Ms. Toner and a group of New Jersey breeders, veterinarians and rescue operators are working to create legislation that would mandate a uniform care standard for horses, following the lead of Georgia and Maryland in making the state Department of Agriculture, not local S.P.C.A.'s or animal control, responsible for the relocation of abused horses.
The Australian rescue operators said the scientists and tourists were now all aboard the ship Aurora Australis.
Like recessionary scouts, they spot trouble, like a rapacious foreclosure-rescue operator, a predatory credit card company or a financial firm draining a pension fund.
A 2004 agreement requiring tourism operators to be insured to cover possible rescue operations or medical evacuations has been ratified by only 11 of the 28.
During the California wildfires, rescue operations were halted thanks to unauthorized usage of drones by civilian operators who wanted to capture footage of the disaster.
Boat operators charge Africans four hundred to seven hundred dollars to cross the Mediterranean from Libya, a friend who is involved in Mediterranean rescue operations of migrants told me this past summer.
Atop the rescue drill, operators of the T-130, which beat out two other rigs working simultaneously to reach the miners, celebrated by pumping their fists in the air and spraying each other with Champagne.
At the end of a rail journey through Vietnam in her acclaimed documentary "Regret to Inform," Barbara Sonneborn arrives at the place where her husband, Jeff Gurvitz, was killed in 1968 trying to rescue his radio operator.
In a radio interview, Lord Adonis, the rail minister, was unequivocal: "I'm simply not prepared to bail out companies that are unable to fulfil their commitments," he said, arguing that a rescue could encourage other operators to seek similar treatment.Instead, a public company will take over the line until a new operator can be found.
In China, hot line operators dispatch rescue kits via motorcycle to desperate callers.
The 13 April table-top planning exercise, involving US and Canadian coast guard and government officials, will walk Crystal operators and rescue officials through the nightmarish scenario of rescuing hundreds of passengers up to 1,000 miles from the nearest coast guard base, officials said.
