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200 Animals Rescued From Home Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home.
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Canadian man rescued after chaining self to tree Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A man has been rescued after he spent nearly a week chained to a tree in a mountain forest near Vancouver in what police believe was a failed suicide attempt.
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Newborn piglet rescued from road Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A newborn piglet was rescued from an untimely death on the road -- and the slaughterhouse -- when a driver found it in central England. Staffers there said they believe it was born in a truck that was hauling its mother and then rolled off.
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Elderly woman rescued after five days in the tub Posted: 6 months ago by moe
She was stuck for five days and still survived. Good deal.
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Rescued lions join African wildlife sanctuary Posted: 4 months ago by bevissimo
Nine cubs, adult and tiger had been in decaying Romanian zoos.
The picture tells it all really...
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Seal Pup Rescued by Good Samaritans Posted: 5 months ago by dollyllama
A seal pup snagged in fishing line at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla is swimming free. As the seal grew, the net was in danger of choking it. But federal law protecting seals prohibited good samaritans from setting the pup free.
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Baby hedgehogs rescued after they are born too early Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
These tiny newborn hedgehogs are proving a handful for carers at a rescue centre - after the mild weather triggered a string of early orphaned arrivals.
See their cute pictures.
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Horse Rescued from Icy Well Posted: 10 months ago by dollyllama
Struggling in frigid temperatures a horse named Beau floated in an old spring well for about four hours on Friday. His owner, Linda Smiley, watched helplessly as rescue workers tried to pull the four-year-old horse from the icy water. She was visibly shaken as she talked about her family's horse.
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Eight Eritrean migrants rescued from a chemical tanker Posted: 8 months ago by Pocksucket
Six adults and two children from Eritrea were rescued from the back of a German chemical tanker and taken to a London hospital.
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Ingrid Betancourt and 3 Americans rescued in Colombia Posted: 3 months ago by wildminou
After 6 years of detention, Ingrid Betancourt was rescued from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops
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345 arrested, kids rescued in prostitution busts Posted: 4 months ago by bingo
Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.
The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation Cross Country" that caps off five years of similar stings nationwide.
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More than 100 cats rescued from Olympics site Posted: 8 months ago by bevissimo
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 160 feral cats and kittens have been rescued from the site of the London 2012 Olympics as demolition work continues at a pace.
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'Captain Calamity' rescued again Posted: 4 weeks ago by topofall
A sailor nicknamed "Captain Calamity" after he was rescued seven times when he tried to sail round Britain has been saved by the coastguard again.
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Lost Southland Dog Turns Up In Texas Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Happy endings for roaming pooch and his family!
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Jogger rescued after four days in swamp Posted: 2 years ago by arrch8
62 year old runner was rescued from a swamp in Orlando after being missing for four days.
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Man rescued 8 hours after jumping off cruise ship Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
A man who jumped from a cruise ship off Florida's coast early Friday was rescued about eight hours later by the Coast Guard, officials said.
image not from story
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Sports Bra saves missing American hiker Posted: 4 months ago by bevissimo
The 24-year-old woman from Colorado, identified by German press as Jessica B., had hung her sports bra on a timber transport cable in the Berchtesgaden region near the Austrian border in hopes that someone would find her.
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Teenage Girl Buried By Pacifica Landslide Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
Using his bare hands, Michael Keller knew he didn’t have much time to rescue a teenage girl who had been buried nearly up to her neck when tons of dirt and sand came crashing down from a Pacifica cliff to the beach below.
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Puppies under debris Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
Princess is reunited with her pups after they were trapped under a pile of rubble. WSVN's Rene Marsh reports.
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Caregiver Dies After Rescuing Patients From Fire Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
A nursing assistant from Lowell is being remembered as a hero after she died while helping evacuate nursing home residents during a fire.
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