When a Fremont County man was killed in an avalanche this past winter, the other members of his group used the relatively new ...

Crews say the minimum amount of time it takes to rescue someone is only a couple of hours, but if the helicopter can’t reach ...

NASA's collaboration with the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort known as Cospas-Sarsat has enabled the development of multiple emergency location beacons for explorers on land ...

They were able to use this feature to send text messages and share their location with first responders. Rescue teams had to navigate “thick smoke near an approaching wildfire” in a helicopter ...

The same NOAA satellites that followed the moon’s shadow along the path of the Total Solar Eclipse and tracked Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024, also helped rescue 411 people from life ...

A view of the Truchas Peaks complex in the Pecos Wilderness in September 2024. In May of 2021, a group of four women from Georgia encountered deep snow and got lost while backpacking in the area.

FEMA sending Starlink satellites, search-and-rescue teams to aid Helene’s victims. Administrator Deanne Criswell is confident that the agency has enough resources.

Last year, the NOAA satellites played a critical role in helping authorities find and rescue nearly 400 people who were lost at sea.

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Ann and H.J. Smead Engineering Sciences department is partnering with the Boulder Emergency Squad to evaluate the use of AI-enabled drones in search and ...