Do you like to spend time outdoors and have a desire to help others? Have you ever thought about joining a search and rescue team? Those interested in learning more about search ...

I was high up on a cliff above Moab, Utah, as night was falling, and I couldn’t find my way back down. I became painfully ...

Drones, sonar, and search dogs are transforming how missing-person searches unfold. Here’s how each technology works — and ...

This story, “They Find Lost Men,” appeared in the June 1964 issue of Outdoor Life. Nobody foresaw, at the time it happened, that when Harold Patrick froze to death on a moose hunt in the bush north of ...

Molly Marcello is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. She directed KZMU News in Moab for ...

A 49-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son who found themselves stranded deep in the dense Stanislaus National Forest late last week left a trail of handwritten notes that helped their rescuers locate ...

Crews continue their search-and-rescue efforts in central Texas, four days after devastating flooding that left more than 100 people dead. Dozens are still missing. The number of fatalities continues ...

A southern California rescue team was dispatched to help a hiker who became dehydrated, and while searching for the hiker, encountered two other hikers needing rescue after dehydration. The incident ...

Pennsylvania Urban Search and Rescue Strike Task Force 1 Leader Brian Kokkila discusses the process of obtaining a higher accreditation at the Fire Bureau Headquarters. Dogs that can sniff out people ...