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I think the important thing to remember is in emergency management you prepare for the worst. Whether there had been a breach or topping of the levees you still need to be getting rescue people in there immediately.

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

It goes without saying that their lives are exposed to extreme danger, so we need to rescue them from that area so they can go back to their loved ones.

It is not as simple as driving right up into the city of New Orleans and starting a rescue as we might be able to do in other disasters, such as an earthquake.

It is not only about the ones that are still here that we worry about but also about the others that are still in Louisiana. They are still trying to get pets out of the city. Our capacity is based only on the foster homes that we can get but we might have some pets coming in. That is a possibility. The need is still there. Most rescue groups get broadcast messages on animal in distress and pet finders and they are still trying to find homes for these pets.

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

It is important to rescue the people who are working hard to come up with new ideas if we are to have any chance of confronting the big issues in our world.

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

It is an act of historic justice that the U.S. government, which in 1941 interfered with Bingham's rescue activity, is now publicly recognizing that Bingham was right, and, in effect, acknowledging that the Roosevelt administration was wrong.

Last summer we received a phone call from the Department of Justice requesting medals commemorating the fallen police officers and firefighters who died trying to rescue people during the 9/11 attacks. We did that order in record time. They know they can come to us and get high quality awards in the shortest time you can expect - but sometimes physics does limit some things.

I said, 'Hey, buddy, I came all the way from California to rescue you,'Ê

I said, 'Hey, buddy, I came all the way from California to rescue you,' 

Our hearts and prayers go out to those who lost their families or homes as a result of the hurricane. Re-establishing the vital communication link into the area is essential to the rescue and recovery effort. This is what we do and Optus employees are very pleased our expertise will be of assistance to those affected.

Our staff went into it with the understanding that Stephanie wanted as many cats off her property as soon as possible. On Saturday, she said she just wanted to get out of the rescue business.

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Our case is going full-steam ahead to rescue the vote of 4.6 million Californians from Mayor Gavin Newsom's abusive power. The renegade mayor of San Francisco is openly violating California law that holds marriage is only for a man and a woman.

Residents in the area said they heard an explosion. Air rescue teams are traveling to the area right now by air and by land.

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors feared to have been trapped under the ruins.

rescue service isn't working, just as it wasn't working back then.

Rescue Me' will explore the lives of firefighters through their relationships with each other, their families and their bookies.

Rescue here is not guaranteed. Our motto has been: your emergency may not be our emergency.

Responses to this request for information will assist the agency in determining an appropriate course of action as necessary to improve mine rescue capabilities.

Our rescue workers are expecting not just seriously injured people, but also people suffering from hypothermia.

Our rescue teams have been working since early this morning.

People needed to evacuate the city. That was the message the mayor was sending, ... Our people could have hampered the rescue effort. We were meeting buses of evacuees when they would come to different areas. What the Red Cross does during a national response is feeding and sheltering, and we were positioned well for that.

People in the streets of Hancock County were cheering for the RIUSAR team as they were driving down the streets - yelling 'thank you Rhode Island, ' ... The people of this community are so thankful that even without having a home, they are offering up food and water to the rescue teams in appreciation for all they are doing.

Some of the situations that they would be useful in would be during search and rescue operations, ... The camera basically picks up heat information and shows us where it's emitting on the screen inside the patrol car.

Someone needs to rescue France from its self-proclaimed malaise. Close to a quarter of its young people are unemployed, but they're too busy burning cars to look for jobs.

Some people are trapped in their homes, but we can't rescue them until the winds die down.

Local authorities are prohibiting or strongly discouraging people from returning to homes they have evacuated. So as we gather details of where pets were left behind, we'll be working with all the other rescue teams and organizations to pick them up and reunite them with their families.

I witnessed firsthand what happens when the federal government fails to protect public health after disaster strikes, ... The long-term impact on human health -- and public confidence in government -- is devastating. Sierra Club's report is a wake-up call that it could happen again, and I confess that I am concerned for the rescue workers and residents facing the aftermath of the Katrina Hurricane. We need a full investigation of what happened at Ground Zero and what our government plans to do in all future emergencies.

It is completely incomprehensible why the British have the necessary technology, but we don't. If we can't make effective rescue equipment ourselves, we need to buy it abroad.

I'm still here watching. I called two animal rescue services and, you know what, neither one offered to help. I've got an eight-foot step ladder and a limb cutter if we need it.

We've tried desperately to rescue 250 people trapped in a Salvation Army facility. They've been trapped in there since the flood came in. Many are on dialysis machines.

We need the federal government to say that, when it doesn't conflict with human needs, federal responders can rescue animals and cooperate

We need people who can face the very worst and not quake. They need to have resilience and go 24-7 for a while. We only want to send in really strong teams at this point. We don't want to rescue the rescuers.

The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be criminals, is racist. The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.

That was a train wreck we saw in New Orleans, ... But if we can have a national plan that would address the search and rescue at this magnitude, (that) is what we're out to try to do.

We have offered all possible assistance for rescue and relief measures.

We just dealt with a rescue who literally held an animal for eight weeks and allegedly forced a payment to get that animal back.

We are aware that the immediate priority would be the rescue operation,

We hope that American shuttles will resume regular flights and we are offering our NASA colleagues the use of Soyuz as a rescue spaceship.

We have to rescue the university system. We can't send kids to school and have them come out with a $10,000 or $15,000 debt.

You also have to think outside the box. There's no manual for a technical rescue like this. If you wait and become reactive, you lose. Plain and simple. It's mandatory you think several steps ahead for a technical rescue.

We have a lot of students involved in either volunteer fire of rescue and it helps them by giving them some certification.

We've got rescue teams under way, and we're trying to get some holes drilled to get air samples.

We've made some inquiries. I know the animal rescue people documented a lot of what was going on.

We have to keep in mind that there was an explosion that consumed oxygen, that other contaminants are present in the atmosphere inside the mine, and that the rescue effort is being done carefully to ensure there is not another explosion.

We have very robust, well-trained combat search and rescue teams available to search for them.

We believe the fire burned for a while, even before we were called. But, nonetheless when we arrived on the scene, we were made aware that people were still in the building. Firefighters were able to rescue one person from a third-floor apartment and assisted several others.

We were going to rescue them or die trying.

Typically, urban search and rescue teams are used for earthquakes. But they're available for any kind of disaster.

You know the mine. Being on the mine rescue team gives you the chance to learn a lot of things about mining.

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

We followed every standard protocol for hurricanes, but the flooding was just astronomical. Twenty to 50 percent of the population (of New Orleans) had not evacuated. That's going to take a while to ramp up the rescue operations and support operations. It just doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.

We haven't reached the place where the explosion occurred. First we have to do all that's necessary to rescue our personnel. Then we can investigate what caused the explosion.

The president has been unambiguous in his mandate that we leave no stone unturned, and leave no efforts unexhausted in proceeding to do whatever we can to rescue people and alleviate suffering,

The problem with cold-water rescue is that most aren't successful.

We are doing everything we can to rescue any survivors. However, we do not know how many people may be missing. This is an extremely dangerous voyage that has resulted in many Haitian deaths in the past.

To have a dog highly trained in collapsed structure rescue and locate live human beings trapped below rubble-- who wouldn't want to do that?

We're not supposed to be sitting inside the church, we're supposed to go out in the community to help our brothers and sisters. To practice what we preach. Hopefully, it energizes people to do it again, go to the Rescue Mission or have other ideas.

The policymakers and political leaders in Memphis and Shelby County cannot accept a business-as-usual mentality if they hope to rescue the sinking ship that is the Memphis-area business climate.

What we have seen is degrees of rescue aid, and what I think we will continue to see is support for airlines being perhaps allowable as long as they can show they are making progress and not interrupting a process of consolidation.

We're not going to interfere with the hunt. But if a hunter loses an animal in the woods and fails to track it, then we'll attempt to rescue it. And some people are willing to get arrested.

We practice our trench rescue, confined space rescue and angle rescue on a regular basis, a couple of times a month ... for four to eight hours a day ... (to be prepared) for incidents like this.

We have lost contact with the orbiter; rescue units are moving position.

We are grateful for the outpouring of support already, ... But it's important that volunteer response is coordinated by professionals who can direct volunteers with the appropriate skills to the hardest-hit areas where they are needed most. Self-dispatched volunteers and especially sightseers can put themselves and others in harm's way and hamper rescue efforts.

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

We want to acknowledge the good deeds of Good Samaritans -- from professional rescue workers to passersby and everyday people -- who helped save the lives of people very close to us.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say is, 'Thank you, Oprah.'

We understand the rescue workers were able to stay in contact with the workers. They knew at least they were conscious and stable.

We led them in. They had the rescue expertise but we had the knowledge of the cave.

We're trying to save lives. The rescue teams are FEMA people. The medical assistance are FEMA people. Right now, getting people off roofs and keeping people from drowning are a priority.

While parts of India have also suffered from this unexpected natural disaster, we are prepared to extend any assistance with rescue and relief which you may deem appropriate,

We've been discussing this for quite a while, ... We were looking for the appropriate site and appropriate tribute, and we wanted to have it someplace along the waterfront. We wanted it there, not only as a tribute to the victims, but also in honor of all the rescue groups who aided more than 70,000 people who used the ferry as way of a safe exit from New York after the attacks. Those 70,000 people came through Weehawken that day and were aided by volunteers, police, fire, EMS workers. They received medical treatment in our triage centers. Some just needed to get cleaned up and receive water. We distributed water by the thousands that day.

We wait 45 hours to rescue miners and it's too late, but the Legislature under the prodding of our governor acts in eight hours.

We arrived in rescue mode, not recovery mode,

We are working at full strength all over the territory of the market. Rescue workers are working underneath the building to save those still alive, and we are hoping to save the majority of them.

We can't rely on an emergency rescue service like in Switzerland despite satellite telephone link-ups.

We have found the external walls have moved outwards ... if they go any further then we will have to suspend the rescue effort.

We have finalised the rescue operation. We have rescued the Kyoto protocol. It is a major achievement because we live with this for many years to come,

When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm.

The recommendation will not rescue patients and neither does it promote healthy behavior. Instead, they have been promoting programs that encourage riskier activities.

The reason we're doing mine rescue education in places like this is because there is still this threat of mines, because the confrontation lines were so close.

Too many people in public believe that once we rescue children from bad situations and bad families, they're going to be saved.

The parking lots of the hotels around Jackson were jammed with various vehicles - power companies, county ambulances, relief trucks like ours, FEMA vehicles, fire and rescue trucks. FEMA was controlling all of the hotel rooms. It was kind of exciting, being at the center of the relief effort.

There are a number of fine rescue people; everybody has been contributing to the success of this and I don't want to underestimate the contributions that our communities are making. We live in rural Saskatchewan and we ban together.

With supplies, that is where financial contributions come into play. Supplies have to be constantly replenished. It's a matter of us purchasing those supplies, especially the drinking water and food. The little things are important while the search and rescue is going on.

Fire Department and Police Department crews were on scene within four minutes to attempt rescue efforts,

We've been called out with search and rescue this week more than we have in so many years. And there's a reason, it's because it's so dangerous out there now.

We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the cash, we need the blood, we need the support, right now we need the prayers.

The government appeals to members of the public and the private sector who are trained in rescue operation to rush to the scene and assist.

While the Polaris vehicle could be useful in search and rescue missions, we are mindful of the fact that some might misinterpret acceptance of the vehicle as a tacit endorsement of smokeless tobacco products. That was never our intent. However, we concluded that it was best to remove all questions by withdrawing the request.

We've had to rescue animals from fires before and needed to give them oxygen. These (masks) fit tighter around their snouts (than human masks) so they can get 100 percent oxygen.

We've had a tough time on the rescue squad. This was our thank you to these fine officers. I had my worst Christmas nightmare. I am working, along with everyone else in this department, to return these two. I just want to say thank you.

There is no search and rescue campaign that is efficient against a strategy that pushes people into ever more remote and dangerous places. It should surprise nobody.

(We will provide) technical rescue for the fire service, safety officers for the responders themselves (and) flammable liquid specialists. We're transporting our own fuel.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.