In the hour and a quarter afterwards, this camp site was the centre of a rescue operation.
In the course of a rescue operation, two hostages, including one of the Americans, were shot dead.
"At King's Cross station there is a rescue operation in the tunnel down on the line, " he said.
Since most of LTCM's money came from big Wall Street banks, the New York Federal Reserve Bank organized a rescue operation.
Along with police and fire crews, the rangers battled to get the surviving cows to safety in a rescue operation that took four hours.
Last September, hundreds of emergency personnel were involved in a rescue operation during a simulated chemical attack at Bank Tube station in the City of London.
Jean Ping, the Gabonese president of the General Assembly who is responsible for supervising the preparation of the outcome document, rushed to mount a rescue operation.
The attack prompted a frantic rescue operation when emergency workers heard the screams of a woman trapped under the rubble.
At a site 50 miles from Chengdu, the Sichuan capital, a dramatic rescue operation took place when signs of life emerged from a flattened factory.
So you don't launch a military rescue operation, you don't scramble jets, and you have a rationalization they're too far away, they'll never make it in time.
It was the middle of a military rescue operation trying to save lives.
The Fishguard-bound ferry turned around on Sunday when the emergency was reported and coastguards from Dublin and Swansea launched a major rescue operation.
And a July rescue operation freed former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who had been held captive since 2002, along with three American military contractors and 11 Colombian police and military members.
Today it seems more like a mutual rescue operation.
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"Whilst this is a successful rescue operation, our thoughts are with the remaining 139 hostages still held by pirates, 28 of whom have been there for just under two years, " the International Maritime Bureau said in a statement.
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Dutch coastguards have called off a search and rescue operation after the sinking of the Baltic Ace cargo ship in the North Sea.
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Mr Douglas said this could have caused a "massive rescue operation" over fears the four passengers of the car could have been swept away.
Here is a selection of log entries that illustrate just how the Coast Guard grappled with a deadly maritime explosion that turned from a search-and-rescue operation to environmental catastrophe in a space of days.
Hours later at the height of the rescue operation a second, more violent blast resulted in the deaths of another 53 men.
"They were off-piste when it happened, and it looks as though they probably sparked the avalanche off, " said a spokesman for the rescue operation.
If country music has been saved from commercial Nashville's oily quiffs and bubblegum lyrics, it is thanks to a single-handed rescue operation by this great man.
China Central Television and The Beijing News say police have arrested 360 suspects in a nationwide operation to rescue 70 deaf-mute people abducted by criminal gangs to work as burglars and pickpockets.
Freeport, which is handling the rescue operation, said in a statement on Tuesday that "the rescue process is difficult and will take some time to complete".
In the hours after the explosion, the Coast Guard was focused on a search-and-rescue operation.
The notes sparked a search operation involving mountain rescue teams and a police helicopter.
Opening partner Shaun Marsh followed, but Hussey and Ponting began the rescue operation with a patient third-wicket stand.
The Solent Coastguard helicopter and the Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat were both involved in the rescue operation after a 999 call was received at 16:49 BST on Friday.
And of course there was "Argo, " the year's best picture winner, which followed a secret CIA operation to rescue six American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980.
Government officials said a land and air operation to rescue the workers was under way.
Pte Stone was hit during an operation to rescue a policeman who had been kidnapped by insurgents.
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