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Tag: archives

2013: Canadian man saves woman from polar bear with shovel

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Griffin Erdely

During a cold night on Nov. 1, 2013, 30-year-old Erin A. Greene from Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, was walking in a neighborhood with two friends to their temporary residence in Churchill, Manitoba, …

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2001: Young firefighter protects campers in fire storm

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Griffin Erdely

Bruce and Paula Hagemeyer were hiking through the Chewuch River Canyon near Winthrop, Washington, on the afternoon of July 10, 2001, looking for a place to set up camp, when …

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’63: Five men pull driver out of burning race car

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Griffin Erdely

On Valentine’s Day, 62 years ago, Marvin E. Panch, 36, a stock car racing driver, was slated to make a practice run at the speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, in …

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Archives: Two men subdue machete-wielding assailant

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

On June 3, 1991, in Racine, Wisconsin, a mother was crossing the street at a crosswalk with her two daughters, when they were hit by a truck driven by a …

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2015 shark attack strengthens the call of the sea for victim and rescuer

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Colin W. Cook, 25, was surfing in waters off of Haleiwa, Hawaii, on Oct. 9, 2015. As described in an article by MidWeek, Cook had moved to O’ahu four years …

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1967: Two teens save man from attacking bear in remote Idaho forest

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Byrle G. Walker, a 34-year-old teacher from Idaho Falls, Idaho, was working part-time for the U.S. Forest Service, when he set out to inspect trees and do insect control work …

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New England priest devotes life to helping those in crisis situations

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

On the morning of March 27, 1966, 7-year-old Catherine L. Waters and her 11-year-old sister Janet were getting ready to go to morning mass in a neighborhood of Providence, Rhode …

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From the Archives: Father of 3 returns for fellow miner despite impending blasts

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Griffin Erdely

It was 1973. Peter S. Norman, a 42-year-old miner from New Denver, British Columbia, was working 0.9 miles underground, deep in a Silmonac mine. There in a tunnel, about 8 …

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From the Archives: 1994 – Modest farmhand saves Quebec farmer from attacking bull

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Griffin Erdely

Warren Deacon, a 47-year-old beef farmer from Waterville, Quebec, had begun Nov. 25, 1994, like any other, as he took responsibility for rounding up the cattle on his farm. Located …

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From the Archives: 17-year-old disarms high school shooter in Oregon

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Griffin Erdely

Before classes began at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998, between 100 and 200 students were milling about in the cafeteria, including 17-year-old student Jacob Russell …

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From the Archives: Heroes risk falling to their deaths in cliffside rescue

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

On Feb. 25, 1963, off the coast of Grand Manan Island in Canada’s New Brunswick province, Floyd D. Jones and his brother were fishing in a 15-foot motorboat when the …

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From the Archives: 50 years ago ambulance workers save steel workers from second, third explosions

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Jewels Phraner

Brown’s Island is a 2-mile-long island nestled in the waters of the Ohio River. Surrounded by the rolling hills of Weirton, West Virginia, this little crop of land was home …

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From the archives: Female flight instructor responds to 1958 ’copter crash

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Jewels Phraner

In the early afternoon of Monday, April 28, 1958, 34-year-old John J. Ryan and his Powell Valley Electric Cooperative colleague, 49-year-old Davis L. McNiel, left Jonesville, Virginia, in a Bell …

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From the Archives: 40th Anniversary of the Rescue on the Potomac

Rescue on the Potomac

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Jewels Phraner

On January 13, 1982, cold temperatures and snow plagued the Washington, D.C., area so much so that, by the afternoon, businesses and schools had closed for the day. The great …

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From the Archives: Nurse saves father and son from 1913 hospital fire

Nurse Lillian M. Coburn

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Jewels Phraner

On the cool morning of Sept. 7, 1913, at California’s Susanville Hospital, a father and son were residing in adjacent rooms. William D. Minckler, Sr., a 62-year-old civil engineer, was …

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From the Archives: Rescue inside the water box

water box

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Jewels Phraner

On the morning of Friday, October 19, 1984, 50-year-old Lloyd Hansen, senior control operator from Watsonville, California, was working at an inoperative surface condensing unit at a Pacific Gas and …

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From the Archives: Circle-K clerk saves toddler in runaway truck

Billie Jean Power

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Jewels Phraner

On the warm evening of May 19, 1967, 23-year-old mother Toni Diffie fastened her 3-year-old daughter Ginger Lee into a canvas car seat that hung from the backrest of the …

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From the Archives: Explosion in the Nuclear Reactor Room

Explosion nuclear reactor

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Jewels Phraner

On Jan. 3, 1961, representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Combustion Engineering Company were notified of an emergency at the National Reactor Testing Station located 8 miles north …

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From the Archives: 16-year-old girl saves elderly neighbor in 1965 Ontario building blaze

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

In the early morning of an overcast Nov. 9, 1965, B. Bedelia Faeder, 73, was asleep in her third-floor apartment on King Street in Brockville, Ontario. The stone and brick …

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From the Archives: Hiking trip gone awry — 1965 rappelling rescue takes hours

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

On the evening of July 7, 1965, 18-year-old Clayton E. Toensing was descending the steep face of a 430-foot cliff with two younger teenagers, when he lost his footing, fell …

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