Operator of Electrified Crane Rescued
The arm of a crane in Chester, Connecticut, hit live power lines, electrifying the crane. »
The arm of a crane in Chester, Connecticut, hit live power lines, electrifying the crane. »
Technology is everything these days… »
In Pittsburgh two workers were rescued. They had been trapped in an air shaft above the Liberty tunnels. »
The coast guard has rescued two boaters missing since Saturday. »
A Chicago mother rescued her 2 children early Monday. »
The sad part is that the house in which the couple lived for over 40 years is a total loss. It’s burned down to the ground. »
Neighbors rescued a woman from her burning home early Monday morning, and three firefighters were hurt putting out the flames in Green Bay. »
Two police officers used a garden hose to douse flames so they could enter a burning building and rescue a man. »
A young girl who fell from a boat into the River Nene was just seconds from death when she was snatched from the water by an angler who spotted her plight.
The child, who is thought to be about four years old, was underwater and drowning when angling match organiser Ken Wade raced to the scene and slithered down the river bank on his stomach to reach down and get hold of her wrist. »
A house fire Monday morning forced a woman to drop a two-year-old child from a second-story window before she was rescued herself by firefighters. »
A WOMAN and three children were rescued yesterday after they were blown out to sea in a toy dinghy.
Clyde coastguard said the family did not have a paddle and were not wearing lifejackets when they were caught out by a strong offshore wind. »
Fire crews worked to rescue two men trapped inside a crane that collapsed in Baltimore County Wednesday afternoon. »
Mountaineers performed a complicated rope rescue Tuesday night on Mount McKinley to reach a climber after the man tumbled 2,000 feet down the mountain. »
The actions of four divers who spent three hours drifting in heavy currents off the Donegal coast have been praised by the Irish Coastguard. »
A man has been rescued from the balcony of his 10th-storey flat in the early hours of this morning. »
Firefighters called to a burning car overnight in Auckland thought they were dealing with a fatality, but they rescued a man inside - just in the nick of time. »
A dramatic rescue took place on the River Yare outside Norwich yesterday after a man broke his shoulder bone when his dinghy capsized, tipping him into the water. »
Water filled an upside-down Subaru that plunged into an irrigation canal Saturday evening, but Wenatchee police and firefighters freed the driver after an ordeal that lasted between five and 10 minutes, police and fire officials said. »
AN UNNAMED hero rescued a couple from a flat fire - and then disappeared without giving his name. »
A woman and her son are lucky to be alive after being pulled from their upside down, submerged vehicle after it crashed off a bridge into a Gisborne river this morning. »
It looked like it was going to be a routine run for Colfax Fire Capt. J.D. Smith and Lt. Eric Harmison. »
Two children had a close call in Merrimack when their car rolled into a pond. »
FOUR people have been praised after they saved two children from drowning. »
Five Woodward County girls were rescued Monday morning, a day after they went missing on the North Canadian River, said Matt Lehenbauer, county emergency management director. »
Two Fall River men are being credited with saving the life of a baby who fell into a storm drain over the weekend, Boston television station WCVB reported. »
A HEART attack patient has been reunited with the paramedic whose quick thinking helped save his life.
Gerry Wooster, of Bradley, Wrexham, was struck by a sudden heart attack when walking away from the fourth hole at Rhuddlan Golf Club last October. »
A Montreal cyclist who was rescued from the blades of an industrial-sized snowblower last week was introduced to his saviour by CBC Radio Thursday morning. »
A student pilot whose plane crashed into a snowy mountainside during a training flight survived overnight by wrapping himself in a tarp and then hiked out a mile through waist-deep snow to meet rescuers, authorities said Wednesday. »
An Indianapolis mother and her four-year-old daughter are recovering after their car crashed into a retention pond. »
A FELIXSTOWE (UK) man has commended his son’s bravery and quick thinking after he rescued his family from a house fire. »