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  • Mysterious Priest Performs Miracle at Site of Mercedes Crash

    08/07/2013 2:53:52 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 52 replies
    Connect TriStates.com ^ | 8/6/13 | Rajah Maples
    CENTER, MO. -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning. Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Mo. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Aaron Smith, 26, crossed the center line and struck Katie Lentz head-on. Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible. New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first...
  • Mysterious priest performs miracle at site of Mercedes crash

    08/07/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 57 replies
    Connect Tristates ^ | August 7, 2013 | Rajah Maples
    CENTER, MO. -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning. Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Mo. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Aaron Smith, 26, crossed the center line and struck Katie Lentz head-on. Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible. New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first...
  • Fighter jet crash leads to harrowing ocean rescue (video)

    08/03/2013 1:03:35 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 19 replies
    http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | August 2, 2013 | Ashley Halsey III
    The night-vision image in the rescue helicopter showed a downed pilot in a life raft bobbing 35 miles from the Atlantic shoreline, but when Brian Fogle got ready to plunge down to him, the midnight sky and sea melded into inky blackness. “The hard part was not being able to see anything,” Fogle said. And then he stepped out that door and slid down a line into the rolling dark ocean. The signal had come to the Coast Guard 20 to 30 minutes before 11 p.m. Thursday: A D.C. Air National Guard F-16C was down in the Atlantic after touching...
  • 31 dead on doomed voyage to Italy

    07/28/2013 7:19:24 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 20 replies
    The Local (Italy) ^ | July 28, 2013
    Thirty-one migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during an attempted crossing to Italy on a dinghy according to survivors who managed to complete the journey. A dinghy carrying 53 migrants capsized on Friday evening, and witnesses said 31 of those who had been thrown off it drowned in the accident. The twenty-two survivors, who come from Nigeria, Gambia, Benin and Senegal, said the dinghy had capsized after three days at sea. They were rescued by a passing merchant ship and taken to Lampedusa island, the reports said.
  • NYPD cop guarding Gracie Mansion, firefighters rescue woman from East River

    07/28/2013 8:23:19 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 4 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | July 27, 2013 | Joseph Stepansky AND Alfred Ng
    A cop guarding Gracie Mansion and firefighters teamed up to save a woman who fell into the East River early Saturday while trying to retrieve a dropped cellphone, sources said. A bystander flagged down a nearby officer after seeing the unidentified woman splash into the water on the upper East Side about 5:40 a.m., authorities said.
  • 10-year-old Girl Catches 1-Month-Old Baby Dropped from Burning Apartment

    07/26/2013 5:52:08 PM PDT · by Jeff Winston · 20 replies
    WSB TV ^ | July 25, 2013 | Wendy Corona
    A woman in a wheelchair and a 10-year-old were the unlikely heroes at a Decatur apartment fire Thursday. A mother's desperate action to save her babies turned neighbors into rescuers. "I caught the newborn baby from falling. Before it had hit the ground I caught it," said Zna Gresham, 10. Gresham said she just did what was asked after she ran out of her burning apartment to safety outside. "Then when I was getting out, the lady from upstairs, she was dropping her babies and she asked me and my sister can she get the babies for her," Zna told...
  • Multiple Swimmers Rescued Off Chappaquiddick

    07/24/2013 7:14:52 PM PDT · by WilliamIII · 27 replies
    Vineyard Gazette ^ | July 24 2013 | Sara Brown
    Between 11 and 13 people were rescued from the water off Wasque Point Wednesday afternoon, police said.
  • 2 Maine hikers rescued but drive to ocean deaths

    ROQUE BLUFFS, Maine (AP) — A pregnant Maine woman and her friend visiting from Pennsylvania got lost hiking and were rescued but died later that evening, authorities said, when they accidentally drove their car into the ocean in the nighttime fog.
  • George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

    07/22/2013 6:38:35 PM PDT · by marktwain · 57 replies
    abcnews.go.com ^ | 22 July, 2013 | MATT GUTMAN and ALEXIS SHAW
    George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today. Zimmerman was one of two men who came to the aid of Dana and Mark Gerstle and their two children, who were trapped inside a blue Ford Explorer SUV that had rolled over after traveling off the highway in Sanford, Fla. at approximately 5:45 p.m. Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route...
  • George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

    07/22/2013 9:49:57 AM PDT · by Uncle Chip · 230 replies
    ABC News ^ | July 22, 2013 | Matt Gutman and Alexis Shaw
    George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today. Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman "pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over" at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said. The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said. It's the first known sighting of Zimmerman since he left the courtroom following...
  • George Zimmerman helped rescue family from overturned SUV, cops say

    07/22/2013 12:27:20 PM PDT · by sheikdetailfeather · 52 replies
    The Orlando Sentinel ^ | 7/22/2013 | Jeff Weiner
    George Zimmerman, the man recently acquitted in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, helped rescue a family from an overturned SUV last week, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office confirmed today. According to sheriff's spokeswoman Heather Smith, deputies were called to the crash about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday. A Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle had gone off the road and rolled over in the area of Interstate 4 and State Road 46, Smith said, with two children and their parents inside. By the time a deputy arrived, Zimmerman and another man "had already helped assist the family by getting them out...
  • Teen saves 5-year-old from abduction

    07/15/2013 10:22:37 AM PDT · by Hojczyk · 12 replies
    Hot Air ^ | July 15,2013 | ED MORRISSEY
    Boggs, a McCaskey freshman who lives in Gable Park Woods, had been hanging out with a friend at nearby Lancaster Arms apartments and helping move a couch when a man came by asking if they'd seen a missing girl. They hadn't, Boggs said, so they went to watch TV. A short time later, his friend went outside and saw lots of police officers and people from the neighborhood looking for the girl. Police said that the girl had been taken that afternoon from the 100 block of Jennings Drive. Boggs and about six friends joined the search. That’s when, Boggs...
  • Family, Including 70-Year-Old Father, Cling to Capsized Boat (Brother swims 5 hours to get help)

    07/11/2013 7:34:02 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 40 replies
    http://abcnews.go.com ^ | july 11, 2013 | GEETIKA RUDRA
    A mother fought to keep her family alive as they clung to their capsized boat in cold water infested with jelly fish while her brother swam for five hours to get help. Contessa L. Riggs, 43, of Washington D.C., was fishing off the coast of Deal Island, Md., on Tuesday with her brother, John Franklin Riggs, her 70-year old father, 9-year-old niece and 3-year-old son, when a thunder storm struck. "It was sundown. The water suddenly became very choppy and a wave crashed into the boat, filling the boat with water," Riggs told ABC News. -snip Riggs knew that nobody...
  • BREAKING Knife Story: Asiana Passengers Almost Burned To Death Waiting For Box Cutters

    07/10/2013 7:53:21 AM PDT · by george76 · 40 replies
    The Truth About Knives ^ | July 8, 2013 | Chris Dumm
    Reports indicate that passengers aboard crashed Asiana Flight 214 were trapped by their seatbelts while the Boeing 777 burned around them. If only someone had a knife to cut them free, even a small pocketknife… But nobody had any kind of knife, because knives aren’t allowed on flights that land or originate in the United States. So what happened? ... police officers on the ground threw utility knives up to crew members so they could cut the seat belts of those who remained trapped as rescue crews removed the injured. You read that correctly: passengers were trapped in the burning...
  • Coroner: Officials probing if rescuers ran over San Francisco plane crash victim

    07/08/2013 5:31:39 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 3 replies
    AP, via CBS News ^ | July 7, 2013 | AP, via CBS News
    A San Francisco-area coroner whose office received the bodies of two teenage victims of the Asiana plane crash says officials are conducting an autopsy to determine if one of the girls was run over and killed by a rescue vehicle. San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault says Sunday that senior San Francisco Fire Department officials notified him and his staff at the crash site on Saturday that one of the 16-year-olds may have been struck on the runaway. (snip) Chinese state media reported Sunday that the two fatalities in Saturday afternoon's plane crash at the San Francisco International Airport were...
  • Kitten Trapped in a Sacramento Storm Drain Is Rescued (needs a home)

    06/30/2013 8:00:19 PM PDT · by Innovative · 33 replies
    ABC News ^ | Jun 28, 2013 | Stephanie Mendez
    After spending four days trapped in a storm drain at a remote Sacramento intersection, a calico kitten was rescued thanks to a few teenagers who responded to its frantic and frightened meows. The teenagers tried to pull the kitten out using a rope and when that failed, the teenagers called the fire department. But after the kitten was safe, no one offered to take the animal home, according to Filbrun. So Marquis and the KXTV team decided to care for the kitten. The station is trying to find the original owner before they proceed to find her a home.
  • Joe Torre’s Daughter Catches Falling Baby Boy In Brooklyn

    06/21/2013 1:36:23 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    CBS New York ^ | 19Jeun , 3201
    Baby's Parents Arrested After He Climbed Out A Window As They SleptThe daughter of legendary former Yankees manager Joe Torre was being hailed as a hero Wednesday, after she caught a 16-month-old baby that had fallen from an awning in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. As CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez reported, everyone in the neighborhood was talking about how the baby was dangling from the awning of the Sweetie Frozen Yogurt shop at 9104 Third Ave. in Brooklyn, when Cristina Torre, 44, came to the rescue. She happened to be walking along Third Avenue near 91st Street around 10 a.m. Wednesday when...
  • Friends raise money for Ga. dad who broke neck trying to save 4-year-old from drowning

    06/12/2013 6:24:06 PM PDT · by Brad from Tennessee · 12 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | June 12, 2013 | By Philp Caulfield
    Family and friends in northwest Georgia are rallying to raise funds for a young father who was left paralyzed after he dove into a creek to save a 4-year-old girl from drowning. Michael Patterson, 43, broke his neck in three places Saturday after he dove headfirst into a shallow creek in Rockmart to try to save toddler Javea Jones, who had fallen in. Javea's mother, Carlissa Jones, told WSBTV that her daughter was being swept downstream with her head underwater when Patterson, who was with his 9-year-old son, Cole, went in after her. "He jumped in head first, and after...
  • Holy Angel rescues man from Mississippi River

    06/06/2013 10:25:04 AM PDT · by netguide · 1 replies
    Crew members of the tugboat Holy Angel are being called heroes after rescuing a 22-year old Cape Girardeau man from the Mississippi River, south of Cape Girardeau. The rescue took place at about 7 a.m. Thursday.
  • In Benghazi - U.S. Military: We Could Have Saved Ambassador Stevens

    05/25/2013 4:26:22 AM PDT · by Moseley · 65 replies
    The AMERICAN THINKER ^ | May 25, 2013 | Jonathon Moseley
    Elite U.S. troops were completely capable of saving Ambassador Chris Stevens during the Benghazi Consulate attacks on September 11, 2012. Elements of the highly specialized Combatant Commanders In-Extremis (CIF) units are always on alert, on forward deployment, ready to respond. Their job description is to hit the ground in 3 to 5 hours. CIF elements are ready to engage in active combat anywhere in their region, 3 to 5 hours after the call. Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense at the time, either misled the U.S. Congress or was incompetent. Panetta testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 7,...