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Scott Ruskan, United States Coast Guard swimmer helped coordinate the rescue of many people at the Camp Mystic during the ...

Multiple urban search and rescue teams from across the country that responded to the deadly floods in central Texas told CNN ...

A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Air Station Detroit hoisted a 52-year-old man from Lake Huron near Lexington after a small ...

The Coast Guard team aboard Rescue 6553 saved nearly 200 people trapped by the deadly floods in Texas this past week.

‘Days of Our Lives' Star Susan-Seaforth Hayes Reacts To Daytime Emmy Snub For Episode Involving Late Husband: "Perhaps Judges ...

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer is being called an American hero by many after he rescued over 200 people from the deadly floods that took place in Texas the weekend of July 4th. “This was the first ...

The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office recovered a body from the ocean Sunday, after a swimmer in distress was reported just ...

It was Scott Ruskan’s first mission as a rescue swimmer for the U.S. Coast Guard on the Fourth of July along the Guadalupe River.

Pawleys Island Police Department confirmed drowning victim Chase Childers of Georgia died “trying to save” other swimmers who ...

A body was recovered from the ocean off the coast of Pawleys Island on Sunday evening after earlier reports of a swimmer in ...