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A Georgia firefighter made an incredible rescue after she caught a baby dropped from the third floor of a burning apartment building, according to a video of the incident.

Media icon and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Oprah Winfrey filmed herself wading through mudslide debris at her estate Montecito, California, and posted the footage to the Internet on Wednesday.

A team of first responders in Colorado sprung into action Friday after a Clydesdale went on very thin ice and fell into an icy pond.

Two Milwaukee police officers have become local heroes after rescuing two unconscious teens from a burning car Tuesday night.

HOUSTON, Texas — Joel Osteen is facing a public relations nightmare as his 17,000-seat facility, Lakewood Church, is keeping doors closed during the overwhelming crisis caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Search and rescue teams and the 911 system has been inundated with people needing to be rescued in Houston. Now the Harris County judge is reported to say that boats and high-water vehicles are desperately needed and that additional rescue assets cannot get into Houston.

A Connecticut police officer saved a man from committing suicide by jumping off a roof, according to footage taken from the officer’s body cam.

A mountain climber survived a 1,500-foot fall off a mountain in Colorado after he went missing for several days.

On Saturday, San Diego lifeguards rescued an “intoxicated” man from Sunset Cliffs and the man began yelling “Go Trump!” as the lifeguards stood him up to bring him to safety.

Emergency crews rescued a bald eagle in Florida after it got stuck in a car’s grill.

A group of Navy SEALS were forced to return from a hostage rescue mission in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama failed to approve their operation while he was on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man has been fired from his job for the crime of saving the Jewish children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter was killed in a terror attack.

Video of a rat saving what appears to be its baby from the jaws of a snake has gone viral.

Six attempts to free a 60-plus foot blue whale from fishing materials on Monday came close, but were ultimately unable to provide relief as the giant mammal dove out of view.

SeaWorld’s Animal Rescue Center came to the aid of a starving sea lion pup that made its way into an upscale beachside restaurant Thursday morning.

Rushing culvert waters swept a mom and her eight-year-old son through pipes before a homeless man and a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer plucked the two from danger.

A (not so) little piggy named June was rescued from the roadside when a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer responded to a citizen’s call in Santa Rosa the morning after Thanksgiving and guided the sleeping giant out of danger.

The video below was released by the Kurdistan Regional Security Council. Its opening moments offer helmet-cam footage from the rescue of some 70 hostages from the ISIS prison near Hawija, Iraq.

A former Navy SEAL who has undergone 18 surgeries to repair the shattered femur he suffered from an AK-47 round when he tried to rescue deserter Bowe Bergdahl wants Bergdahl “held accountable” for the Americans he put at risk.

Pleasing cat lovers everywhere, but likely disappointing many dogs, the Sacramento Fire Department rescued a cat trapped in a car’s engine compartment Wednesday, according to News10.

On August 6, an armed homeless man intervened, saving a woman who had been thrown to ground where she was allegedly being beaten and kicked by her ex-boyfriend.

In a graphic video captured Sunday morning, a mother pushed her toddler to safety before falling to her death in the mechanism of a still-running escalator. Two employees tried helping the struggling mother out to no avail.

British man Matthew James, 30, is being hailed as a hero after shielding his fiancée Saera Wilson from gunfire when Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists opened fire on vacationers in Tunisia.

Two friends visiting northern California and fishing for abalone–a lucrative mollusc delicacy–were caught off guard while when a tide came in that forced the men up a sheer rock wall, one falling to his death 75 feet below. The incident is the fourth abalone-related death in the Mendocino region since the red abalone season began April 1.