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Nineteen people were rescued after the mast on their 40-foot boat broke amid high winds and crashed during Sunday's storm.
The twin-engine boat hit the bridge “at a high rate of speed” around 2 .m. Monday, said Kristen Livengood, a Monroe County Fire Rescue spokeswoman.
Orange County Fire Authority firefighters saved a woman and man from the San Juan Creek in San Juan Capistrano, California after receiving reports at 1:42 a.m. that they were trapped in the water ...
The rescue and recovery operations were coordinated by the United States Coast Guard. [1] [2] It is the worst maritime disaster in California since the sinking of the Brother Jonathan in 1865, and the deadliest in the United States overall since the USS Iowa turret explosion in 1989. [3]
The company’s main contribution to the war effort was the Air-Sea Rescue Boat. Two types of these vessels were built, a 63-foot (19 m) and a 104-foot (32 m). With 12-cylinder engines, they were designed to race out to crash sites and rescue wounded men, and hence were also known as “crash boats.”
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A Vickers Warwick bomber carrying the Uffa Fox-designed airborne lifeboat underneath. The first air-dropped lifeboat was British, a 32-foot (10 m) wooden canoe-shaped boat designed in 1943 by Uffa Fox to be dropped by Royal Air Force (RAF) Vickers Warwick heavy bombers for the rescue of aircrew downed in the Channel. [3]
The Weather Channel 12 hours ago Dual Winter Storms To Blanket Plains, Midwest And Northeast With Snow And Ice This Week New week, more snow and ice for the Northeast, Midwest and Plains.