The Vernon Fire Department said firefighters were sent to rescue a 40-year-old man who had gotten stuck over the weekend inside a tube slide on the playground at an elementary school in Vermont

Crews rescued a man trapped in a tube slide at an elementary school, freeing him after 30 minutes and providing oxygen before he refused medical treatment.

Firefighters endured a weird call out that saw them slice open a children’s tube slide with a 40-year-old man stuck inside it. Connecticut responders were called out to an elementary school in Vernon at around 4:30 p.

Two men were rescued by firefighters from the second floor of a burning home in Ipswich on Monday. Crews arrived at Linebrook Road around 12 p.m. and saw flames coming from the front and back of the house.

Two people were rescued from a burning home in Hillsboro in the early hours of Saturday, with one of them rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment.

Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers and European allies are rushing firefighters and equipment to bolster emergency teams struggling to battle blazes that remain out of control around the country. The reinforcements bring the number of Spanish military personnel aiding local firefighters to about 4,

Firefighters in Porto and Castrillo de Cabrera, Spain, used water-carrying helicopters to battle intense flames on Sunday (August 17), as multiple wildfires raged across the country.

German firefighters have arrived in northern Spain to help combat the country's most severe wildfires in decades. A total of 67 emergency personnel, along with 23 vehicles, have reached San Sebastián in the Basque Country,