Just one search and rescue mission last year took nearly 1,800 manpower hours and 220 flights. Without volunteers, it would have cost $1.7 million.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the temperature in California's Death Valley National Park skyrocketed to a nearly world record-breaking high, a group of ...

A few days after a teenage boy and his stepfather died in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in Texas, Mike Naccarato received a call from a distressed hiker in the same area. The man told ...

Extreme temperatures cause big problems for rescue helicopters. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Douglas Evans, a rescue pilot in California, about conditions in his state. Extreme heat takes a toll on us ...

SOS: Extreme Rescues follows the remarkable work of emergency responders as they brave extreme conditions to save lives across the Eryri region of north Wales. Building connections with casualties of ...

Phoenix fire officials have conducted more than 108 mountain rescues this year, with Camelback Mountain alone accounting for 44 of those emergency responses as temperatures are expected to reach a ...

Water rescues are underway in the West after major flooding from an atmospheric river as an Arctic-air-fueled snowstorm sweeps from the Midwest all the way East. Navy delivers report to Hegseth on ...