Hovering above the debris-strewn Guadalupe River, drone pilot Jordy Marks scans the flood-ravaged landscape with a quiet determination. As part of a civilian search and rescue team, Marks is helping guide ground crews to areas still untouched nearly a week after deadly floodwaters swept through Central Texas.

According to a new report Secretary Noem did not sign off on deploying FEMA’s urban search and rescue team to Texas until this Monday—more than three days after the floods struck. In the meantime, she was on Instagram crowd sourcing opinions about her official portrait.

Volunteers combing through debris piles from the devastating Central Texas flooding had to sniff out decaying bodies in the “chaotic” initial days of the search-and-rescue efforts.

Clients can either adopt or get a donation in their name after closing with DJ Soucy. He works exclusively with Pet Pal, a St. Pete No Kill shelter.

Firefighters rescued dozens of people from a mixed commercial and residential high rise in Chile’s capital Thursday, plucking some from windows and balconies with ladder trucks and others from the roof by helicopter after a fire started in the building’s basement.

Humanitarian efforts to transport young refugees to safety during World War II faced bureaucratic and political hurdles. Many were left behind.

On the one-year anniversary marking the passing of Christie Williams' dog, she decided to volunteer in his honor to give a canine from animal control a "freedom ride" to whichever rescue agreed to take them. But when she arrived and met Sarah, a blue nose pit bull, there was an instant connection.

A water rescue in the Hudson River was suspended after emergency personnel were unable to locate a diver who allegedly went missing in the water Thursday evening, authorities said. Officers received a 911 call for a water rescue at around 6:30 p.

NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft took off from Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston on Tuesday, and will conduct aerial surveys using its DyNAMITE (Day/Night Airborne Motion Imager for Terrestrial Environments) sensor.

Leigh Stephens told Newsweek it's "hilarious that I learned dog commands before I learned basic future tense verbs or how to schedule a doctor's appointment!"

Park rangers in Colorado rescued a woman from drowning at the Horsetooth Reservoir on Thursday afternoon.