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 ...

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

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 ...

In response, FEMA is sending in search-and-rescue teams and bottled water, as well as trying to get water systems back online, not only in North Carolina but the other states impacted too.

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

Given all of the planned international lunar activity, emergencies could happen that will call for a search and rescue organization on the moon.

Another tool search and rescue teams can use is called SARLOC. This technology involves sending a text to a person’s phone with a link.

Ray stated that during search and rescue missions, there’s a lot of moving parts, and that delegating tasks to the AI-enabled drones could free up some hands.

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 ...

NOAA’s polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites are part of the global Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system, or COSPAS-SARSAT.

A group of stranded hikers in British Columbia is crediting Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite feature for allowing them to call for help. As reported by the CBC, the hikers were stranded on a ...

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