The POWs called these rescuers the angels of mercy.
Quotes about rescuers (11 Quotes)
It's not us saving people. It's us getting the technology to the people who will use it to save people. I always hate it when I hear people saying that we think we're rescuers. We're not. We're scientists. That's our role.
Also disturbing, he says, was the confusion among rescuers. No one was really in charge, ... The military was there directing buses and people, but nobody was there say, 'Hey, you all get on this bus, you all get on that bus.' Nobody really knew what was going on. People on our bus were asking, 'Are we going to this place or that place' We just followed the other buses.
There are dead bodies floating in some of the water, ... The rescuers would basically push them aside as they were trying to save individuals.
Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran up stairs and risked their lives so that others might live when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
They were huddled right up together. She was taking care of her sister. She told (the rescuers) she had to wait for her mother.
It's a terrible day for Tyrol, the worst avalanche accident since World War II. About 350 men (rescuers) are gathered together, helicopters too, but it doesn't do any good if it keeps snowing and you can't fly.
To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.
Rescuers are hoping that the majority of people trapped in the ruins can be brought out alive.
We are only praying and hoping that the rescuers will find more survivors. One more person died while undergoing a treatment at the hospital this afternoon bringing the death toll so far to 14.
it's not worth risking a rescuer's life if the ground is unstable... we believe they're dead.