Author: Jewels Phraner

Newspaper executive Peter Rosengren, 42, of Batavia, Illinois, drowned March 28, 2021, after helping to rescue a 9-year-old boy from drowning in rough water of the Gulf of Mexico off …

Two Arizona high school students entered turbulent water on July 3, 2020, to save 18-year-old Thanya Huerta and an 11-year-old girl, who were swept into the Pacific Ocean from a …

A boom truck driver was trapped in the driver’s seat, after a June 9, 2020, accident in Derry, Louisiana, that left the truck overturned and on fire. Daniel L. Cook, …

Arthur R. Caballero, Sr., a 62-year-old painter of Fresno, California, was fishing June 9, 2020, in the Kings River near Sanger, California, when he saw a 7-year-old girl in another …

Alerted on the beach that children were in distress in the April 8 turbulent waters of the Gulf of Mexico off of Miramar Beach, Florida, college student Layne Paul Gravois, …

A 56-year-old pilot rushed to the scene of a plane that had, on Oct. 13, 2020, crash-landed on a New Carlisle, Ohio, grass runway, overturned, and caught fire. Couple Joyce …

A 13-year-old boy was on a boat outing when he and several others left the boat to wade on a nearby sandbar. The boat drifted away from the sandbar and …

Christopher Lee Taylor, 36, forklift operator, of Greenville, Ohio, was driving through a local neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2020, when he saw flames on a nearby home’s second floor. Taylor …

As Evan Daniel Townsley drove through a Los Angeles neighborhood on July 23, 2021, he heard a woman screaming for help. The 66-year-old woman had been walking on a sidewalk …

A violent accident on Aug. 12, 2020, in Fort Worth, Texas, left driver Michael A. Loya, Jr., 40, semi-conscious, badly injured, and pinned in a burning work truck containing flammable …

On July 19, 2020, a man and two children struggled in deep water in Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan. A member of her college swim team, Marena L. Kouba, 21, …

A 10-year-old boy drowned June 12, 2021, while saving his 5-year-old sister from the same fate in the Big Sioux River near Hudson, South Dakota. Ricky Lee Sneve of Hudson …

A 48-year-old woman was shot four times March 5, 2020, after she attacked a man demanding money from her brother at gunpoint inside his Charlotte, North Carolina, restaurant. As the …

An unconscious, 10-year-old girl was floating in the Pacific Ocean about 375 feet from shore off the coast of San Diego on May 14, 2020. The 62-degree water was turbulent …

A 37-year-old man and his 3-year-old son were wading on a sandy shelf off an Apollo Beach, Florida, beach on June 11, when a strong tidal current carried them into …

Kelli A. Daley, 54, was standing on a subway platform in New York City, on May 19, 2021, waiting for a train home when a 22-year-old man with a knife …

A 71-year-old man was mortally wounded after a man armed with a machete entered a home containing 70 people and swung it indiscriminately, slashing anyone near him. Those in the …

A 73-year-old woman, Carol S. DeLillo, was tending her Okatie, South Carolina, backyard on the evening of July 3, 2020, near the bank of an 8-foot-deep pond when an alligator, …