A man in his 60s was injured Saturday afternoon when a 10-ton backhoe he was maneuvering up a dirt pile tipped over on its side, pinning him in the cab and driving his right leg into the ground. »
City firefighters yesterday morning rescued a construction worker after he fell approximately 15 feet into a hole at an East State Street work site. »
It’s a good thing Jose Olivares woke up at 3 a.m. to grab a glass of water. That’s when he saw his neighbors’ house going up in flames. »
A 2-year-old child was safe early Saturday after some brave neighbors formed a “human ladder” to rescue her from a burning building, fire officials said. »
A good Samaritan who heard an accident and ran to it this weekend ended up saving a life. »
Pulled from the flames: two rescuers rush into a burning house late in the night and pull out two young boys, possibly saving their lives. »
A postal carrier is being hailed a hero today after helping to stop a van from rolling out of control with two young children inside. »
A 15-year-old boy has been rescued from mud after he got stuck while walking home along the coast in Hampshire. »
The only thing Shirley Boothe could do was raise her hand and wait. »
“I din know why I just get up and walk around,” says 49-year-old Anita Ward, a security guard. But whatever prompted that routine procedure, Ward soon found herself rallying to the rescue of two girls from their home which was on fire. »
A 4-year-old girl was trapped under water for about 10 minutes after being pinned underneath a utility vehicle known as a “Gator”. »
It was just before midnight on Wednesday when a police surveillance team following several men believed responsible for a violent string of home invasions spotted two vehicles, including an unknown SUV, heading toward a Brampton strip plaza. »
Authorities credited a quick-thinking driver and aide with getting 17 children off a burning bus in Lawrence. »
Police say it was the bravery of a man who used his sweater as a rope that saved the life of a snowmobiler who had crashed through the Oxtongue River. »
A QUICK-THINKING mum rescued her young son after he became trapped in the doors of a tram. »
Search and rescue teams have found a lost 2½-year-old boy who wandered into the woods behind his home in eastern Nova Scotia on Monday afternoon. »
A man who jumped from a cruise ship off Florida’s coast early Friday was rescued about eight hours later by the U.S. coast guard, officials said. »
A Good Samaritan saves a woman’s life. Now, that woman would like to find the Good Samaritan so she can thank him. »
A woman had to be rescued last night after she became trapped under her car in a parking lot in Somerton south of Yuma. »
Three people trying to save one another after falling in icy water in the north of Moscow have escaped death because a police sergeant major rescued them all, police said Friday. »
TWO Bulli teenagers are being hailed heroes after rescuing an unconscious surfer from the waves on Saturday morning. »
On the surface, it appeared to be a routine crash in broad daylight. »
Steven Eades will always have an extra special bond with his son Gavin after the teenager saved his life as he collapsed with a heart attack at their Black Country home. »
Elizabeth Testerman was driving from her brother’s house in Marion to her son’s house in Noblesville on Jan. 9, 2006, during a vacation trip to Indiana when an accident almost cut her life short. »
A 4-year-old was trapped under water for 10 minutes tonight after the utility vehicle her mother was driving flipped into a pond on their property. »
Three people, including a one-year-old child, have been rescued from a fire in County Antrim. »
Princess Cruises is investigating how two passengers tumbled off a cruise ship cabin balcony and into the Gulf of Mexico, trigging a four-hour rescue effort. »
A hero rescued a baby from a blazing building before saving another 12 people trapped in the inferno. Vasco Cordeiro leapt 12 feet from his apartment on O’Connell Street in Waterford and plucked three-month-old tot Hayden from his terrified mum Clarissa McCormick’s arms. »
A one-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after he fell into a swimming pool at his home in Pretoria, paramedics said yesterday. »
A woman was pulled from a pond that she drove her car into on Tuesday morning thanks to a good Samaritan, police said. »