rescue

There are certain jobs you look at and say, "Nope. Never. Couldn't possibly do it." Washing windows on a Chicago Skyscraper is, for me, one of those jobs.

We're all familiar with the image of a firefighter getting a stuck cat out of a tall tree, but Rockford firefighters had a different scenario to deal with Monday.

Winnebago County Animal Services (WCAS) says they have 40 dogs that need to be adopted before they can begin work on new kennels.

Nearly 60 animals left homeless by the recent Oklahoma storms arrived in Chicago Friday for examination, treatment if needed, and hopefully adoption.

After jumping into the frigid waist-deep waters on Sunday to save his dog, a Chicago man found himself desperately needing to be rescued.

An escaped St. Bernard was found alive, although decidedly worse for wear, after 17 days lost outside in freezing-cold Minnesota weather.

Naperville fire and police rescued an 11-year-old boy who had fallen through the ice of a retention pond Sunday.

It took nearly three hours to rescue six people stuck in an elevator in Chicago’s fourth-tallest building early Friday. Luckily, no one was injured.

“It is not every day someone reports an alligator in Lake Michigan and the report is true,” the city of Waukegan said in a Facebook post.

Despite near-constant warnings and advisories about not leaving dogs and cats to suffer in extreme heat or cold, it still happens with alarming frequency.