firefighters

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 ...

When six kids in Wayne, New Jersey, headed for a trampoline park on Friday night, they were looking forward to a fun evening. Instead, the elevator they were using broke ...

Not everyone has a platform from which to help millions of people or funds to help end world hunger -- but everyone has the capacity to make the world a ...

When firefighters in Sacramento, California, showed up to a blaze last week, they walked away from the scene with one more in their crew than they arrived with. A fire ...

It can be difficult to know how to commemorate a good father, how to come up with the perfect gift that acknowledges not only all the hard work they've put ...

There are plenty of ways to help make your home a more secure place: You can install doorbell cameras, make sure to keep doors and windows locked and even have ...

On April 4, a mother dog and several of her puppies nearly died when a house fire broke out in Glendale, Arizona, and no one was home. Thankfully for the ...

When a mother dog and her babies were spotted hiding out in a storm drain in Dimmit County, Texas, it wasn't long before someone called the fire department for assistance. ...

Daniel Perez has done much for his country during his lifetime. Serving in the Army for nearly three decades, the Floridian did combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and now ...

Thursday morning, a Georgia dog found itself in a rather sticky predicament. It had managed to crawl into a storm drain that was actively channeling water and full of mud, ...

People who work in and around grain bins have to be very careful as the conditions always pose risks -- risks for which many local first responders receive regular training ...

Many daring rescues that are pulled off are just as miraculous for the rescuer as they are for the rescuee. Plenty of good Samaritans put themselves in danger without the ...

Having property stolen is infuriating and wrong, no matter what the circumstances, but some cases hit even harder when the victims are generally considered selfless local heroes. Fire departments in ...

It's not every day that first responders get a call to help out a horse in a tricky situation, but on Saturday, that's exactly what happened for local departments on ...

There's never a good time for a house fire, but waking up to one taking over your home certainly can put you at a disadvantage and require you to react ...

When a man got stuck in a storm drain in Antioch, California, on Sunday, he really got stuck, necessitating a major rescue operation. The man -- who has not been ...

Monday afternoon was almost the last Monday afternoon one teen from Oahu ever got to experience after entering a tide pool closed for the winter and getting stranded on the ...

If you're the kind of person who has a heart for God's creatures, you probably don't hesitate to help when you see one in need. When one such good Samaritan ...

On Feb. 18, a fire broke out in an apartment complex in Mesa, Arizona, but a good Samaritan showed up out of nowhere to make a breathtaking rescue. By the ...

In the early morning hours on Sunday, as Rogersville police officer Tyler Dison's shift was coming to a close, he heard the urgent message: "apartments on fire with a possible ...