NTA Video Stories

Valencia, Spain – Firefighters broke through floor tiles to rescue a small dog that became trapped in a home’s drainage system in Sollana, south of Valencia. Footage released by the Valencia Provincial Consortium Firefighters on October 21 shows the crew from the Silla station lying on the floor, chipping away tiles with a hammer drill and shining a torch into the hole. They reach in and coa...

San Clemente, California – A fast-moving wildfire raced across the hills toward homes in Southern California’s San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, forcing thousands to flee as air tankers bombarded the flames with retardant. Footage released by the Orange County Fire Authority shows the view from a firefighting helicopter as a long line of flames burns along a ridge directly above rows of...

Youngstown, Ohio – Body camera footage released by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office shows deputies removing a woman from President Donald Trump’s rally in Youngstown after she was attacked by rallygoers. Footage from two deputies’ body cameras at the Covelli Centre on October 12 shows a deputy rushing down the stairs into the stands and pulling the woman, wearing a “Rel...

Moscow, Idaho – A sheriff’s deputy in northern Idaho freed a young moose that was found lying on the ground with its head and body wrapped in a roll of wire fencing. Body camera footage released by the Latah County Sheriff’s Office shows Deputy Frantz approaching the exhausted animal in a backyard on the morning of October 14, then using long-handled cutters to snip the wire away from...

Oliva, Spain – A maritime rescue helicopter winched eight adults, a child, a baby and a dog from floodwaters in eastern Spain, one of hundreds of rescues as the storm known as DANA Adam swamped the Valencia coast. Footage released by Spain’s Maritime Rescue service shows a rescuer being lowered from Helimer 202 over submerged fields and homes in Oliva on the morning of October 19, then hoist...

New York, New York – NYPD Emergency Service Unit officers brought a person in distress to safety on the Manhattan waterfront, in body camera footage released by the department. The video shows officers responding to a 911 call at about 10:43 a.m. on October 6, approaching the person at the railing beside the river, speaking calmly and then pulling them back over to safety. The NYPD said Detective...

Santa Fe, New Mexico – A police drone was first on the scene of a suspicious package in downtown Santa Fe, spotting the abandoned suitcase from the air within minutes and helping officers clear the area before bomb technicians arrived. Footage released by the Santa Fe Police Department shows the drone lifting over the city, flying across rooftops near the Railyard and zooming in on a dark suitcase...

Sonoma County, California – A sheriff’s helicopter crew lowered a flight officer on a 100-foot line to rescue a woman from a creek in rugged terrain in Northern California’s wine country after she sent a message saying she was stuck on a cliff. Footage released by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office shows the view from helicopter Henry-1 as the Tactical Flight Officer is lowered t...

Sutter County, California – Two California State Parks officers on their way to a training class pulled a woman from a burning, overturned car moments before it was engulfed in flames on a Northern California highway. Dashcam footage released by California State Parks shows flames and thick black smoke pouring from the wreck beside Highway 70 at dawn on October 16 as one officer radios, “The...

Littleton, Colorado – A raccoon tangled in wire in a Colorado wetland let its rescuer know exactly how it felt about the process, chattering and snarling as an animal control officer cut it free. Body camera footage released by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office shows Animal Control Officer Floyd draping a towel over the frightened animal near the Dutch Creek Trail and snipping away the w...

Farmington, New Mexico – The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office has released body camera footage of a deputy euthanizing a badly injured dog on a highway, saying social media claims about the incident did not reflect what happened. The video shows Deputy Cunningham patrolling Highway 64 at around 11 p.m. on October 14 when he found a vehicle stopped in a turn lane and an injured dog lying behi...

Easley, South Carolina – A police drone on a morning training flight in South Carolina caught a SpaceX rocket streaking across the dawn sky after it launched from Florida, hundreds of miles away. Footage released by the Easley Police Department on October 20 shows the rocket’s bright exhaust trail climbing above the horizon. It then swells into a glowing, jellyfish-like cloud, with two brigh...

Phoenix, Arizona – Hail bounced off a flooded parking lot and violent winds bent a tree almost sideways as a severe thunderstorm tore through north Phoenix on Wednesday, October 21. X user Steve S filmed the storm near Interstate 17 and Dunlap Avenue, writing that it “ripped through here with hail.” The footage shows rain driven almost horizontally across the lot as hailstones bounce o...

Marseille, France – A driver ploughed through still-flooded roads in Gignac-la-Nerthe, near Marseille, the morning after a deadly Mediterranean storm swamped the Bouches-du-Rhône. X user Coco filmed from behind the wheel on October 21, writing that the roads were “still flooded” and that it felt as though the car would be carried away. The footage shows a line of cars pushing through b...

Florida, United States – A glowing, jellyfish-shaped plume spread across the dawn sky over Southwest Florida after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the state’s east coast. X user Lynne filmed the spectacle on the morning of October 20 and posted four clips. They show the rocket’s white exhaust trail climbing into the sky, then a bright point of light trailing a wide, fan-shape...

Toledo, Ohio – Thick fog swallowed East Toledo on Wednesday morning, hours after a chemical leak in the north of the city forced about 1,000 people from their homes. X user Terry Eckman filmed the scene on the morning of October 21. Streetlights glow through a grey wall of mist and the outlines of pine trees fade into the murk. Toledo Fire & Rescue ordered an evacuation within a mile of 1266 P...

Mexico City, Mexico – Crowds of passengers streamed out beneath an elevated Metro line as fire burned along the underside of the viaduct near Velódromo station in Mexico City. X user Iván Gutiérrez filmed the scene on the night of October 20. The footage shows orange flames licking along the concrete structure above, then crowds of people walking away along the path under the elevated tracks. The...

Japan – A security camera in a Japanese dairy barn caught the moment a Holstein cow suddenly charged through a gate and slammed a farm worker into the metal bars. The clip, shared by X user あぶそん (Abuson) on October 20 with the caption “Poor me,” was recorded at 1:53 p.m. that day, according to the camera’s timestamp. The caption suggests the person knocked down was the poster...

Arizona, United States – Torrential rain hammered a backyard pool and gale-force winds bent the trees as a powerful storm system swept across Arizona on Wednesday, October 21. Footage filmed by X user NoChildAbuse69 from under a covered patio shows the pool surface churning violently under the downpour while a thick sheet of water pours off the roof. Rain blows sideways across the yard, trees and...

Martigues, France – Muddy floodwater swirled around rows of parked cars in Martigues, west of Marseille, as a violent Mediterranean storm battered the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Footage shared by X user vigiprevention_meteo, a weather account, on the morning of October 20 shows brown water flowing fast through a residential car park, rising around the wheels of dozens of vehicles as the camera l...

Mexico City, Mexico – Flames glowed beneath an elevated stretch of Mexico City’s Metro Line 9 as a fire forced passengers off trains and shut down part of the line on Tuesday night. X user Eduardo Ramos filmed the fire on the night of October 20 from a car just before Velódromo station, in the direction of Tacubaya. The footage shows smoke drifting around the concrete viaduct and fire burnin...

Marseille, France – Torrential rain turned the streets of Marseille into rivers as a violent Mediterranean storm battered the Bouches-du-Rhône department, with water bursting up from a manhole in the city center. X user SherifDeMars filmed the downpour on October 20, writing that it had been “the deluge since this morning” in the city. The footage shows pedestrians hunched under umbrel...

Palermo, Italy – A wall of flames snaked across a mountainside above Altavilla Milicia, east of Palermo, as hot scirocco winds fanned a night of wildfires across western Sicily. X user Joseph Frascati filmed the blaze in the early hours of October 21. One clip shows a long, curving line of fire racing across the slope behind electricity pylons under a smoke-filled orange sky. Another, filmed from...

Toulon, France – Floodwater surged across roads in La Garde, just outside Toulon, as a violent Mediterranean storm battered southern France’s Var department on Tuesday evening. X user Guillaume Jauseau filmed the scene on October 20, writing that the roads were starting to flood. The two clips show cars ploughing through fast-moving, churning water at a junction and rain hammering a flooded...

Toledo, Ohio – A driver crawled through a thick, glowing haze in the heart of Toledo overnight as a chemical release at a tank terminal in the north of the city forced evacuations and a shelter-in-place order. Footage of the drive, shared by X user Muscular Baby shortly after midnight on October 21 and captioned “the airborne toxic event,” shows red taillights barely visible through th...