RESCUE

Fifty years ago, two Loop-bound commuter Illinois Central trains crashed, killing 45 and injuring more than 300.

Four thousand beagles were rescued from a Virginia breeding facility and have been sent to rescue shelters across the county.

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Roanoke City and Roanoke County crews received the call around 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Between the two departments and the city of Salem, 17 personnel were sent to the area with boats and equipment.

An endangered leopard captured in Iraq's mountainous north had its hind leg amputated following a trap-inflicted wound. The Persian leopard, taken in a day earlier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region near the border with Turkey, had injured two people, said Colonel Jamal Saado, head of the environmental protection police in Dohuk province.

A group of Good Samaritans quick and kind actions led to a Lynchburg man’s rescue over the weekend when he got hurt on a hiking trail.

​Rescue crews are working non-stop. They've moved millions of pounds of concrete trying to find survivors.

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ROANOKE, Va. – First responders raced to the rescue after three hikers were injured and stranded while hiking the Appalachian Trail over the weekend. Rockbridge County Fire & Rescue Chief Nathan Ramsey said it would have been too difficult to carry them out on foot. Saturday’s rescue took 10 hours. That rescue took two hours and 17 first responders, lugging thermal blankets, ropes, and more. “You figure you have a 180-pound patient and you’re trying to walk them out and you’ve got unstable conditions,” said Zaronsky.

LYNCHBURG, Va. A local woman and her daughters took the time to thank a Lynchburg Police officer who saved her life. Over the summer, that woman started choking when Officer Austin Rowland performed the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life. Earlier this summer, Officer Mike Johnson and Officer Austin Rowland were handling a late night callfor service when a resident started choking and turning blue. This morning they met up at Old ForestWalmart and the resident and her children surprised Officer Rowland with a balloon, cards, and hugs. Were grateful forthe quick action of Officer Rowland and for relationships like this that make our city so special.

REEDLEY, Calif. – As three children were swept away in a California river Wednesday, a brave bystander jumped in to help. The selfless hero was later identified as 29-year-old Manjeet Singh, according to a report by KFSN. After training ended he wanted to cool off, so he went down to Kings River with his brother-in-law to ride jet skis. Soon, he noticed a commotion in the water.Three children--one boy and two girls--got swept away by a current. It took rescue crews 40 minutes to find Singh and pull him out of the water.

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. Swift water rescue crews are working to save missing floaters on the Pigg River near Rocky Mount on Saturday night. The Franklin County Swift Water Rescue Team was activated to find four people who were reported missing between Rakes Road Bridge and the boat take out at Lynch Park. Authorities said the four people are of varying ages but didnt release any other information about them. This is a breaking news story. Stay with 10 News for updates.

DANVILLE, Va. – Crews with the Danville Fire Department and other agencies responded to two different lifesaving calls on the Dan River on Saturday. First, they got a report just after 7:30 a.m. of a person in danger of falling into the river from the Main Street Bridge. The second call was for someone in the river after their kayak overturned just after 2 p.m.Crews arrived to find a man on some debris underneath the Norfolk Southern train trestle. Crews attempted a high angle rescue from the top of the train trestle. They were able to lower a rescuer to the victim, place a harness on the victim and pull him to safety, according to the Fire Department.

ROANOKE, Va. A Roanoke rescue crew saved a construction worker on Tuesday morning. At 9:35am, Roanoke Fire-EMS was dispatched to the 4200 Block of Lake Dr SW for a medical call. When units arrived, they found that a construction worker, who was working on the home had fallen into a void area under the house after experiencing a medical episode, according to Roanoke Fire-EMS. There was no exit where the man fell and he wasnt easily accessible from the floor that he fell through. To get him out, the departments Technical Rescue Team had to cut through an exterior wall.

Chaos on the Border, Robots to the Rescue, To Kill a Mockingbird The chaos behind Donald Trump's policy of family separation at the border; then, robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; and, "To Kill a Mockingbird" comes to Broadway

Rescue crews searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found a previously unknown shipwreck off the coast of Australia. CBSN's Gigi Stone Woods has the surprising deep-sea find.

Dramatic rescue at sea caught on camera A U.K. Coastguard helicopter pulled 3 Irish fishermen from the North Atlantic as their boat sunk.

Dramatic rescue: Seven saved from capsized boat off Florida coast Four adults and three small kids are safe after being rescued off Florida's Gulf Coast. Vicente Arenas reports on the quick action that stopped a tragedy.

Rescuers in Washington make miraculous save Rescue teams in Washington state decided the only way to save a hiker who fell down an embankment was to hoist him 420 feet up the "High Steel Bridge"

Charlie Rose reports on a new club for the super rich that has an interesting twist; then, the little known story of a daring rescue days before the fall of Saigon; and, reinventing opera at the Met.