https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Two people were injured in an accident in the Teutschenthal mine in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Friday morning. https://www.thelocal.de/20191108/eastern-german-workers-rescued-after-mine-explosion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:24:58 +0100 eastern-german-workers-rescued-after-mine-explosion A squirrel in the western German city of Dortmund sparked a major rescue operation after it got stuck in a manhole cover. https://www.thelocal.de/20190621/squirrel-stuck-in-manhole-cover-rescued-by-german-firefighters Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:50:51 +0200 squirrel-stuck-in-manhole-cover-rescued-by-german-firefighters Many people head to the water to cool down during Germany’s hot spells. However, swimming in lakes and pools can be dangerous, as a series of deaths across the country show. https://www.thelocal.de/20190603/four-die-in-swimming-accidents-across-germany Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:14:20 +0200 four-die-in-swimming-accidents-across-germany Austrian troops airlifted a group of German students stranded at a snowbound ski resort on Friday, as emergency services scrambled to clear record snowfall across large parts of the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20190112/austria-army-rescues-snowbound-german-students Sat, 12 Jan 2019 09:48:26 +0100 austria-army-rescues-snowbound-german-students A fire in an ICE train on the Frankfurt-Cologne high-speed railway line has triggered a major rescue operation and led to the closure of one of the most important arteries in German rail traffic. https://www.thelocal.de/20181012/train-fire-on-major-german-rail-route-triggers-major-rescue-operation Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:58:21 +0200 train-fire-on-major-german-rail-route-triggers-major-rescue-operation The bodies of two men who went missing while taking a dip in the Elbe river have been found. Their disappearance at the weekend sparked a large scale search. https://www.thelocal.de/20180716/search-abandoned-for-two-feared-drowned-in-elbe-river Mon, 16 Jul 2018 12:15:56 +0200 search-abandoned-for-two-feared-drowned-in-elbe-river In Hamburg a man got into a 'hole' lot of trouble on Tuesday after he became stuck upside down while attempting to retrieve his keys from a storm drain. https://www.thelocal.de/20171017/man-stuck-upside-down-in-drain-requires-23-emergency-service-personnel-to-get-him-out Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:10:17 +0200 man-stuck-upside-down-in-drain-requires-23-emergency-service-personnel-to-get-him-out The Dortmund highway patrol police performed a rather unusual rescue over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20170522/ducklings-saved-from-road-by-police-officers-hat Mon, 22 May 2017 19:05:56 +0200 ducklings-saved-from-road-by-police-officers-hat Six men were rescued by a German cruise liner in the South Pacific on Saturday after leaping into the sea from their sinking Tongan fishing boat, New Zealand rescue authorities said. https://www.thelocal.de/20170204/german-liner-rescues-six-from-sinking-tongan-boat Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:58:52 +0100 german-liner-rescues-six-from-sinking-tongan-boat After an almighty effort, a red squirrel has been freed from a manhole cover after its hefty hips got it into a spot of bother. https://www.thelocal.de/20161207/kardashian-shaped-squirrel-freed-from-munich-manhole-cover Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:30:11 +0100 kardashian-shaped-squirrel-freed-from-munich-manhole-cover An elderly woman had a fall on Wednesday and couldn't get up. But a wrong number ended up saving her life. https://www.thelocal.de/20160901/lucky-wrong-number-saves-96-year-olds-life Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:19:08 +0200 lucky-wrong-number-saves-96-year-olds-life The north German state of Schleswig-Holstein is introducing new heavy-duty ambulances designed to transport more generously-proportioned patients in emergencies. https://www.thelocal.de/20160601/new-bigger-ambulances-for-obese-overweight-patients-in-north-germany Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:24:09 +0200 new-bigger-ambulances-for-obese-overweight-patients-in-north-germany A young boy had a miraculous escape in western Germany on Wednesday when a bin man happened to see him hanging from the window ledge and managed to catch him just in time. https://www.thelocal.de/20160526/garbageman-catches-child-after-he-falls-out-2rd-floor-window Thu, 26 May 2016 11:33:20 +0200 garbageman-catches-child-after-he-falls-out-2rd-floor-window NPD politician Stefan Jagsch would not quite own up to reports that refugees had rescued him in a car crash last week. https://www.thelocal.de/20160324/neo-nazi-refuses-to-acknowledge-refugees-helped-him-in-crash Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:29:49 +0100 neo-nazi-refuses-to-acknowledge-refugees-helped-him-in-crash The German navy rescued a fisherman who had been stranded in the Baltic Sea for 27 hours, after spotting him by chance while on exercise on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151013/fisherman-rescued-after-27-hours-at-sea Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:47:22 +0200 fisherman-rescued-after-27-hours-at-sea Fire fighters in Lower Saxony had a double rescue mission on their hands this week, when a pet parrot got stuck in a tree – and then so did his owner. https://www.thelocal.de/20150824/rescue-mission-after-parrot-owner-follows-pet-into-tree Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:33:02 +0200 rescue-mission-after-parrot-owner-follows-pet-into-tree More than 500 firefighters from all over the world have descended on Hanover this week to compete for the title of "Toughest Firefighter Alive". https://www.thelocal.de/20150611/hannover-welcomes-toughest-fireman-contest Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:42:20 +0200 hannover-welcomes-toughest-fireman-contest Two young German women who were backpacking through Nepal are still missing in the wake of the huge earthquake that struck the country on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150430/two-german-women-missing-in-nepal Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:06:41 +0200 two-german-women-missing-in-nepal Over 50 German rescue specialists are heading to one of the worst affected parts of Nepal to perform a search and rescue mission for people trapped by Saturday's earthquake. https://www.thelocal.de/20150429/germany-aid-team-arrives-in-nepal Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:40:07 +0200 germany-aid-team-arrives-in-nepal The Foreign Ministry confirmed to The Local on Tuesday that one German citizen was killed in the earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150428/at-least-one-german-confirmed-dead-in-nepal Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:41:12 +0200 at-least-one-german-confirmed-dead-in-nepal