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Five women, all part of the same cycling team, were riding on a remote, forest trail near Fall City, Washington, on Feb. 17, 2024, when a cougar lunged at 60-year-old …

A 29-year-old woman was unconscious in the driver’s seat of her two-door coupe after a May 17, 2022, accident in which the car left a Greensboro, North Carolina, rural road …

Two preteen sisters were playing in Lake Michigan off of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 27, 2023, when they both began to struggle at a point beyond wadable water. They fought …

Halil Cakmaktas, 70, was fishing from a narrow, concrete pier near a channel connecting Keith Lake to the Port Arthur Ship Canal in Port Arthur, Texas, on July 21, 2021, …

At least 45 people were in the social hall of a Laguna Woods, California, church following a May 15, 2022, luncheon, when a 68-year-old man armed with two semi-automatic pistols …

Three men in their 20s were on a recreational pier in Bracebridge, Ontario, that extended over the Muskoka River on August 24, 2020, when one of them accidentally entered the …

A 14-year-old girl and her 18-year-old cousin were swimming in Lake Michigan off Porter, Indiana, when they were caught in a rip current and waves 4 feet high on June …

Bennett Roth, 69, was walking after nightfall along a six-lane street in Washington, District of Columbia, on Jan. 11, 2024, when a vehicle stopped beside him and multiple people in …

Seven-year-old Ava and 6-year-old Evelyn Novecosky were playing outside on the afternoon of Nov. 4, when they fell through thin ice covering Humboldt Lake outside their home near Humboldt, Saskatchewan. …

In the afternoon of July 9, 2022, in North Topsail Beach, North Carolina, two women, 24 and 33, were teaching two young family members, 7 and 6, how to use …

An 8-year-old boy fell unconscious to the ground, his body smoking, after being electrocuted on Aug. 30, 2022, by a live wire that had been downed above a residential street …

A 35-year-old woman entered the Boynton Inlet near Ocean Ridge, Florida, on Nov. 30, 2023. The inlet is flanked by seawalls making exiting the water extremely difficult. Additionally, a strong, …

Two 11-year-old boys were playing near a retention pond in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Aug. 29, 2022, when the one of them slipped into the water and was pulled through a …

On Dec. 22, 2020, a 72-year-old woman was out for a walk in a Florissant, Missouri, neighborhood, when four pit bull dogs attacked her on a sidewalk. The dogs knocked …

Two teenage girls were swimming on June 22, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean off of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, when they were caught in a rip current and struggled to …

A 53-year-old woman was inside her Ridge, New York, home when a fire broke out in her living room on Jan. 20, 2022. The woman had poor mobility related to …

A father was fishing at a bank of the Iowa River on Aug. 5, 2022, in Lone Tree, Iowa, when an 8-year-old boy entered the water and, after he waded …

On Nov. 9, 2021, Cynthia Chambery, 67, was in a bedroom of her one-story house in Lima, New York, when a fire broke out in the basement. Her husband told …

A Nov. 11, 2023, shoot-out on a Houston freeway left one police officer shot and others immediately seeking cover after a 19-year-old man crashed a stolen vehicle and then opened …

A fire broke out in the early morning hours of Jan. 10, 2023, in the Quincy, Washington, home of a 67-year-old woman who suffered from long-term illnesses and utilized home …