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.
On Sunday, 343 firefighters from across Texas donning their heavy coats and gear gathered in downtown Dallas to honor the lives of New York firefighters who died on 9/11. They climbed 100 flights of stairs at Dallas's Renaissance Tower to commemorate the lives of 343 from the New York Fire Department who died saving others on that day.
Tom Porter says he doesn't think he's a hero, but he'll soon have a bronze medal that says he is. The Texas resident was awarded a Carnegie Hero medal for pulling a 1-year-old girl from a burning vehicle. 20 others were honored as heroes this week
Firefighters from Aldinga's Country Fire Service returned exhausted from fighting wild fires in the tough conditions of Adelaide Hills this morning. Sacrificing their lives to help save homes and livestock, these South Australian firefighters, many of them volunteers, arrived back home to find a message posted on the wall, a Thank-You from their fellow citizens.
A whale came to these boaters asking for help. He was grateful enough to pose for pictures afterwards.
A 95-year-old Jewish man saved from the Nazis as a child is now funding the flight of Christians seeking refuge from ISIS, paying forward a ‘debt' he owes.
After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept what park rangers and fellow campers had been telling him: That no 15-year-old house dog with diminished hearing could survive that long without food or water among the coyotes and mid-August heat.
Tornados hit La Plata, Maryland killing three people and ruining 400 homes. The entire town center was destroyed. After the devastation another force came to town: the Amish. A gang of volunteers came.
When an early morning fire broke out at a Mount Carmel, Illinois home, Lucky the pig flew into action, screaming, squealing, and making a fuss.
The folks at Edgar's Mission rescued little Soda Pop and rehabilitated her by helping the lamb learn to walk again using a tote bag.
Lifeboat crews have rescued a Labrador dog that was believed to have drowned off the Norfolk coast in eastern England, after she was swept away on Sunday morning.
A resident spotted a car that had suddenly started rolling downhill towards a busy rush hour street in Bradford, England. She yelled to a gardener who chased down the vehicle and steered it into a lamp post through the open window before it reached a busy road.
An 8-month old kitten snuggled inside a shipping container full of linens in Egypt and survived 17 days without food and water during a 3,000 mile journey.
By early Friday morning, a total of $35 million had already been donated according to the American Red Cross. The public has been generous, a spokesperson said. Agencies have deployed hundreds of troops and tons of supplies, and opened hundreds of shelters.
Smoke in the Melbourne house was so thick that, at first, firefighters thought they had spotted a soft toy. On closer inspection it was revealed that they had found Leo the dog, who had refused to leave the house choosing instead to guard a cardboard box containing 4 new-born kittens.
A Boston area mom who relented to get a puppy after her children begged to bring him home a year ago, is thankful she did after the 15-month-old dog saved her family from a raging house fire.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued six Iranians from sea whose boat had flooded on Tuesday in the Gulf, the second time in less than a week that the American military has come to the aid of Iranians in distress. The earlier rescue involved pirates, with the US Navy boarding a ship to free 13 Iranian fishermen who had been held hostage for weeks by Somalis.
A little boy in China's Guangdong province is lucky to be alive after falling through an opening in a fourth-story window ledge, where he dangled by his neck until a brave neighbor came to his rescue.
Superstar musicians born in the New York/New Jersey area will perform in Rockefeller Center Friday, part of a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy. New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, along with Billy Joel from Long Island are joining Christina Aguilera, Sting and Jimmy Fallon for the show, to be broadcast on NBC at 8pm.
Stars from Hollywood to Virginia are pitching in with money and their time for helping New York and New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. A celebrity auction has even been launched to accept bids on exciting opportunities to rub elbows with the stars.
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