COLLBRAN, Colo. — Rescue teams failed to find any sign Monday of three men missing after a ridge saturated with rain collapsed, sending mud sliding for 3 miles in a remote part of western Colorado. Clancy Nichols, 51, a county road and bridge employee, his son Danny, 24, and Wes Hawkins, 46, have been missing […]
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Fire departments get federal grants
PORTLAND — The Eddington and Denmark fire departments will receive more than $57,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency operations and safety grants. Rep. Mike Michaud says FEMA is providing more than $34,000 to the Eddington Fire Department and more than $23,000 to the Denmark Volunteer Fire Department. Michaud says Eddington’s grant will cover the cost […]
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Industry man helps rescue 3 people from Clearwater Lake
INDUSTRY — A retiree with Parkinson’s disease rescued three canoeists from the cold water of Clearwater Pond on Sunday morning, even after his personal watercraft overturned. James Grant pulled two women and one man from the water, which had been whipped into large whitecaps by high winds. “It was the way I was taught” as […]
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Maine is now prepared to use a hovercraft for search and rescue missions
ROCKLAND (AP) — Maine agencies that conduct search and rescue missions say they are prepared to use a hovercraft on coastal and inland waterways during ice out this spring. A Department of Marine Resources spokesman says members of the state’s Marine Patrol and Warden Service have trained for two years to use the hovercraft in […]
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U.S. icebreaker to rescue 2 ships in Antarctica
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker left Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said. The 122-meter (399-foot) cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia […]
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With polar bear attack behind him, grateful lawyer back at work
LEWISTON — Five months ago to the day on Christmas Eve, Matt Dyer woke to the shadow of a bear falling on his tent. The polar bear pulled him out by the neck and ran toward the water — and almost certain death for Dyer. “I guess I was just lucky, and lucky in many […]
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Injured Maine woman rescued from closed park
BAR HARBOR (AP) — An injured Maine hiker has been rescued from a trail in Acadia National Park, which is closed during the federal government shutdown. A ranger says the 69-year-old Portland woman was hiking along the Flying Mountain when she fell and cut her knee and was unable to walk out. She called 911 […]
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Four people rescued after boat caught fire in Portland Harbor
PORTLAND — A Coast Guard crewman said that four people aboard a boat that caught fire Sunday afternoon at the entrance to Portland Harbor were lucky that a Good Samaritan boater was nearby. No injuries have been reported in the fire, which took place at about 12:30 p.m. Petty Officer Cody Seevers of Coast Guard […]
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F-16 crash in Atlantic forces tricky rescue
The night-vision image in the rescue helicopter showed a downed pilot in a life raft bobbing 35 miles from the Atlantic shoreline, but when Brian Fogle got ready to plunge down to him, the midnight sky and sea melded into inky blackness. And then he stepped out that door and slid down a line into […]
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Animal Tales: Mr. Drew and his animals, too
LEWISTON — Day campers cooed at Widget, the baby bunny. They thrust fistfuls of fresh-pulled grass at Kobe, a tortoise the size of a basketball. They were simultaneously disgusted and entranced by the stick bug as it played, well, a stick. But it was Burnie, a rescued boa constrictor, who caused the 50 fourth-graders at […]