Three Los Angeles police officers responded to a Jan. 9, 2022, accident in which a plane had crash-landed at an intersection of a railroad track and a four-lane road in …
A 28-year-old laborer died June 13, 2020, while saving his 8-year-old son from drowning in the Trinity River off of Fort Worth, Texas. Saul Ortiz Marquez of Justin, Texas, immediately …
A 26-year-old slot machine attendant from Taftville, Connecticut, was dining July 3, 2019, with his parents and fiancée at a Worcester, Massachusetts, restaurant, when he heard screaming from elsewhere inside …
Twenty-nine-year-old Lucia M. Mendoza struggled in the turbulent spillway water of Wright Patman Lake in Texarkana, Texas, after the car she was in left the road and entered the water …
A 45-year-old man remained in his Pittsburgh home after flames broke out on the second story on Feb. 24, 2022. Local delivery driver, 48-year-old Kenneth S. Andreen was driving nearby …
A Sept. 25, 2020, multi-vehicle highway accident in Lincoln, Nebraska, left Madison R. Daly, 21, in the driver’s seat of a sport utility vehicle that was pinned between a tractor …
Five Massachusetts police officers will receive the Carnegie Medal after helping three teens struggling to stay afloat in Green Hill Pond in Worcester, Massachusetts, on June 4, 2021. Worcester officer …
A March 6, 2021, propane-related explosion left 75-year-old David M. Munce dazed and motionless at the stove inside his Duncan, British Columbia, mobile home. Neighbor Suzanne Fortin, 70, heard the …
A 68-year-old man remained in the driver’s seat of his car after it plunged into Newark Bay near Bayonne, New Jersey, on Nov. 10, 2020. As Joseph M. Kadian screamed …
William Werts, Jr., 56, of New Castle, Delaware, a maintenance worker for a Wilmington, Delaware, apartment complex, rushed to the scene of a Nov. 25, 2020, fire in a second-story …
A 35-year-old woman was swimming on May 26, 2020, in the 50-degree Pacific Ocean off of Seaside, Oregon, with a kickboard when she was pulled away from shore and shouted …
A 64-year-old man fled his home April 21, 2021, after his 26-year-old son stabbed him in the head. Collapsing in his Bolingbrook, Illinois, front yard, the man screamed for help. …
When a 39-year-old, Kitchener, Ontario, man and his 12-year-old daughter struggled on Aug. 27, 2020, in Lake Erie off of Port Colborne, Ontario, Katelynn Saengdala, a 32-year-old manufacturing worker of …
Lewis A. Medina, a 60-year-old construction driver of Aurora, Illinois, was driving in Aurora on the night of Oct. 9, 2021, when he spotted a sports utility vehicle on a …
A father-and-son team sustained injuries after removing an 88-year-old man who had collapsed in his burning Fayetteville, North Carolina, home on April 11, 2021. Russell D. Cox was lying on …
A man harassed Kevin Alkinburg, 24, who was walking on a public street with his female partner, 23, in Washington, District of Columbia, July 31, 2021. The man demanded the …
Steven W. Jenson, 25, remained pinned and severely injured in the driver’s seat of a semi-truck that, in a May 6, 2021, accident with a train in St. Anthony, Idaho, …
Restaurant owner Evangela Stanley, 53, was getting ready to lock her Rochester, New York, restaurant on the night of Dec. 23, 2019, when a 27-year-old gunman rushed into the business. …
From a bicycle trail along a Louisville, Kentucky, road, a 36-year-old woman climbed over a railing and entered the swollen, swift-flowing Ohio River on Jan. 13, 2022. As the woman …
A 72-year-old man was driving a pickup truck on June 21, 2021, when it left a Westmoreland, New York, highway, struck a utility pole, overturned onto its roof, and came …
