Tag: emergencies and accidents

A man found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time on Thursday when he decided to cross a waterfall between Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. When he first started ...

A family in Orange County, Florida, nearly lost everything early Saturday morning when a fire broke out in their apartment complex, but thanks to a brave local deputy, they escaped ...

Occupational hazards vary from job to job, but those in construction face rather major physical threats as a part of their daily work. There are plenty of protective measures that ...

A San Jose family was desperate to locate their little boy after he was kidnapped on Monday while his grandmother was unloading groceries. In what police are calling a "planned" ...

When a couple in Crosby, Texas, suddenly heard a chorus of whining and crying near where they keep their cattle on Saturday morning, they went to investigate. What they found ...

Kayaker Darren Bade had just finished up a session at the Cuyahoga River near Main Street Bridge in Kent, Ohio, when he heard screaming. It was around 6:56 p.m. on ...

A family in Pico Rivera, California, was involved in a horrible attack from their own dogs on Sunday night. It was around 10:30 p.m. when 1-year-old Ruby Cervantes, who was ...

An Indianapolis man in his 70s accidentally started a disaster that displaced over 20 people and very nearly claimed the life of several others. The man, who lived in an ...

It's not every day that your kid will end up saving your life by refusing to go to school, but that's precisely what happened for one family in Eliot, Maine. ...

The Atlanta Humane Society, Hancock Animal Friends and the ASPCA headed out to a property outside of Milledgeville, Georgia, on Saturday to remove dozens of dogs that were in terrible ...

Dogs can find themselves in some pretty precarious situations, thanks to their curiosity and agility, but one person recently found a dog in a situation that would have been difficult ...

A community in Sunrise, Florida, is in mourning after losing two young men on Tuesday night. Officials had not yet revealed the names of the two teens, but classmates identified ...

If you have a cellphone, you've probably misplaced it before. They end up in the strangest places sometimes -- falling out of pockets, getting left on top of cars or ...

Mr. Hanley is distinguished, an older dog coming in at an impressive 16 years of age. His eyesight was going, but that didn't doom him earlier this week. On Tuesday, ...

Early Tuesday morning, a woman in North Austin, Texas, was startled by the sound of shouting coming from a nearby apartment complex. A quick peek outside revealed the cause: The ...

Aleta Cyvertsen from River Bend, North Carolina, was being a good Samaritan on April 12, mowing her elderly neighbor's yard -- but that decision nearly cost her her life. Cyvertsen, ...

On Monday, a 65-year-old woman in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was going out to get her mail when a pack of three loose dogs spotted her and closed in. Mabel Lackey yelled ...

April 15 was almost the last ride two people in Dartmouth, Mass., took after their car plunged into a lake that night. It was around 10:40 p.m. when the 2016 ...

When a family was driving along Route 9 in Nelson, New Hampshire, over the Easter weekend, they were looking forward to seeing family in New Jersey and Maryland. They had ...

Even the most experienced adventurers can face disaster in nature -- and the more experienced they are, often the more brushes with death they've had. For avid outdoorsman Michael LaChance ...