In Queensland, a father of 2 is alive to see his daughters again thanks to a horde of Good Samaritans who rushed to his side after he was pinned under a car during a collision. Lifting with “all their might,” the bystanders managed to hoist the wheel and get the man out from underneath its […]
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A 12-year-old was labeled a hero after saving her friend from drowning with nothing more than a fistful of her hair to hang onto. The harrowing close call with Davy Jones comes to us now from Conwy, Wales, where Tamika and her friend Sofia-Ann were swimming off Pensarn beach during a late-May heat wave. The […]
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In a story that will make your beak drop, a Canadian woman has received a series of ‘thank you’ presents from a whole murder of crows after she took the time to rescue one from a gutter. As Leah Wilson walks down the street, the superstitious among the neighbors might draw their blinds. Her steps […]
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A tour boat joined the search for a dog that had floated three miles out to sea in a kayak. After two hours of searching, they spotted the inflatable boat on the horizon but couldn’t see if the pooch was still aboard. As tension mounted, they young men captured the moment on video when they […]
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After a serious crash on a rural, British Columbia highway, a woman and her husband had to search for days to find their missing dog Daisy. Along the way, they experienced just about every kind of help imaginable until 96 hours after their crash, they were reunited with their Australian shepherd. Dearah Jordan and her […]
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When a Wisconsin state trooper arrived to help a motorist who had stopped on a ramp up to I-90, he never could have imagined how his life was about to change. Trooper Brody Schmitz arrived at the driver’s side window, and heard a disturbing story. “The motorist informed him that she had witnessed someone throw […]
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A wild rescue story with a mystery comes from Stoke-on-Trent, where a pony was found entirely trapped inside a tractor tire. Neither residents nor rescuers had any clue or idea as to what had gone on which saw the pony jailed by the derelict tire, but no one waited around to find out. Residents immediately […]
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From a New Zealand outlet comes the story of a man who saved a dog from the pound, and the dog who saved him from perishing in a house fire. Even though her new forever home has turned to ashes, Hazel the dog managed to save the only thing that really mattered: a life. With […]
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A great horned owl found covered in concrete has flown to freedom after six months of care at a Utah sanctuary. A good Samaritan found him in a concrete mixer in October and called the Best Friends Animal Society headquarters 80 miles away in Kanab. After removing the concrete, the team at the nonprofit’s wildlife […]
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Rescuers raced to save a stranded penguin after a jogger spotted it and called for help. Two weeks ago, wildlife veterinarian Catherine Hauw was alerted that there was an African penguin lying helplessly on a beach with its head buried in the sand. The 35-year-old medic rushed to the scene at Brenton-on-Sea in South Africa […]
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A dog’s carefree day, bounding over the moors in North Yorkshire, led to a six-hour scramble by dedicated rescuers determined to save her. The Staffordshire bull terrier fell into a narrow crevice last week and became trapped 21 feet underground. Her frantic owner called emergency services who sent the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team […]
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When rescuers found a 2-week-old otter pup alone on Asilomar state beach on the central coast of California, they knew exactly what to do. They took the pup, named Sunny, to the Aquarium of the Pacific, where lived a maternal-aged otter named Rey—who was also found orphaned alone on a beach as a juvenile. It’s […]
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A high school women’s group rescued a hiker with a broken leg having trained for that exact situation. It started when the students from the Armidale’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College (PLC) arrived at Warrumbungle National Park for a 4-day hike. On day 3, they came across Thomas Wendland, a hiker who had broken his leg. Startled […]
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Some rescue dog transformations are so profound that they restore your faith in second chances. Dobby’s journey from squalor to a new family home is one of those stories. Found trembling in appalling conditions, the resilient pup now spends her days playing and soaking up love alongside a new best friend. When Humane World for […]
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For a Saskatchewan tow truck driver with work still to be done last Saturday, it was immediately clear what took priority. The frozen moose trapped in the ice of a lake came first, and Clint Gottinger, owner of Rebel Towing, told his clients like it was. “After they heard I was digging a moose out […]
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An experienced rancher and his 2 neighbors recently conducted a harrowing rescue of 15 horses from chest-high floodwaters in the dead of night. When a stronger than usual Hawaiian wet season dumped disaster-level rains on Oahu’s normally-tranquil north shore, Tyler Smith was first on the scene. But it was a scene of disaster, and after […]
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5 Mississippi middle school students leapt into action when their bus driver lost consciousness while driving, and are being hailed as heroes. Driver Leah Taylor from Hancock County School District was on her usual route with a busload of students on board when she suffered a serious asthma attack and lost consciousness. Not one, not […]
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Jessica Johnston was lucky to have survived after plummeting from the top of a 180-foot waterfall while hiking in the mountains. But when she lost her footing—she also lost her dog. They were enjoying one of the world’s richest landscapes, New Zealand’s South Island—with its rainforests, glaciers, fjords, and crystal-clear lakes. Every day was a […]
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A woman was dubbed a heroine after she rescued an injured seagull that had been stuck in fishing line for more than five hours near the Irish Sea. Dramatic photos show Lorraine Bullar swimming out 50 feet in frigid Stanley Park Lake in Blackpool, Lancashire, to save the injured gull whose leg was trapped in […]
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Rescuers in Australia were able to save a humpback whale after becoming stranded on a sandbar during its migration. The 10-ton marine giant was freed and guided back into the ocean off Forster, New South Wales, after becoming trapped in shallow waters in a n urgent and complex rescue operation. Humpback whales typically migrate along […]
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From central England comes the feel good story of a tiny pony rescued from disease whose winning and warming hearts of visitors at the rescue center where he was nursed back to health. Last March, Pickle the 9-month-old Shetland Pony was found critically ill after the nonprofit World Horse Welfare responded to an animal welfare […]
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A teenage Texan has earned a commendation given fewer than 300 times in the history of the Boy Scouts after saving his scout leader from drowning in rapids. Devon Champenoy was one of several teen scouts from Houston rafting down class 3 rapids at a summer camp in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Scout leader David […]
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CCTV surveillance footage captured the dramatic scene as a mother and young daughter were rescued after they became stuck waist-deep in wet sand—just meters away from each other. A young girl was playing in the sand at 5:20 pm, near the Three Shells Lagoon, in Essex, England before she suddenly sinks knee-deep and becomes stuck. […]
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A wife used her “Find My iPhone” feature to guide search and rescue to the location of her husband who had been buried in an avalanche. Michael Harris was skiing the Big Chief Bowl at Stevens Pass Ski Resort in late February when the snowpack suddenly gave way beneath him. He was caught in an […]
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A group of snowmobilers in New Hampshire saved a young moose doe who needed a helping hoof. Returning home for lunch after a morning zipping over the drifts 4 to 5 feet deep, Mike Dion told WMUR news that he and his friends came across an unexpected sight: a moose buried up to its neck […]
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Steven Maa was worried his beloved dog wouldn’t survive the night in the Rocky Mountains. He was driving cross-country to California from New Jersey to start a new job on the West Coast when he stopped for some skiing in Montezuma, Colorado on Dec. 28. He left his dog Rocky with a local pet sitter, […]
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A snow plow driver was crawling through near-white out conditions on Long Island when he saw something strange. Kenny McGowan has had to stop his snow plow in the past for all manner of hidden obstacles and hazards, from buried cars to fallen branches. Instead, two slight figures were running along the asphalt/ice/snow/salt poutine that […]
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From Chicago comes the story of a pair of heroes rescuing an infant that had been blown into Lake Michigan. 30-year-old Lio Cundiff was on the phone with his aunt at Belmont Harbor when he felt the wind pick up fiercely, followed by a bloodcurdling scream from a woman close by. Cundiff knew exactly what […]
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In what was noted to be a bit of a reversal of traditional roles, a dog was rescued by mountaineers after spending a frigid night in a hollow below a mountaintop. Five dogs and four hikers were approaching the summit of Fionn Bheinn in the Scottish Highlands near Achnasheen recently, when their dogs fell through […]
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A Good Samaritan said he thanked the Good Lord that he was close at hand when a mother, driving with her kids, suffered a seizure and hurtled off the road into a canal. What started as a calm Sunday drive turned into anything but when a glance into his review mirror left Casey Curtis shocked: […]
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