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.

Fire crews and trained search dogs from the Bay Area have been deployed to Texas to assist in ongoing rescue efforts as catastrophic flooding continues across the state. As of Wednesday, more than 160 people were missing and at least 100 have died, according to the Associated Press.

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!"

Eyewitness News got an exclusive look at the FDNY Water Rescue Unit training exercise to rescue distressed swimmers on Staten Island on Thursday.

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.

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.

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

The Austin, Texas, fire chief is being accused of denying requests to send rescuers to Kerrville days before the catastrophic flooding — because of an $800,000 dispute with the state government.