Search turns up no sign of woman Entered Niagara River five metres from brink of falls A ground and aerial search by members of several agencies has failed to turn up any sign of a woman presumed to have gone over the Horseshoe falls. At just after 4 p.m. Sunday, a woman had been seen jumping into the Niagara River about five metres from the brink of the falls. Several emergency responders, including Niagara Parks Police, the Niagara Regional Police, The Niagara Falls Fire Department and the United States Coast Guard, which provided both air and marine support.  Additionally, Niagara...

Code Red Safety has worked with Work One a local government agencyin Indiana to hire veterans that are having difficulty finding employment and careers.  Scott Moser is an example of the veterans that Code Red Safety hires.  Scott started with Code Red in the summer of 2011 and was recently promoted to 2nd on Code Red Safety’s confined space rescue teams.  According to Al Pasco, Code Red’s rescue manager, Scott has what it takes to have good career in confined space rescue.  Scott is disaplined, patient, hard working and intelligent, “he has worked hard to get...

The worried family of a teenager who had been missing for several hours at Signal Hill in St. John’s finally got the news they most dreaded late Sunday afternoon. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a young man in his late teens appeared to have slipped from an embankment on Signal Hill around 11:45 a.m. For several hours, police, the high-angle rescue team of the St. John’s Regional Fire Department, a fast-water rescue craft and a Universal helicopter searched the area for the missing man. The RNC reported late in the afternoon that the young man did not survive the...

Three men were rescued from at least eight stories high, after a scaffolding accident in Rockville, fire officials said. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue is on the scene of 6001 Montrose Road, where three men were hanging from harnesses while emergency crews attempted the “high angle rescue,” officials said. The accident happened at around 9:40 a.m., when the scaffolding broke away from the workers. The motor that powered the scaffold malfunctioned and the men were stuck between the eighth and ninth floors, officials said. Emergency crews are using aerial ladders to get to the...

An injured caver has been rescued from a disused mine in South Shropshire after a six-and-a-half hour operation. The 24-year-old was deep underground at Snailbeach near Minsterley when she had an epileptic seizure. More than 50 people from the Midlands Cave Rescue Organisation were involved in the rescue along with West Midlands Ambulance Service staff. The woman, who also injured her back, was winched 300ft to the surface and taken to hospital on Wednesday evening. A spokesman for the West Midlands Ambulance Service said the alarm had been raised by the woman’s companions just before...

Two UCC students and a Glide Middle School girl were injured in a crash Wednesday morning in Glide. Reports came in at around 7:45 a.m., that a car with three people inside left Glide Loop Road and crashed over an embankment down to the river. Three people were injured and transported to Mercy Medical Center, with what officers say appear to be serious, but non-life threatening injuries. Police say the driver was Karina Dee McKenzie, 19, of Idleyld Park. Officers say she was driving a 13-year-old middle school student to class, and then was headed to UCC with her other passenger, Jessica Ann...