A 911 caller alerted rescuers that a car was in the river at 9:08 a.m. near 601 Righters Ferry Road. Two Lower Merion police officers and a Union Fire Company firefighter were first on the scene, and pulled the woman from the car.

Rescue crews in an inflatable boat pulled one person out of a car that went underwater in the Schuylkill River.

A 77-year-old woman is in critical condition after her car plunged into the Schuylkill River Tuesday morning in Bala Cynwyd, Lower Merion Township.

Rescue teams in Tanzania say they have managed to establish contact with people who are still trapped a day after a four-storey building collapsed in the biggest city, Dar es Salaam. They are managing to send them supplies of water,

Rescuers worked to reach people still trapped in a collapsed building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Monday, with the death toll rising to 16.

Rescuers in Tanzania have reached survivors stranded when a building collapsed Saturday in the Kariakoo area of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania's biggest city, killing at least 13.