Retired grandparents Jeanne and Burt Metz lost their home when Superstorm Sandy hit Breezy Point, New York. A volunteer organization told the couple that their floors and walls would be rebuilt – but little did the Metz family know that hundreds of people were working to resurrect their entire house.
Volunteers around the world are sewing and sending mittens to help koalas that suffered burns on their paws while trying to escape the catastrophic bush fires in South Australia and Victoria.
Nissan is back, one year after an earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan ground auto production to a halt, left giant cracks at a key factory and killed five employees and 17 family members. It's a story of surprising recovery that's playing out at other Japanese automakers, but particularly at Nissan.
A powerful tornado ripped through West Liberty, Kentucky last week, making the quaint community look like a war zone. Fortunately, the First Response Team of America was there to help with its specialized fleet of heavy-duty disaster recovery equipment. (Watch the video from CNN Heroes)
Qantaslink called the mayor of Moree asking if there was anything they could do to help locals who were suffering from the worst floods to devastate the region in 36 years. "Unless you can get a plane in here loaded with fresh fruit, bread and milk for our kids, there's not much else you can do to help," she said. They rang back three hours later, promising to have a plane on the tarmac by the end of the day.
A Japanese music foundation has sold a renowned Stradivarius violin for $16 million at auction to raise money for tsunami disaster relief. The nonprofit Nippon Foundation owned the 1721 violin, which was rarely played, and decided it could be put to better use: The needs of our fellow Japanese people after the March 11 tragedy have proven that we all need to help, in any way we can.
For his herculean efforts to reopen schools buildings after five were destroyed by a May 22 tornado, Superintendent C.J. Huff has been honored as one of the top 2011 Heroes Among Us by People magazine.
Scholastic has donated one million books to schools and libraries that applied for help after Hurricane Sandy. 400,000 have already been delivered. Said one teacher, It's like Christmas morning for teachers.
One year ago after a deadly tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., among 161 humans killed, countless pets also lost their lives or became homeless.Since then, the ASPCA found forever homes for 745 pets and about 500 families were able to reunite with their lost pets. This week, the last unclaimed pet from the Missouri storm was claimed.
An Indonesian couple that were last month reunited with their 14-year-old daughter who went missing in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit the northernmost province of Aceh have in recent days also found their missing son.
There's reducing, reusing, recycling—and then, there's an architect who transforms cardboard tubes into miracle building materials.
A family of five lost everything in their Oklahoma home in a fire Tuesday but they survived and escaped with just minutes to spare thanks to an old pit bull named Baby. The dog would not stop barking and pouncing until the woman woke up to see the danger getting closer. Not only did Baby save the family, she went back into the house to gather up the other five dogs still inside, dragging them out one by one.
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The Coast Guard rescued 14 people adrift in life rafts in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 90 miles off the coast of Hatteras, N.C. on Monday morning, following the sinking of their ship in 40 mile-per-hour winds. The heroic Coast Guard effort involved helicopters, baskets and swimmers in the midst of some 18-ft swells.
One of the most inspiring examples of neighbors helping neighbors around the New York City area in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is the emergence of ad hoc charging stations for people without power who need to charge their cell phones.
An elderly woman being interviewed by a television crew was literally counting her blessings after her beloved schnauzer peaked out from beneath the rubble in Moore, OK and was spotted by a producer. "Bless your little bitty heart!" cooed Barbara Garcia, who stooped down surrounded by the debris of her flattened neighborhood.
Onlookers cheered rescuers as they pulled a 101-year-old man from beneath the ruins of his house where he was buried for a week after the Nepal earthquake.
A group of New York firefighters have always credited bookkeeper Josephine Harris with saving their lives after the World Trade Center attack. Nine years later they would return the favor, as a final salute.
A man was incredibly lucky to be alive after his car flipped into a river near the Idaho-Washington border. The 20 year-old squeezed through the rear seats and into the trunk of his two-door Hyundai Tiburon as chill, fast-flowing waters engulfed all but 6 inches of head room, creating a life-saving air pocket.
These medical folks worked around the clock to treat animals from cats to kangaroos injured in a fast moving Australian wildfire.
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