Yosemite National Park Helitack member Heather Wonenberg the 2018 Outstanding Wildfire EMS Individual of the Year Award. This award recognizes and honors individuals who have demonstrated outstanding work, actions, or programs in emergency medical service for our Nation’s Wildland Firefighters. …

The Merced County Sheriff’s Office rescued four rafters on July 3, 2017 who were stuck to a tree in the Merced River near Henderson Park in Snelling. mvelez@mercedsun-star.com … Click to Continue »

Merced County Sheriff’s deputies rescued four women who were stranded on rafts in the Merced River near Snelling. The rafters began floating down the river at Henderson Park in Snelling … Click to Continue »

After hearing a woman’s screams inside a large metal container, investigators sawed and pried open the bin, rescuing the woman who had been chained inside for about two months by … Click to Continue »

After hearing a woman’s screams inside a large metal container, investigators sawed and pried open the bin, rescuing the woman who had been chained inside for about two months by … Click to Continue »

Volunteers with the Merced Rescue Mission serve breakfast to homeless at the Calvary Assembly of God Church located at 1021 R Street in Merced, Calif., on Friday, June 9, 2017. … Click to Continue »

On Sunday, May 21, 2017, the California Highway Patrol Central Division Air Operations, H-40, helped the Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District rescue two stranded kayakers on the Stanislaus River. Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District posted this video on its Facebook page. … Click to Continue »

Rescue dogs and their inmate trainers celebrated their accomplishments at a graduation ceremony on Friday at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla. The dogs will go on to the next level of training before becoming service dogs for military veterans. The prisoners learn responsibility and training the dogs provides a sense …