Rescue

21 Heroes Get Carnegie Medal For Risking Their Lives For Another

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 03.21.2012

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-- Winners of Carnegie Hero medals awarded Wednesday: _ Cara A. Ellis, 21, of Little Egg Harbor Township, N.J., died attempting to rescue Bryan H. M...

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WATCH: Man Rescued From Burning Car By Policemen

Posted 03.07.2012

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Two Keizer, Ore., police officers were bestowed with Medals of Valor on Monday after risking their lives to rescue a man from a burning car, KATU repo...

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WATCH: Drowning Homeless Man Rescued By Good Samaritan

Posted 03.05.2012

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A homeless man almost drowned Sunday while attempting to swim to a public dock on Oregon's Willamette River. Fortunately, the quick response of a good...

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Woman Rescued From Speeding Train Moments Before Smashing Car

Posted 02.24.2012

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Stuck on the tracks of the CSX railroad in Newark, Del., 24-year-old Monique Dyton and her sister Christina Johnson, 22, were just moments away from d...

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State Trooper Rescues Man From Fiery Truck Explosion

Posted 02.21.2012

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When Luis Cotto, 42, of Taunton, Mass., lost control of his tractor truck on a bridge early Sunday, the vehicle burst into flames. Fast-acting Stat...

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2-Year-Old Ken. Girl Rescued After Getting Stuck In Arcade Game

Posted 02.17.2012

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Kaytlyn Campbell, a 2-year-old from Lexington, Ky., wasn't very comforted by the stuffed animals around her when she got stuck inside an arcade game o...

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The 10 Most Amazing Tales of Animal Rescue (VIDEO)

Posted 02.03.2012

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We hear and read stories about these kinds of heroic acts all the time. Whether it's our fellow man helping out man's best friend or people putting as...

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Bystanders Jump Into Icy River To Perform Heroic Rescue

AP | By LYNN DeBRUIN | Posted 03.02.2012

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SALT LAKE CITY -- As many as 10 people jumped into an icy Utah river to help save three trapped children after a car plunged down a 10-foot embankment...

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Rescuers Save Family Buried In Snow For 2 Days

AP | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 12.23.2011

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Rescuers on Wednesday pulled a Texas family from an SUV that had been buried in a snowdrift on a rural New Mexico highway for nea...

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The Stray Dogs Of Thailand And How Travel Can Help Them

Wendy Diamond | Posted 12.11.2011

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Thailand is filled with abandoned pets, but a grassroots effort is beginning to take shape to help these abandoned animals.

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Lending a Helping Paw on the 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.08.2011

While our firefighters and police officers became real-life superheroes on September 11th, we must not forget the four-legged heroes who played a big part.

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Neighbors Rescue Burn Victim From Ravenswood Fire

Posted 10.22.2011

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Two residents of a burning Ravenswood apartment rescued a critically injured neighbor during an early Monday fire. Nick Salazar, one of the two ne...

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Missing Deputy Found Dead After Attempting To Save Girl

AP | Posted 09.30.2011

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DOUGLAS, Wyo. -- The body of a Wyoming deputy who jumped in the North Platte River to assist a struggling girl was discovered Sunday. It was the four...

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Yosemite Rangers Search for Hikers Believed Swept Over Falls

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 09.18.2011

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FRESNO, Calif. — A search and rescue operation at Yosemite National Park is set to resume at first light Wednesday in an area below a popular wa...

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Man Earns Carnegie Medal For Heroic Act, Vows To Become Firefighter

Posted 06.10.2011

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NBC Action News reports that one man earned a Carnegie Medal for an act of heroism in his community. The life-changing act has since encouraged him to...

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The 'Surprises' of the Japanese Crisis and the Investment Lessons to Learn

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 10.26.2011

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Surprise consequences to the earthquake in Japan have revealed significant weaknesses in both the worlds of politics and business and from an investment point of view, there are lessons we can learn.

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Man Dons Scuba Gear And Swims To Rescue Wife And Mother

Posted 05.25.2011

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When 43-year-old Hideaki Akaiwa returned to his northeastern hometown of Ishinomaki, Japan it was already a disaster zone flooded in water and loose r...

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Paris Grandmother Trapped For 3 Weeks In Toilet Before Being Rescued

Posted 05.25.2011

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A 69-year-old French grandmother was trapped in her bathroom for three weeks before finally being rescued Friday, the BBC is reporting. According to...

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The Chilean Miners and Reality TV

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 05.25.2011

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What lessons are there for us about working class solidarity and commitment to one another in the way these miners lived together under unimaginable stress?

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When Stars and Teams Align: A Lesson from the Miraculous Rescue of Chile's Miners

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Chi-Chi-Chi, Le-Le-Le. Los mineros de Chile!" If these words don't make your heart sing or your eyes water, what possibly will? More than two month...

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Chile is More Than 33 Miners -- The February 2010 Quake & Tsunami

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chilean Miners, Tsunami, Disaster Assistance, Sebastian Pinera, Chile, Rescue, Earthquake, Haiti, Mining, Apollo 13, Chile Earthquake, World News

If Americans want to express their joy and admiration for Chile's heroic mine rescue, they can revisit Chile's current need for assistance to hundreds of thousands of quake and tsunami victims.

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Good Samaritan Rescues Kidnapped Girl

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Victor Perez, Rescue, Amber Alert, Kidnapping, Gergorio Gonzalez, Impact News

An out of work carpenter is being hailed as a hero Tuesday after rescuing an 8-year-old girl who had been kidnapped the day before. Victor Perez re...

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Boulder, Colorado: Top 10 Least Dog-Friendly Town in US?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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And, with the Humane Society giving up Animal Control to an outside, for-profit mercenary team, the relationship between the citizens of Boulder and the Animal Control we pay for will likely get worse.

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Woman Saves Tailback's Life At High School Football Game

Posted 05.25.2011

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The life of an Oregon high school student Hayward Demison was saved by a cardiac nurse who performed CPR on the football tailback when he had a heart ...

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The Coast Guard Heroes of 9/11

David Helvarg | Posted 05.25.2011

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We ought to remember the Coast Guard and all the working mariners they helped mobilize on 9/11 for what would prove to be, though few people know it, the largest maritime evacuation in world history.

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