31.   Firefighters, police officers and other rescue personnel were among the injured.

32.   He pointed out that Palestinian Red Crescent rescue personnel had been killed by Israeli troops.

33.   It was found by air force search and rescue personnel who were were lowered from a helicopter.

34.   Marine rescue helicopters from Air Station Cherry Point were assisting military and civilian rescue personnel in the area, public affairs officer Capt. James Rich said.

35.   Marine rescue helicopters from Air Station Cherry Point were assisting military and civilian rescue personnel in the area, Rich said.

36.   Neutral Switzerland on Wednesday rejected a NATO request for armed medical and rescue personnel to back up the peace implementation force in Bosnia.

37.   Rescue personnel at the scene had to use mechanical equipment to cut open the badly damaged vehicles to get to the injured.

38.   Rescue personnel had not yet reached the scene.

39.   Rescue personnel performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

40.   Rescue personnel will parachute through the darkness, some using night vision goggles, to treat the wounded.