Quick-thinking firefighters had a soup-er idea to rescue ducklings trapped in an overflow pipe when they borrowed a kitchen ladle to scoop them out. The youngsters had been swimming with…
A wallaby on the loose that has troubled authorities in Austria for more than a week has again escaped fire department crews when they tried to catch it. The marsupial…
A bad-tempered squirrel drove rescuers nuts when it tried to bite them as they freed it from a manhole cover on a city street. The red squirrel - described as…
This is the chilling moment an elk that fell through the icy surface of a frozen pond gets rescued by firefighters. The 'cool' rescue operation reportedly took place in the…
A bloke claims to have found the world's deadliest spider, which can jump 16 inches and whose venom can kill, inside his home in Brazil. The unnamed resident of the…
This is the heart-touching moment when two firefighters bring a tiny kitten back from the brink of death using CPR and the kiss of life. The stray has been stuck…
A baby boy and his sister died in a horror house fire as their single mother went to work overnight so she could afford to feed them. The pair died…
These images show a deer that was found stuck down a manhole with only its massive antlers stopping it from falling further into the hole. The incident took place in…
These images show a seagull left dangling from a utility pole in Florida after it became tangled in string as it is rescued by firefighters. Rescuers can be seen scaling…
A 68-year-old woman was mauled to death by her two pet Rottweilers as she fed them in her garden on Christmas Day. The grim attack unfolded at the home in…