Water Rescue

A young Cape Cod boy got a huge welcome when he got home after spending more than three months in the hospital. On June 26, 5-year-old Zohaib “Little Z” Malik Mohammed went missing at Snake Pond Beach in the Forestdale section of Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was soon found unresponsive underwater. When first responders arrived at the scene, people on the…

A 5-year-old boy who nearly drowned on a Cape Cod beach was welcomed home after more than three months Thursday.

This is not how Daniel Trevino thought his morning fishing trip would go off the shore in Lynn, Massachusetts. But then he and his friend saw a small dinghy in distress and they raced to help five boaters all in the water.

Five people had to be rescued from the water after their small boat capsized Thursday morning off the coast of Lynn, Massachusetts. The boaters were rescued after a private boat, as well as the Lynn Fire Department and Lynn Harbormaster, stepped in to help, according to Lynn Fire Chief Stephen Archer. One person was taken to the hospital, and everyone…

A father and son held on for their lives by clinging to a cooler and lifebuoy while stranded off the coast of Boston Wednesday evening. Officers Stephen Merrick and Garret Boyle of the Boston Police Harbor Unit responded to the 911 call at 6:30 p.m. “We’re so weak, I can’t even move. Help him up, please,” the son said...

Two people had to hang onto a floating cooler after their boat sank in Boston Harbor.

Boston EMS is conducting a water rescue in that area, the agency confirmed early Friday morning.

A multi-agency water search was called off Friday after police learned that a man who was previously thought to have been missing after jumping off a bridge didn’t jump in the water after all, troopers said. Massachusetts state troopers and Boston police began a search at around 4:30 a.m. Friday for someone who jumped off the Beades Bridge on...

Emergency crews were called in to rescue two paddleboarders who were blown out to sea off the coast of Coffin Beach in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. Police and the harbormaster responded just before 12:30 p.m. when they received a 911 call from a concerned man who said his wife and son had been paddleboarding and were blown out by strong…

Three men are missing and presumed dead in California after a child was caught in a river current and they swam out in an attempt to rescue him, authorities said.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a person in the water off the coast of Massachusetts, the agency wrote on Twitter Friday morning.

Officials believe the man may have had a medical emergency.

A pregnant woman and a baby were among those rescued.

Three fishermen were rescued Tuesday after their boat sank off the coast of Scituate, Massachusetts.

In tonight’s Daily Debrief, a swift save when 3 fishermen are rescued from freezing cold waters off Scituate. Plus, the girlfriend of Boston Police officer John O’Keefe is charged in connection with his death. And, Punxsutawney Phil predicts at least six more weeks of winter.

Three men whose boat sank off the coast of Scituate were rescued from the frigid water.

A woman’s body was found near a restaurant in the waters of Narragansett Bay near Bristol, Rhode Island, Thursday, police said. Police in Portsmouth said Friday that the body is that of a woman who fell from a ferry in the bay this week, She was 39-year-old Laura Ward from Prudence Island. The body was found in the water...

After a man’s boat flipped on a Tyngsboro lake, throwing him into the frigid water, a nearby angler quickly went into rescue mode.

First responders searched overnight for a person in the water in or around Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Monday night, officials said. A woman fell off the Prudence Island ferry about 6:30 p.m., Bristol’s fire chief told NBC affiliate WJAR. But the search was suspended Tuesday, after Coast Guard crews spent 10 hours scanning 39 square nautical miles without finding her,…

Firefighters rescued a woman stuck in the waters of Boston Harbor off Chelsea, after she said she’d been in the water for hours.