Rescue

Volunteers from Greece's animal welfare organization ''ARCTUROS'' launched an operation recently to save a trapped female wolf from a house's iron fence in a village near Thessaloniki. The unfortunate, petrified animal had most likely been chased by dogs and became...

Irene Kotsatourchi, the lone inhabitant of the Greek islet of Kinaros who has been considered missing since the beginning of the week was found safe and sound on Thursday. An operation was launched on Thursday by Greek rescue teams, attempting...

The Greek Coast Guard rescued four people on board a sailboat which had been caught in rough seas and winds of 8 to 9 Beaufort off the island of Kea, south of Athens on Monday. The authorities were on high...

Greece's Coast Guard have saved all the crewmembers of a Liberia-flagged vessel that was floating completely adrift between the islands of Lesvos and Skyros in the Aegean Sea. The ship was spotted off the coast of Sagri on the island...

The strong earthquake that hit Albania in the early hours of Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring hundreds has led Greece to send immediate aid to the neighboring nation. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a telephone call...

Dramatic footage from last Saturday's rescue of a 47-year-old Greek captain in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean has been released by the Portuguese Air Force. The man was airlifted from the vessel Minerva Gloria, as it sailed 420 kilometers...

A rescue operation took place on Monday morning to save 21 refugees on-board a small vessel, 40 nautical miles off Cape Greco, in the southeastern coast of Cyprus. According to an announcement by the Cypriot Ministry of Defense, the Joint...

The 27-year-old man who was missing after his car was carried away by fast-flowing waters on Greece's Evia after the island was severely hit by the Mediterranean cyclone Zorba, was found and rescued on Monday morning. A new video of the...

The fire fighters in the port of Piraeus are still struggling to completely extinguish a fire that started in the early hours of Wednesday local time, forcing the vessel El Venizelos to be evacuated. Despite the fact that some of...

On Monday, two French climbers were rescued from a ravine where they were trapped, at some 1,950 meters on Mount Taygetus. Mount Taygetus is also known as Prophet Elias. The name of this mountain appears in the Odyssey and the...