Sean L. James
Three children were trapped inside a SUV after a June 6, 2022, accident in Emporia, Kansas. Madilyn McNack, 6, and her brothers, Jaseh McNack, 2, and Alexander Wilson-McNack, 8, were …
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Three children were trapped inside a SUV after a June 6, 2022, accident in Emporia, Kansas. Madilyn McNack, 6, and her brothers, Jaseh McNack, 2, and Alexander Wilson-McNack, 8, were …
Posted on by Griffin Erdely
While backcountry skiing on Dec. 14, 2022, in a remote area of the Wasatch Mountain Range in Millcreek, Utah, Travis Haussener, 35, was caught in a 200-foot wide, 2-foot deep …
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A mother, 34, and her son, 4, had fallen unconscious inside the kitchen of their burning home on Feb. 2, 2022, in Green River, Wyoming. Ryan Pasborg, a 33-year-old derrickhand …
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A fire broke out on the rear deck of Stephen Pryke’s two-story home on Feb. 19, 2023, in Long Beach, New York. Pryke, 65, was in his bedroom when he …
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A father attempting to save his 13-year-old son from a house fire died Dec. 16, 2022. Flames broke out in the attic of their one-story, Bostwick, Georgia, home and spread …
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A 27-year-old woman was trapped inside her submerged sedan that slid off an icy road into a golf course pond in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Feb. 22, 2023. Lincoln police Sgt. …
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Flames broke out on the first floor of a two-story, Newport Beach, California, apartment on Dec. 20, 2022. Three children, ages 9, 6, and 5, were inside a bedroom on …
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A teenaged boy was swimming in Seattle’s Green Lake on April 21, 2021, when he submerged and did not resurface at a point about 80 feet from shore. His friend …
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Despite being instructed by a 911 operator to stay outside his next-door neighbor’s burning bungalow on March 2, Alan H. Mackie, a 63-year-old mechanic from Grand Valley, Ontario, knew his …
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A 39-year-old police officer gave chase to apprehend a man who had just robbed a Springfield, Massachusetts, store at knifepoint on Dec. 27, 2022. As she reached the man, he …
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Scott Kilburn, a 49-year-old metal fabricator of Waverly, Tennessee, and his wife were stranded on the roof of his pickup truck during heavy flooding in Waverly on Aug. 21, 2021. …
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F. Daniel Calix A., a 23-year-old roofer, was returning home Nov. 22, 2021, to his Flemington, New Jersey, apartment when he saw flames through the living room window of his …
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Two teen sisters entered near-freezing water to save two young boys from drowning after the boys broke through the ice of a retention pond situated in their West Des Moines, …
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A fish and wildlife enforcement officer jumped into action on May 7, 2022, to save a 7-year-old girl who was trapped underwater beneath an overturned boat in the Gulf of …
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A 25-year-old college student was driving in Irwin, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 16, 2022, when he saw the tractor trailer in front of him veer off the highway, collide into a …
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Carnegie Hero Anthony Diehl died July 13, 2022, attempting to save his 7-year-old nephew from drowning near South Haven, Michigan. Elijah T. Britt was playing in the shallow water of …
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Two Glendale (Wisconsin) police officers entered the dangerously cold Milwaukee River on April 10, 2022, to rescue an unresponsive driver, 46, of an SUV that had entered the river and …
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A 9-year-old boy was trapped Aug. 22, 2022, in a pickup truck submerged in water 9 feet deep in a remote Oakley, Utah, reservoir. Paxton K. Knight was with two …
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An 18-year-old man found himself amid crashing 10-foot waves threatening to pound him into seaside cliffs in San Diego while attempting a Jan. 6, 2021, rescue of a couple who had …
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A Palm Beach police officer intervened in a June 18 suicide attempt in which a 67-year-old, distraught woman was perched on the ledge of a six-story building, about 50 feet …