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unusual facts about Rescue: Special Ops


Laura Brent

She made her first screen appearance in the 2009 short film Message from the CEO and went onto making guest appearances on the Australian television series Chandon Pictures, Legend of the Seeker and Rescue: Special Ops.


139th Airlift Squadron

During October 1999 the 109th AW aided in the rescue of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a doctor with breast cancer symptoms and based at isolated Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.

30 Days in Sydney

One tells of his attempts to rescue his home from a bushfire, and another of a near death experience during the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Ace Ventura

His eccentricities makes him a laughing stock to the Miami-Dade Police Department in the early part of the first movie, but eventually earned their respect after his rescue of Dan Marino and the dolphin, Snowflake.

American Maid

She has also been revealed to be an operative (at least part-time) for the US government and had the former alias of Jeanine Smith during a mission with the Tick and Arthur to rescue Yank, a monkey made temporarily smart by cosmic rays, and subsequently kidnapped by the evil ruler Pineapple Pokopo.

Amritanshu Gupta

In the aftermath of the devastating Uttarakhand floods, Gupta helped rescue a family which was stranded there, ensuring that the Uttarakhand Chief Minister himself looked into the matter.

Andrew George Blair

In December 1901, Blair's daughter Bessie drowned while skating on the ill-frozen Ottawa River at a party put on by the Governor-General; Henry Harper dove in to try to rescue her, but drowned as well.

ATS-3

The satellite has served as a communications link for rescue operations, including the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal along with Premlata Agarwal and a group of ace climbers, which includes Mt. Everest summiteers have quietly arrived in Uttarkashi and carried out relief and rescue operations in the remotest high altitude villages of the Himalayas that have been ravaged in the 2013 North India floods, where even the Indian Army jawans couldn't reach.

Betty in Blunderland

When the Jabberwocky steals Betty away, everyone comes to her rescue.

Buildering

In 2010, Goodwin, now a stage four cancer survivor, scaled San Francisco, California's sixty-storey Millennium Tower to call attention to the fire department's inability to conduct rescue operations in the upper floors of skyscrapers.

Claude Sammut

He was the leader of the UNSW teams that won RoboCup four-legged robot competitions in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and the CAS team that won the award for best autonomous robot at RoboCup Rescue 2009.

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service

The two Line Rescue Units (LRUs) are based on a Mercedes-Benz 1124 4x4 chassis with a Hiab crane on the rear of the vehicle and a Mercedes Atego chassis.

Cowichan Bay Fire Rescue

The Cowichan Bay Fire Rescue Department exists to provide fire, medical and other life safety services to those who reside, work, or travel through the Cowichan Bay Improvement District, which borders the City of Duncan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Cronut

At a live auction in October 2013 benefited City Harvest (a New York City food rescue organization) Dominique Ansel, with auctioneer Nicholas Lowry and Questlove, auctioned a dozen freshly baked Cronuts for $14,000 in less than twenty minutes.

Daniel in the lions' den

David Syme Russell notes a number of parallels between the two chapters, including the trials suffered, the jealousy of conspirators, rescue by an angel, accusers meeting the same fate they had intended for the protagonists, and the fact that the king praises God and issues a royal decree protecting Jewish worship.

Denham, Western Australia

Emergency services are operated entirely by volunteers (Fire Brigade, Ambulance, State Emergency Service (SES) and Marine Rescue).

Dirk Pitt, Jr.

In Treasure of Khan, Dirk helps rescue his sister after she is kidnapped on a research mission.

Dunkelwerk

Neikka RPM – Here's Your Revolution (ep CD), Here's Your Revolution (Deep Space Rescue Remix by Dunkelwerk)

Economy of Seychelles

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency - one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

Edén Pastora

After negotiating a USD $500,000 deal with Somoza and Cardinal Miguel Obando, Pastora, Ortega and other released prisoners left for Cuba, where he claimed to have been a "prisoner" lavished with women and luxury, but not allowed to leave the country until Martín Torrijos, the son of then Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and Pastora's personal friend, voiced his concern and went to Cuba to rescue him personally.

G. William Miller

In November 1978, only 11 months into his term, the dollar had fallen nearly 34% against the German mark and almost 42% against the Japanese yen, prompting the Carter administration to launch a "dollar rescue package" including emergency sales from the U.S. gold stock, borrowing from the International Monetary Fund, and auctions of Treasury securities denominated in foreign currencies.

Giuseppe Zamberletti

Due to his role as national coordinator of rescue interventions, Zamberletti was in charge in Italian emergencies such as the 1976 Friuli and 1980 Irpinia earthquakes.

Greg Cipes

The song "Rescue" on the band's 2007 debut release Conscious Revolution features teenage pop star Jesse McCartney.

Hank the Cat

However, they were instead given to Animal Allies, a rescue group, and Hank was adopted by a family in Springfield.

Here Comes Garfield

Garfield decides to go home, but when he attempt to warn Jon about Odie, Jon thinks that Garfield is just suffering fleas and Garfield gives up telling Jon, but realizes how boring life is without Odie around, so that night, Garfield decides to rescue Odie.

Homer Hickam

In 1984, Hickam was presented with Alabama's Distinguished Service Award for heroism shown during a rescue effort of the crew and passengers of a sunken paddleboat in the Tennessee River.

Humane society

In the United Kingdom, it may also be a society that provides a waterways rescue, prevention, and recovery service, or that gives awards for the saving of human life (see: Royal Humane Society).

Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps

The joint organisation maintains the island's only trained SARDA (Search and Rescue Dog Association) dog and handler.

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob's Rescue is a 1994 children's book by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin based on a true story that takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the holocaust.

Jacques de la Palice

La Palice was sent again to the Pyrenees, and then to the successful attempt to rescue Marseille from Duke of Bourbon's siege.

Jessica Fletcher

Perhaps her most notable experience was encountering a Mr. Potts who preferred to be called Mr. Bond—he did at least have an Aston Martin DB6, in which Jessica herself ended up racing to the rescue.

John Coburn House

In 1851 he was arrested, tried, and acquitted for the court-house rescue of Shadrach Minkins, a freedom seeker who was caught in Boston by federal slave catchers empowered by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Kameradschaft

Pabst took an actual historical event, a mining accident in 1906 in Courrières, France, where rescue efforts were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers.

Loomis Dean

In 1956, while sailing to Paris to take a job in the magazine's bureau there, Dean photographed the sinking and the rescue of passengers from the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria.

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Marissa Faireborn

Marissa debuted in the 5-part mini-series "Five Faces of Darkness", travelling to Jupiter's moon, Io, in order to rescue the stranded Autobots Blurr and Wheelie.

Mount Drygalski

The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American sealing bark Trinity.

Mount Feathertop

Sixty searchers were deployed in the field by Monday evening, 31 August 2009, including Victorian Police Search and Rescue, Bush Search and Rescue and the State Emergency Service.

Moyers Corners Fire Department

Presently at Station 3 there are a 1999 Pierce Quantum (Engine Company 31), 1997 Pierce Quantum (Engine Company 32), 2001 Saulsbury Heavy Rescue (Rescue Company 3), 1980 International (HazMat 3), and a 2004 Ford Expedition (Squad Company 3).

Mrs. Chippy

The painting Mrs Chippy, by Wolf Howard, shows the cat "about to be shot", while in the background the crew launch a small open boat on a rescue mission and Endurance is stuck in the ice.

Niagara Scow

Since a rescue boat was out of the question, the Niagara Falls (Ontario) Fire Department tried using a grappling gun to shoot a life line out towards the barge, from atop the roof of the Toronto Power House while awaiting the arrival of the US Coast Guard from Youngstown, New York to bring a heavier grappling gun.

Old Havana

Alejo Carpentier called it "de las columnas"(of the columns), but it could also be named for the gateways, the revoco, the deterioration and the rescue, the intimacy, the shade, the cool, the courtyards...

Shaq Fu

After speaking with a kung fu master, he stumbles into another dimension, where he must rescue a young boy named Nezu from the evil mummy Sett-Ra.

Skin of Evil

In this episode, the Enterprise races to rescue Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) from a crashed shuttle, which is being held captive by an alien life form called Armus (Mart McChesney, voiced by Ron Gans).

Squad 51

Squad 51 is a 1972 Dodge D-300 truck, one of 3 different rescue squad vehicles ("squads") that were used in the filming of the television series Emergency!

Tell It to the Frogs

In the episode, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finally reunites with his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), son Carl (Chandler Riggs) and best friend Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal), although this reunion is short lived when he decides to return to Atlanta to rescue Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker).

The Baytown Outlaws

The cast also includes: Thomas Sangster as Rob, a young disabled man and the target of the Oodie's rescue job; Zoë Bell as Rose, Serinda Swan as Jez, Meagan Good as Belle, Brea Grant as Pammy, and Agnes Bruckner as Mona, a group of female biker assassins; Michael Rapaport as Lucky, a bar owner; James DuMont as Special Agent Simmons; and Natalie Martinez as Ariana, an illegal immigrant and nurse.

Toolstation

The company currently sponsors the Western Football League (which is also known as the Toolstation League), the Northern Counties East Football League and the RNLI Flood Rescue Team.

Ugo Tognazzi

He rescues Barbarella (Jane Fonda) from the biting dolls she encounters, and after her rescue, he requests payment by asking her to make love with him (the "old-fashioned" way, not the psycho-cardiopathic way of their future).

Vibhavadi Rangsit Road

It is named in honor of HRH Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (1920-1977), a well-known Thai novelist who dedicated the final decade of her life to developing rural Southern Thailand, and was killed in an attack by insurgents while trying to rescue injured Border Patrol police.


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