ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County Fire District 8 (SCFD8) rescued a man after he was stuck in the mud for several hours in the Saltese Flats area. The man, who was fishing in a pond, managed to alert ...

Emergency services rushed to rescue a teenager who had got stuck in mud flats. Crews from the fire service, police, and coastguard were dispatched to the mud flats at the bottom of Quay Lane in ...

"The more he struggled, the deeper he became," local police said. A man who was duck hunting in coastal Maine had to be rescued by police after getting stuck in quicksand-like mud that reached up to ...