Gale Walker explains how a baby was saved after a call came in on an ECB (Emergency Call Box). Transit officials in Philadelphia say an old-fashioned but vital piece of safety equipment helped avert disaster when a stroller carrying a baby fell onto train tracks. The baby suffered a facial laceration, but have been killed [...]
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Quick Response to Call Box Saved Baby on Philadelphia Train Tracks
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Painter/Decorators Power Washing A Warehouse and Police Rescue Driver From Burning Truck After Crash At Thorndale Ave and Lively Blvd, Elk Grove Village
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VIDEO: Aftermath of truck crash with fire, followed by interview with men who saved the life of a truck driver who was trapped in his burning truck after a crash at Lively Boulevard and Thorndale Avenue. Elk Grove Village police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 2:31 PM Monday to a report of a crash involving two [...]
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Heavy Lifting: Daughters Haylee Smith, Hannah Smith Rescue Dad From Overturned Tractor in Lebanon, Oregon
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KVAL VIDEO: Two daughters in Western Oregon saved their father from an overturned tractor. The girls lifted the tractor enough to help their father breathe, until help arrived. Hannah and Haylee Smith, 16 and 14 respectively, had just come home from school when they heard cries for help from their father, Jeff Smith. Miraculously, they [...]
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Citizen Rescuers: AP Photographer Gerald Herbert On the Scene Recounts Burning SUV Rescue in Hancock County, Mississippi
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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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VIDEO: Mike Polocz, Dustin Klepacki, Charlie Mettile Rescue Baby Bear from Drowning in Whirlpool on Kenai River, Alaska
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Mike Polocz: “We watched helplessly as Momma bear decided to abandon this struggling cub in a whirlpool. It took about 15 minutes before we were lucky enough to pull him out of the current. This little guy was completly teriffied, however upon making it to shore he let out one more cry for mom and [...]
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Keyla McCree, 7-Year-old Girl Falls Three Stories Into Man’s Protective Arms in Brooklyn
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A seven-year-old autistic girl climbed out on to a window ledge of her Brooklyn apartment. Cell phone video captured the girl’s fall in the arms of a man standing below. Keyla McCree, 7, of Brooklyn fell from a third-floor window, but was saved by an alert neighbor who absorbed the force of her fall. Keyla [...]
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Arlington Heights Ford Sales Manager Sam Vasco Grabbed Fire Extinguisher, 5 Others Helped at Crash by Portillo’s
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VIDEO: MINI Cooper Crash with tree in front of Portillo’s and Arlington Heights Ford on Dundee Road. At least six people came to the rescue for a woman who crashed into a tree in front of Portillo’s Thursday just before 7:00 p.m. Arlington Heights Ford Sales Manager Sam Vasco said “he had never seen anything [...]
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Maybe She “Had it Up to Here,” Woman Walks Into Retention Pond Depth to Her Neck
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Buffalo Grove police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday to a report of woman that walked into a retention pond at Barclay Boulevard at Corporate Grove Drive. A security officer reported that a female subject exited the company and walked directly into a retention lake. The subject was in the water up to her [...]
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Morton Grove Fire Called to Rescue Woman for Clothes Stuck in Escalator at LA Fitness on Dempster Rd
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Morton Grove firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:27 a.m. Sunday to a report of a woman with clothes “stuck in an elevator door” at LA Fitness, 6821 Dempster Road. Firefighters first on the scene reported a woman had clothes entrapped in an escalator at the second floor. The woman’s clothing was cut to free her from the [...]
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Brad Luddeke of Arlington, Texas or Santa from North Pole Rescues Man After Crash and Fire
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Report from WFAA Channel 8 (ABC affiliate) “Santa, He came from Arlington.” Brad Luddeke, 52, is a former volunteer firefighter from Arlington, Texas. While dressed as Santa Claus on the return trip from a gift run of toys for families, he witnessed a bad two-vehicle crash at Interstate 635 and Belt Line Road in Coppell, [...]
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Mom Drops Infant to Citizen Rescuer, Lowers 3-Year-Old from Third Floor Window During Apartment Fire in Stone Mountain, Georgia
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A baby and a three year old girl survive a fire after being dropped from the third floor of a burning building. Several police officers also helped in the rescue of the two children and three adults Wednesday night. During a fire in a ground floor apartment about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, a mother dropped her [...]
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Robin Dehaven Rescues People from Echelon Building with Glass Truck Ladder
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Raw Video of Echelon Building plane crash attack from George Castle. Robin Dehaven rescued five survivors of the Echelon Building plane attack with his Binswanger Glass company work truck ladder. He was on the way to do his work as a glass worker with his work truck, when he saw a plane crash over a [...]
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