rescue
rescue, n. 1. The act or an instance of saving or freeing someone from danger or captivity. 2. The forcible and unlawful freeing of a person from arrest or imprisonment. — Also termed rescous. [Cases: Rescue 1. C.J.S. Escape §§ 28–31, 33.] “A rescue signifies a forcible setting at liberty, against law, of a person […]