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A suicidal woman in her early 60s had climbed a 10-foot safety fence on the Baldwin Bridge in Old Lyme, Connecticut, on Nov. 27, 2023, and sat on a 9-inch-wide …

On May 20, 2023, a 76-year-old woman pulled into a Comox, British Columbia, gas station and struck a gas pump. Flames erupted at the front end of the car. Inside …

A group of four college students were hiking a mountain in a remote area of the Shoshone National Forest in Cody, Wyoming, on Oct. 15, 2022. Almost immediately after friends …

Holli J. Robertson, 20, was swimming with friends on Aug. 19, 2023, in the Broad River in Fundy National Park near Alma, New Brunswick, when she lost her footing and …

“This could be a one-way trip,” one eyewitness told rescuer Robert J. Selfridge III, 58, of Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, before he dove into the Barnegat Inlet on Aug. 7, …

A 39-year-old BASE jumper hung by his parachute 70 feet above the ground on Nov. 26, 2022 in Moab, Utah. He had jumped from the top of the 400-foot cliff, …

After hearing screams at an April 21, 2021, private service in the chapel of an Eldon, Missouri, funeral home, funeral director Jeffrey A. Hilke, 47, of Jefferson City, responded. He …

Martha Gonzalez, 58, was wading in the Long Island Sound off of Norwalk, Connecticut, on July 31, 2022, when she lost her footing and struggled to swim amid a strong …

On June 23, 2023, 36-year-old Joshua Unglesby, who is paralyzed from the waist down, was asleep in the rear bedroom of his one-story home in Springboro, Ohio, when a fire …

Joseph Radtke, 80, had gone fishing with his dog on July 17, 2023, in Vail, Colorado. As he tried to cross Gore Creek at a shallow point his dog pulled …

On March 26, 2023, in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Carson Furness, 6, and his 10-year-old brother were caught in a fast moving current while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. Anchored …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Despite being instructed by a 911 operator to stay outside his next-door neighbor’s burning bungalow on March 2, 2023, Alan H. Mackie, a 63-year-old mechanic from Grand Valley, Ontario, knew …