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Rescues, medical saves, and kindness from firefighters, police officers, EMTs, paramedics, 911 dispatchers, and search-and-rescue teams. Each story is checked and linked to the original report.
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HeroesAfter a fire on the research vessel Rem Andes about 100 nautical miles south of Grand Isle, a Coast Guard plane caught the mayday and nearby supply boats carried every crew member from the life rafts to Port Fourchon.
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HeroesOfficer Carston Addison, on the force less than a year, dropped his gear and swam out to bring a 12-year-old boy to shore. Chief Mario Knapp gave him a special life-saving award.
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HeroesBodycam shows officers running up to an Astoria apartment and giving CPR to a baby boy who had stopped breathing until he breathed again. He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell in stable condition.
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HeroesAfter scammers took a DoorDash driver's paycheck the day before his daughter turned 2, Officers Alessandro Figuccio and Tanner Schnieder bought clothes, toys, and a pink bike and brought them back.
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HeroesJenks West Elementary nurse Chelsea Franklin held pressure on Dennis Adams's wound after he fainted outside the stadium, and stayed until paramedics arrived.
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HeroesMartin County employee Amy Offenbach and a friend paddled out at an unguarded beach in Jensen Beach and brought all three girls to shore.
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HeroesA gardener working in the yard saw the flames and rang the doorbell with a neighbor. The woman got out with her two dogs, and he held the fire back with a garden hose until firefighters arrived. No one was hurt.
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HeroesSgt. Alex Wood crawled through a burning trailer near Roanoke Rapids, found the resident, and pulled him out. The man is stable.
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AnimalsSummit County-based C-RAD, which trains canine avalanche teams across the West, received the ASPCA's 2026 Henry Bergh Award in New York.
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CommunityA nearly $1 million live-training facility in Greenville, backed by a $750,000 state grant, gives local crews heat-and-smoke practice without the drive to Springfield, Lima, or Dayton.
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AnimalsRescue dog Mayzie has made more than 230 visits to first responders in Northern California and Nevada, comforting more than 3,000 people. Voting runs through Oct. 19.
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HeroesOfficers Joseph Murphy and Yevgeny Shipley, with people who stopped to help, lifted a car off a man who had been dragged underneath it.
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HeroesCarter Hicks told adults that a camper trailer was smoking, and the Blooming Grove Volunteer Fire Department later gave him a patch and a certificate.
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AnimalsOn Sept. 15, Kristian Roch and Timothy Guillotte found a kitten in a trash bag behind Station 2. Guillotte's family took it to their farm in Rochester and named it Meeko.
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HeroesThe First Responders Day Group gave $5,000 to the Texarkana College Foundation, and EMT student Hesley Rocha is the first recipient.
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HeroesTyce Gardner was hit in the chest by a ball and went into cardiac arrest. Coach Gene Richins started compressions at once, and doctors expect Tyce to fully recover.
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HeroesWhen John White collapsed from a heart attack at home, his 16-year-old son Noah called 911 and started CPR.
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HeroesJerami Segura and April Comeaux were found alive on a platform in Lake Sand after a fisherman radioed the Coast Guard and nearby deputies responded.
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HeroesIn August her car went into a flooded retention pond on North Prospect Avenue. Three residents received Community Lifesaving Awards. Four officers received the chief's challenge coin, not those awards.
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HeroesThe all-volunteer squad in Dante, Virginia, will offset training and response costs without charging patients for ambulance care.
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HeroesGarrett Christie and Cade Lewis were headed to Sonic when they came upon a crash. They pried open a damaged door and helped the girl to safety.
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