Anthony Stephen Capuano
A 68-year-old man remained in the driver’s seat of his car after it plunged into Newark Bay near Bayonne, New Jersey, on Nov. 10, 2020. As Joseph M. Kadian screamed …
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William Werts, Jr.
William Werts, Jr., 56, of New Castle, Delaware, a maintenance worker for a Wilmington, Delaware, apartment complex, rushed to the scene of a Nov. 25, 2020, fire in a second-story …
Jason R. Milks
A 35-year-old woman was swimming on May 26, 2020, in the 50-degree Pacific Ocean off of Seaside, Oregon, with a kickboard when she was pulled away from shore and shouted …
Antonio Raul Rivera
A 64-year-old man fled his home April 21, 2021, after his 26-year-old son stabbed him in the head. Collapsing in his Bolingbrook, Illinois, front yard, the man screamed for help. …
Katelynn Saengdala
When a 39-year-old, Kitchener, Ontario, man and his 12-year-old daughter struggled on Aug. 27, 2020, in Lake Erie off of Port Colborne, Ontario, Katelynn Saengdala, a 32-year-old manufacturing worker of …
Lewis A. Medina
Lewis A. Medina, a 60-year-old construction driver of Aurora, Illinois, was driving in Aurora on the night of Oct. 9, 2021, when he spotted a sports utility vehicle on a …
Anthony Peterkin and Jaden DeShawn Peterkin
A father-and-son team sustained injuries after removing an 88-year-old man who had collapsed in his burning Fayetteville, North Carolina, home on April 11, 2021. Russell D. Cox was lying on …
Wyatt Tucker Shields
A man harassed Kevin Alkinburg, 24, who was walking on a public street with his female partner, 23, in Washington, District of Columbia, July 31, 2021. The man demanded the …
Brandon Bair
Steven W. Jenson, 25, remained pinned and severely injured in the driver’s seat of a semi-truck that, in a May 6, 2021, accident with a train in St. Anthony, Idaho, …
Darnell J. Wilson
Restaurant owner Evangela Stanley, 53, was getting ready to lock her Rochester, New York, restaurant on the night of Dec. 23, 2019, when a 27-year-old gunman rushed into the business. …
Adam Layman Thomas, deceased
From a bicycle trail along a Louisville, Kentucky, road, a 36-year-old woman climbed over a railing and entered the swollen, swift-flowing Ohio River on Jan. 13. As the woman swam …
Andrew Parent and Roger Combs
A 72-year-old man was driving a pickup truck on June 21, 2021, when it left a Westmoreland, New York, highway, struck a utility pole, overturned onto its roof, and came …
Jacob M. Smith
On May 22, 2019, Jacob M. Smith, a 27-year-old real estate professional, escaped his burning Arlington, Washington, home through a second-floor bedroom window. After reaching safety, he learned that his …
Ross C. Johnson
A 13-year-old was carried 450 feet from shore by a rip current in the Atlantic Ocean off of Neptune Beach, Florida, on May 17, 2020. Rough conditions made it difficult …
Peter Rosengren
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 …
Justin Leland Perry and Jason Hadfield
Zachary Johnson Haugen and Jake Vageli Watson
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 …
Daniel L. Cook and Brandon Melancon
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.
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 …
Layne Paul Gravois and Kim A. McGrady
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, …