Teens lured pregnant woman with promise of baby clothes with plan to cut baby from her womb. Scary stuff. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

It's Lassie all over again: dogs get help for hurt woman. picked by henkspaan 2 years ago

The rescue crews are waiting for a group out of Maryland that specializes in large animal rescue. No one at the scene has the proper equipment to get to the horse that's been stranded since Thursday afternoon. picked by dollyllama 5 months ago

A woman who helped rescue an injured cat on the roadside got a surprise when a veterinarian told her it was a wild and potentially dangerous bobcat. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

..."When I got to the bottom, looking up, I realized what kind of position [the dog] was in and I was scared to death," said Tollefson.

The Tacoma Fire Technical Rescue team arrived and firefighter Dan Elgin rapelled down to rescue Chug. He put him in a harness and brought him down the steep cliff. picked by bevissimo 8 months ago

Frantic police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A fire brigade has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money after sending two engines and seven firemen to rescue a seagull. The brigade struggled for more than an hour to save the injured bird, which was trapped on a factory roof in Bridgwater, Somerset. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A dramatic ice rescue was caught on tape early Sunday morning near Boston as firefighters chopped their way into a frozen pond to save a man in Weymouth. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something was wrong when the papers piled up outside their home. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

A cat today sparked a full-scale rescue after he chased a mouse into a three inch gap between two garages - and got stuck for two hours. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A waiter in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who left his shift to rescue a woman being attacked by an armed carjacker was fired after the heroic effort. picked by DaftGretel 12 months ago

A stingray leaped out of the water, jumped into a boat, striking a woman in the face, and killed her. It is unknown what killed her, the blow to the head, the land on the boat deck, or the sting ray barbs.

Crazy! picked by muppetmaker 5 months ago

Goin and his crew of two other Kentucky National Guardsmen could keep flying through a brutal snowstorm to rescue a 13-year-old girl who had been in an accident or play it safe.

"They wanted to see that little girl rescued if at all possible," Goin said. picked by henkspaan 9 months ago

A British fire crew had to tear apart the walls of a home Friday in order to rescue a 560-pound woman stuck in her bathroom. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

When a passer-by called reported a worker dangling from a Western Area Power Administration tower 150 feet in the air, Fire and EMS rescue workers hurried to help - making "him" the luckiest training dummy in the world picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

A white-haired 81-year-old great-grandmother who was rolled into a Newport Beach courtroom with her wrists handcuffed to a wheelchair Thursday became possibly the oldest person in Orange County history to plead guilty to first-degree murder. picked by tlovesd 2 years ago

DUBUQUE, Iowa - A woman delivering the newspaper was treated for hypothermia after falling into a snow-filled storm drain, where she was stuck for more than an hour. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

An Oklahoma City woman spent 43 hours upside-down in a vehicle after a wreck along an Oklahoma highway was saved by her four dogs, rescuers said. picked by henkspaan 10 months ago

Rescue crews had to cut apart a portable toilet to rescue a man who got stuck naked inside the potty. Authorities say the 31-year-old man used his cell phone to call 911 on Sunday from inside a portable toilet. picked by goober 3 months ago