Graham Payne, chairman and founder of rescue charity Rapid, told the BBC trapped people could go quiet for hours at a time if they passed out or fell asleep but teams never gave up on them.
Three days later and on the basis of that report, a senior officer in Operation Rapid told his superior that John Downey was not wanted by the PSNI and that as he was from and lived in Donegal, he was not on the run.
The physicians and hospital leaders from Cedar Rapids told us how they have adopted electronic systems to improve communication among physicians and quality of care.
"There was sloppiness," Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka, whose ministry oversees elections and was accused by several witnesses of applying pressure on officials to provide a rapid count, told reporters after the verdict.
"A lot of times, the data doesn't reflect the population of youth that are dealing with this crisis," Staci Jonson, director of Arise Youth Center in Rapid City, told The Huffington Post.
When Henry Hudson sailed up the river in 1609, searching for the Northwest Passage, one look at the rapids here told him that this waterway would not be it.
Steve started the motor, zoomed toward the newly formed first set of rapids, and told us to grip the rope that rings the top of the raft and to lean forward.
The drive went smoothly (except for the shaking from the unbalanced new tires above 80km/h!) and we crossed the Betsiboka River at midday, admiring the brown silt-laden rapids, which told us we were still at the end of the rainy season.
She closes her eyes, starts to clap her hands and, in rapid Japanese, tells them to follow her, to hum, to sway, and to pretend, just for a little while, that they are not Japanese, but an ordinary group of gospel singers trying to feel God's spirit.
This sounded like a rapid timeframe, I told him.
Rapid fire, he told me the issues he cared about: "No. 1, gas prices.
