Rescue

The Days End Farm Horse Rescue will have its third annual fall festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.Pony rides, a petting zoo, riding demonstrations, a costume contest, horses in costume, pumpkin decorating, games and food will be featured. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children under 12 or $5 for a family.Days End, a nonprofit organization, rescues abused and neglected horses and restores them to health before adopting them out to caring families.The farm is at 15856 Frederick Road, Lisbon.

A Carroll County resident was a behind-the-scenes participant in the Bosnia rescue operation of Air Force Capt. Scott F. O'Grady.David R. Jordan of Linwood is a Navy airman who works with Marine helicopters aboard the USS Kearsarge, the amphibious assault ship that launched the rescue team. The Kearsarge, commissioned in 1993, carries a crew of 1,000 sailors.Airman Jordan, 21, joined the Navy in August and left Norfolk, Va., for duty in the Mediterranean Sea in April.His last letter said he was in the Adriatic," said Janet Long, his mother.

Maryland's emergency medical system has relinquished it role as a leader in bringing the most advanced lifesaving skills to patients wherever they are injured, say some of the state's top trauma specialists.Inside and outside Maryland, experts are astonished that many rescue companies do not practice a technique considered the "gold standard" of delivering oxygen to patients who have stopped breathing. The technique, called endotracheal intubation, brings air directly to the lungs via a plastic tube inserted into the windpipe.

WASHINGTON -- Within minutes of receiving word that an Air Force pilot was down in Yugoslavia, an elite air commando team took off from its base in Brindisi, Italy, to rescue the flier from deep inside enemy territory.The F-117 Nighthawk fighter went down at 2: 50 p.m. EST, 50 to 70 miles northwest of Belgrade, according to a military officer knowledgeable with the rescue operation and who spoke only on condition of anonymity.A commando team launched "nearly immediately" from their base at Brindisi, guided to the crash site by a pair of E-3 AWACs surveillance aircraft, the officer said.

In a dramatic aerial rescue, three electricians who were stranded for more than two hours atop a 130-foot water tower at a Curtis Bay chemical plant were plucked from the roof by helicopter.The three electricians -- Jeffrey Magee, 27, Donald Testerman, 25, and Stephen Nowacki, 20, all employees of the North American Electric Co. -- had climbed a ladder to the tower about 9 a.m. to repair an airplane warning light and rusted conduit at the SCM Chemical Co. in the 3900 block of Fort Armistead Road.

Neighbors rescued an East Baltimore woman last night after she was beaten and bound in her Jefferson Street home and apparently left to die as her attacker set fire to the house and fled, police said. Last night, police took into custody a former boyfriend of the woman's cousin. Police declined to identify the man, who was being interviewed by investigators at the Southeastern District. Romaine Vance, 32, was saved by two men in their late teens or early 20s, who looked in the window of the burning home in the 2800 block of Jefferson St. and saw Vance struggling to free herself from rope that bound her, said police spokesman Agent Donny Moses.

The fireboat in Stony Creek was a bit like having a fire station in your back yard, according to some Riviera Beach residents. It was ideal when there was an emergency, but not so appealing when there wasn't. Deciding the boat was more of a safety liability than an asset, the Sunset Beach Improvement Association asked the Riviera Beach Volunteer Fire Company to remove it this season, which has happened. The volunteer company still has a boat in Rock Creek, which is a good location from which to send out rescue operations and fight fires on boats in the Patapsco River.

A post office letter carrier got the credit yesterday for possibly saving the life of a 71-year-old farmer whose leg was trapped between the wheel and fender of his tractor in subfreezing temperatures for more than an hour.Russell Ray of the 5600 block of Olde Oak Drive, between Mount Airy and Taylorsville, was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after fire and rescue workers freed him.A hospital spokeswoman said Mr. Ray had no major injuries and was to be released last evening.

With the White House and Pentagon facing mounting criticism over their handling of the war in Iraq, what's one more television report attacking their credibility? Perhaps not all that much when measured against the sheer mass of media questions as to whether there really were stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to obtain uranium. But War Spin: Jessica Lynch, a British report airing tonight on BBC America, does take allegations that the U.S. government purposefully misled the public to a new level that warrants consideration.

MEMBERS OF local fire companies will be out raising funds Sept. 14 for a memorial that organizers hope to build in Annapolis to honor fallen comrades. Organized by Don Mooney, a longtime member of the Lansdowne Volunteer Fire Company, the Maryland Fire-Rescue Services Memorial Foundation was formed to create a memorial to honor the sacrifices of emergency services personnel statewide. "Our foundation has identified 325 men and women in our state's fire, EMS and rescue services who have died in the line of duty since the 1840s," Mooney said.