Rescue Workers

A 64-year-old sailor was rescued after he became injured on his boat on the Severn River Saturday. According to the Coast Guard, a crew member aboard a 22-foot sailboat called the Joe Joe Bean called for rescue workers around noon Saturday to help a sailor suffering from head, neck and back injuries aboard the boat, at the mouth of the Severn River near Annapolis. Emergency workers responded from the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Maryland Natural Resources Police and the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

A quiet Baltimore County neighborhood was riveted yesterday by the drama of dozens of rescue workers painstakingly digging for eight hours to free a plumber from a caved-in trench.Jere David Kates, 28, receiving oxygen and strapped to a backboard, was lifted out on a harness about dusk, after being trapped in dirt since morning, into the glare of spotlights. He managed to give a thumbs-up sign to cheering rescuers and spectators."You laughed, you cried, you just cheered," said Kathi Albanese, a neighborhood resident and plumber's wife who noted, "You don't know the man, but you pray."

Gayland Buckingham had a great fall.It took 40 Howard and Montgomery County firefighters 4 1/2 hours -- and a crane -- to pick the 375-pound construction worker up again, after he fell 8 feet into a trench yesterday on a building site in West Friendship."

A few hours after a Pennsylvania family left for a weeklong beach vacation, their minivan overturned on Interstate 95 just outside Columbia, killing a 15-year-old girl and leaving three people critically injured yesterday, police said.Philadelphia residents Michael Davis, 44, Alexis Murial Davis, 42, their three children, and Alexis Davis' mother, sister and nephew were heading south on I-95 at 8: 09 a.m. when their Mercury Villager suddenly drove off the highway, flipped and crashed into the guardrail about 50 feet from the Route 175 exit, police said.

Record - 116 DIALOG(R)File 714:(Baltimore) The Sun (c) 2004 Baltimore Sun. All rts. reserv.05788201 RESCUE WORKERS MAKE ANOTHER DELIVERYCounty rescue workers delivered a baby girl en route to the hospital during a maternity call Thursday, the second time in a month that paramedics have played the midwife role.The baby, Caitlyn Neva Kauffman, was delivered in the ambulance at 6:58 p.m. along Route 32, just a short distance from her family's Mount Airy home, rescue workers said.A rescue report said the baby and her mother, Doris Kauffman, 20, "were doing fine" Friday at Howard County General Hospital.

WHEN THE tornado struck College Park, Evelyn Graf was one of the lucky ones. The Pasadena woman missed, by only a few minutes, the fury of the twister that leveled her office at the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, injuring co-workers and ending the lives of two young sisters. When Graf left work just after 5 p.m. Monday, seven colleagues at the institute were inside its construction trailer. Heading home on U.S. 1, approaching Beltsville, she watched the storm clouds darken in her rearview mirror.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- The Iraqi Scud missile that dropped through low clouds after slipping past two defensive missiles fell to the mournful accompaniment of air raid sirens last night on a quiet residential neighborhood.Its toll will be measured in lives, and in Israel's trust of others to protect them.Initial reports said three elderly residents had died from cardiac arrest from the 8:35 p.m. explosion, the third Scud attack against Israel in a week. At least 98 other people were hurt, three severely.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- This is a city trying to comfort itself.Eleven days after the nightmare bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the funerals go on. The rescue workers -- by now certain they are not going to rescue anyone more -- continue their struggle to recover bodies.The families who have heard nothing still wait, as volunteers -- strangers -- hold their hands.This is a place where 300 clergy members signed up to counsel families and another 300 volunteered to talk to the hundreds on weary search teams, where schoolchildren decorate pillowcases for the rescuers' cots with thank-you messages.

When a deadly earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, and Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana seven years ago, humans weren't the only creatures in distress. Countless horses and other animals also needed help, and emergency teams from the Woodbine-based Days End Farm Horse Rescue came to their aid. The 58-acre farm in Woodbine, established in 1989, has carved out an international reputation for its work training first responders, animal control officers,...

A passenger bus careened across a highway median strip and into oncoming traffic on Baltimore-Washington Parkway ,X yesterday, leaving eight people seriously injured and snarling rush-hour traffic between the two cities, authorities said.Police said four vehicles were involved in the accident, which caused a four-mile backup and forced police to divert cars from the northbound and southbound lanes of Route 295.Three of the injured were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, U.S. Park Police said, adding that none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.