Rescue is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.

[1] Rescue consists of primarily farmland, vineyards are a part of the Sierra Foothills AVA and ranches with an expanding amount of residential neighborhoods and businesses.

Downtown Rescue is quite small, with only a post office,[3] Fire Station,[4] two churches, and a Community Center[5] to distinguish it from the more rural areas.

A restaurant operated in the former quarters of a longtime business known as Rescue Store[6] which also sold gasoline, but has been closed for a few years.

The Reserve is one unit of the much larger Pine Hill Preserve [8] system that consists of five separate units of varying size that total more than 4,000 acres (16 km2) and protects eight rare plants and their gabbro soil habitat.