Around 3 p.m. yesterday, residents of Clement Hall in the West Neighborhood were roused out of their routines by a fire alarm. Upon evacuating the building, they were stunned to see smoke rising from a third story room. This time, that alarm was no drill. Greenville Fire and Rescue, The ECU Police Department and other emergency services crewmembers arrived on scene within minutes in response to the fire, and what unfolded thereafter resembles a scene from an action film. »
It took nearly a dozen firefighters and heavy equipment to get a horse back on its feet. A 32 year old Palomino was pulled from the mud after a two hour rescue effort in western Lake Worth. The animal is doing fine after a long day and few tense hours. »
After he and the father hugged and cried, Police Officer Edgar Louis-Juste said he did not even know the name of the year-old baby he had saved from choking. »
“You don’t think you hide behind your hair,” said junior drama major Katie Swaim. “But you really do.” »
It was a sad Christmas for Sandra Ramirez of Kenosha and her family without their dog, Cooper. »
Last August, New York City taxi driver Hossam Abdalla held a case that contained nearly a (m) million dollars’ worth of gold, diamonds and titanium.
But he soon got something he considers more valuable: the satisfaction of getting it back to the jeweler who left it in his cab. »
A purse containing a million dollars worth of jewellery was on its way back to its owner in Canada on Tuesday after being forgotten on a bench in a town near San Francisco, police said. »
THEY had not set eyes on each other since 1944, when Marie-Henriette Steffens bravely sheltered him from the Germans after his tank broke down. »
Army Sgt. Conley Shirley never considered himself a hero. »
“That man saved my life,” said Leesburg, Ga., trucker Herman Langford about Douglas Crawford, named the 23rd Goodyear North America Highway Hero on March 23 at the Truck Writers of North America awards banquet. »
The baby was blue, and the nanny was sprawled in the middle of Second Avenue with a bone sticking out of her leg. »
A blind man took the hands of his 84-year-old neighbor and safely led the woman through heavy smoke to escape from her burning house Monday night. »
Residents from throughout Connecticut donated their time and their hair on Monday to help children suffering from cancer. »
Police spent much of Monday afternoon searching for the family of a 3-year-old boy who was found wandering alone in Sunrise. »
Pastor Joe Smith of Southside Union Chapel saw hunger in the eyes of people on Olean’s streets and he couldn’t look away. »