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An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the capital Thursday heavily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline. An explosion at Pemex main headquarters — Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the Mexico City killed 14 people and [...]

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Firefighters in Chicago were back at the scene of a massive warehouse fire Thursday morning after flames rekindled. Crews originally battled the blaze Tuesday night in frigid temperatures that left the gutted structure caked in ice. Chicago firefighters about 6:00 a.m. Thursday went to work to stop a rekindle at the warehouse ruins of a [...]

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The Coast Guard says it airlifted a man with heart disease from a sailboat in the stormy Gulf of Mexico to shore in Louisiana. The Coast Guard said officials were called early Thursday about a couple aboard a 64-foot sailboat bound for Houston. A US Coast Guard helicopter from Mobile, Alabama responded to a report [...]

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A Good Samaritan helped free a passenger from a burning car in Jupiter, Florida while police pulled the driver and another passenger to safety. The entire incident was captured on a police officer’s dashboard camera. Jupiter police and Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded about 10:21 p.m. Wednesday to a crash near the intersection of [...]

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A replica tall ship caught in Hurricane Sandy’s wrath began taking on water, forcing the crew to abandon the boat Monday off the North Carolina coast. The Coast Guard rescued 14 crew members by helicopter, but two people were still missing (See 11-minute video below). The owner of the HMS Bounty called the United States [...]

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When a sport utility vehicle ran off a stretch of interstate and slammed into trees in Mississippi off of Interstate 10, nearly two dozen people rushed to help two sisters who were trapped inside the burning vehicle. Among the citizen rescuers at the Mississippi-Louisiana border was AP photographer Gerald Herbert. A woman and her disabled [...]

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A Chinese boy gave authorities in Hezhang Country a bit of a headache on Sunday – when he managed to get his head firmly lodged in a stone balustrade. He was freed using hydraulic spreading pliers. Hezhang County is a county of Guizhou, China. Guizhou is known as a southern region of China that Chinese [...]

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[999 in UK, 9-1-1 in US] … Vinnie Jones shows how hard and fast Hands-only CPR to Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees can help save the life of someone who has had a cardiac arrest. The Hollywood hardman is starring in a British Heart Foundation TV advert urging more people to carry out CPR [...]

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Rescuers pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by an avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo. A five-year-old girl, Asmira Reka, was rescued in the village of Restelica after local villagers used shovels during a [...]

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Eleven fishermen from two boats are safe after separate incidents around Kodiak Island. the first incident involved a vessel which ran aground on Portage Bay Tuesday. The second involved another, which sank south of Kodiak Island Wednesday. Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from [...]

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A man standing behind WTVW Television Reporter Drew Gardner has a dangerously close call with a chainsaw during storm coverage story in Mount Carmel in Southern Illinois. Undated video of reporter using tree removal scene as a background. The uprooted tree shifts weight and the chain saw operator falls with the chain saw coming close [...]

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Police say seven children were injured by flying debris as they watched a helicopter land during a police exercise in Serbia. Injuries as serious as a fractured collar bone and concussions were reported after helicopter blades during an anti-terrorist demonstration in Jagondina, Serbia, generated air flow that disrupted banners and created debris that struck spectators. [...]

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