Zachary Sjosward
Three men fishing on Sept. 13, 2022, in the Atlantic Ocean at a beach in Island Beach State Park in Seaside Park, New Jersey, encountered trouble when a rip current …
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Nicholas L. Bostic
A passerby on July 11, 2022, suffered from smoke inhalation, first- and second-degree burns, and a serious laceration to his arm, after jumping from a second-story window holding a 6-year-old …
Paul Galotti
Sixty-one-year-old David Martinez, who uses a wheelchair, was trapped in his Easthampton, Massachusetts, burning apartment after his bedroom caught fire and blocked his exit. A neighbor, Paul Galotti, 38, environmental …
Terrance A. Dea, deceased
Terrance A. Dea, a 70-year-old retired sales manager of Louisville, drowned June 5, 2021, attempting to rescue an 18-year-old woman who was thrown from her jet ski into the Little …
Derek Winemiller
Derek Winemiller, a 38-year-old union carpenter from Kansas City, Missouri, was left paralyzed from the chest down after intervening in a Feb. 9, 2020, armed robbery at a neighborhood store. …
Mark Anthony Gonzales
On August 22, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas, a 27-year-old police officer was chasing a 44-year-old man when the man tripped and fell. The officer struggled on the street with …
Darby Bicking
While attending a youth horse-riding camp on August 18, 2020, in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, an 8-year-old girl was in a grassy area encircled by chairs when a 95-pound English Mastiff dog …
Robert Z. Fortner
On May 2, 2022, two boys, 7 and 8, were inside their Clarksville, Tennessee home when a fire broke out in the kitchen on the same floor as their bedroom. …
Anthony R. Perry
On June 5, 2022, a man came into contact with an energized railway charged with 600 volts of electricity. Anthony R. Perry, a 20-year-old store associate, was getting off a …
Chad Ammerman
A sailboat carrying John L. McKenna capsized in Little Egg Harbor on June 21, 2021. McKenna, unable to reenter the sailboat, floated in the harbor until he arrived near a …
Lisa Maria Fox
While house-sitting in Mill Bay, British Columbia, on January 26, 2022, Lisa Maria Fox, a 51-year-old self-employed worker, heard a crash outside that sent Kellee M. Brown’s truck into the …
Joseph Diener and Dominic Viet
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. An 18-year-old woman struggled to maintain a hold on the metal support post of a basketball hoop after rapid-flowing water flooded a park in Columbia, Missouri, on June 25, …
Paul W. Bandy, Aimee Johns, and Heath Braddock
A 62-year-old man was swimming in a bay off the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California, on June 22, 2022, when a Great White shark at least …
Christopher B. Arias
On the morning of March 11, 2021, a vehicle driven by a man entered the Sacramento River outside Walnut Grove, California. Driving nearby, Christopher B. Arias, a 39-year-old low voltage …
Ralph Leo Joyce
On a clear and frigid day in Lark Harbour, Newfoundland, John K. Parsons, 68, and Ralph Leo Joyce, 72, former cleaner, of Lark Harbour, were walking along a trail that followed …
Aden Spencer Perry, deceased
Following an accident that caused his car to enter a retention pond, an 18-year-old man called out for help as he struggled in deep water in Sunrise, Florida, on April …
Cody Hartman
A 29-year-old oil company line leader from Advance, Indiana, was driving in Whitestown, Indiana, on December 5, 2020, when he noticed flames issuing from a second-floor bedroom window. Cody Hartman …
Mikala Vish
A 32-year-old preschool teacher was sleeping inside her Gregory, Michigan, apartment with her four children when flames broke out on Oct. 26, 2021. Waking to the sounds of the fire …
Alec Daviau
A 39-year-old university student entered the 42-degree Blanche River multiple times to rescue a 7-year-old girl who was being carried downstream. On May 2, 2021, Emilia I. Fontana fell from …
Raphael Jafri and Jameson Lobb
Working out on a New York pier over the East River, Jameson Lobb and Raphael Jafri responded to shouts of help from a bystander who noticed a 54-year-old man floating …