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Hero Bus Driver Rescues Students From Burning Bus

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:35:11 +0000

You can’t get much more heroic than rescuing school children from a burning bus. Which is why public school officials and firefighters in Charlotte, North Carolina are raving about school bus driver Lindora Richardson, whose calm in the face of potential catastrophe may have saved the lives of the six children on her bus last Wednesday afternoon.

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Ohio Woman Discovers That Dialing the Wrong Number Can Save Lives [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:19:25 +0000

Dialing a wrong number isn’t usually a big deal, but for one woman in Ohio, it may very well have been. In fact, the call is probably the reason she’s still alive and well.

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Brave Students Rescue Man Stuck in Mud for Three Days [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:23:02 +0000

Thanks to a group of high school students on a field trip, a homeless man stuck in thick mud for three days near the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, New Mexico is alive and recovering at a local hospital.

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Navy SEALs Rescue Two Hostages From Pirates in Somalia

Aaron Galloway — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:17:15 +0000

Early Wednesday morning, SEAL Team Six parachuted into Somalia and rescued two hostages from a group of pirates. That's the same team that took out Bin Laden, but they didn't say whether the same guys were involved in both raids.

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Hero Rooster and Poodle Save Family From Fire [VIDEO]

Vetstreet Editors — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:09:56 +0000

You often hear about hero dogs and, on occasion, hero cats. But, how about a hero rooster?

Even more surprising, this courageous cockerel teamed up with a poodle to alert a family to a fire engulfing their Florida home. Vetstreet‘s Amy Sinatra Ayres has more on this story after the jump.

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Courageous Bystanders Rescue a Wheelchair-Bound Man Trapped Underneath SUV [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:49:28 +0000

In a supreme act of compassion on Thursday, a group of good Samaritans in Salt Lake City lifted a minivan off of a wheelchair-bound man trapped underneath. Superman is real! And he’s inside all of us.

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Tech-Savvy 4-Year-Old Saves His Unconscious Grandpa with an iPhone [VIDEO]

Kathy Landin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:40:12 +0000

Four-year-old Kanden Jones may not know the difference between taking a nap and blacking out, but he sure knows how to use an iPhone.
It was a guys’ day for the kid and his grandfather Carl Jones when the two were out deer hunting in the woods. When the worst happened — thankfully not a hunting disaster — Kanden was left with an unconscious grandpa.

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Prince William to the Rescue! Sailors Saved by Lt. William Wales

Shauna Wright — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:00:50 +0000

The dashing Prince William added to his allure on Sunday when he was part of a four-man team that rescued a pair of Russian sailors whose cargo ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of North Wales.

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Wilson Ramos Rescued in Police Raid on His Kidnappers in Venezuela

Danny Groner — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:19:59 +0000

After 51 hours in captivity, Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was rescued on Friday after being kidnapped from his home in Venezuela. Investigators quickly found the car used to abduct Ramos, and the house used to prepare for the kidnapping. From there, they zoned in on a cabin in the mountains where they suspected Ramos was being held.

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Heroic Firefighter Reunited With Boy Dropped From Burning Building [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:36:17 +0000

Boston firefighter Lt. Glenn McGillivray and six-year-old Xavier Lara were reunited last week for the first time since the first responder heroically saved the boy after he was dropped from the window of a burning building.

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Firefighters Use Mouth-To-Nose Respiration To Save Dog's Life In Gut-Wrenching Photos

Shauna Wright — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:20:06 +0000

What’s better than a firefighter? Two animal-loving firefighter with huge hearts.

On Tuesday in Wausau, Wisconsin, firefighters Jamie Giese and Jared Thompson were responding to a residential blaze when they found the homeowner’s seven-year-old yellow Labrador, Coda, trapped inside. Once they got him out, they performed mouth-to-nose respiration and gave him oxygen — despite having no formal training in animal rescue.

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Boy Dropped From Burning Building Thanks Firefighter Who Saved His Life [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:25:49 +0000

Xavier Lamb, the brave six-year-old who was caught by a firefighter on Monday after being dropped from the window of a burning building, offered thanks to his rescuer on ‘Today.’

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Brave Firefighter Catches Boy Dropped From Third-Story Window [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:28:18 +0000

On Monday, a Roxbury, MA firefighter took heroism to new heights by catching a terrified boy dropped from a window in a burning apartment building, according to ‘Today.’

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