TEXAS · 2024
Connie, found inside a container.
Barking and scratching led inspectors to a dog trapped in a shipping container. Days after the rescue, Connie met her rescuers again.
U.S. Coast Guard / Perry ShirzadA PLACE TO SHOW YOU CARE
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who cannot ask.
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REAL RESCUE STORIES
Where kindness became action.
FLORIDA · 2024
A man and his dog, lifted to safety.
A Clearwater helicopter crew reached a disabled sailboat taking on water off Sanibel Island. The man and his dog were rescued together and reported to be in good health.
U.S. Coast Guard / Air Station ClearwaterLOUISIANA · 2020
Two dogs brought out of the flood.
After Hurricane Laura, a Coast Guard team rescued two dogs in Delcambre. Rescue Alliance helped reunite them with their owners.
U.S. Coast Guard / Flood Punt Team HuntingtonNORTH CAROLINA · 2018
While a family awaited a birth, help reached Deuces.
Hurricane Florence flooded Pollocksville while Bernard Jones was at the hospital awaiting his child’s birth. His dogs had been stranded for days; a Coast Guard boat crew rescued Deuces.
U.S. Coast Guard / Zachary HuppNORTH CAROLINA · 2018
The family left the flood together.
In Old Dock, Coast Guard and North Carolina National Guard members brought a couple and their dog out of high water caused by Hurricane Florence.
U.S. Coast Guard / Stephen KellyNORTH CAROLINA · 2018
Sixteen cats, carried away from rising water.
A shallow-water response crew and National Guard members evacuated 16 cats from floodwater in Old Dock during Hurricane Florence.
U.S. Coast Guard / Stephen KellyKANSAS · 2007
From contaminated floodwater to foster care.
In Coffeyville, a FEMA employee helped an abandoned dog exposed to oil-contaminated floodwater. The dog was cleaned, a veterinarian was consulted, and a foster home was found.
Leif Skoogfors / FEMAFLORIDA · 2020
Nine people. One dog. A way to safety.
Near Navarre Beach, a Coast Guard shallow-water team rescued nine people and one dog affected by Hurricane Sally on September 16, 2020.
U.S. Coast Guard / Sector Ohio Valley
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