A cargo ship's crew stranded in the North Atlantic is rescued by a search-and-rescue team based in Gander, Newfoundland.
When a commuter train flies off the tracks, the race is on to extract survivors from the wreckage. Putting their own lives in danger, medical experts heroically attempt to save those on board.
The rescue of French cavers trapped underground by a flash flood is recalled.
In October 2005, a devastating earthquake rocks the city of Islamabad in Pakistan, killing more than 70,000 people. In the wreckage of an apartment lays a mother, alive but trapped. She can hear her baby just a few feet away but cannot reach her. Will rescuers be able to reach them in time?
Following efforts to evacuate patients from the Tulane Medical Center in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.