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Firefighters are being credited with an amazing rescue of a man who was trapped in mud in Salem, Massachusetts. The incident happened during low tide Wednesday, so the North River was all mud. “I took a look out at the river and noticed a man stuck in the mud,” said witness Christina Stout. “He wasn’t really familiar with the...

Six stranded hunters were flown from a marsh on Cape Cod Saturday by a Coast Guard helicopter, the agency said. The rescue came when wind chills around Massachusetts were below zero, but no one was hurt, the Coast Guard said Sunday. Their boat had become grounded at Slough Point in Barnstable, near Duck Island and the Great Marshes and they…

Neighbors came to the rescue of a Beverly man when his home went up in flames Thursday, carrying him to safety before firefighters arrived.

The Coast Guard rescued six adults and four children, including a baby, from major flooding in the Pacific Northwest.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

The woman, who was alone, had been treading water for nearly 12 hours in 66-degree waters.

A person was rescued after becoming trapped about 20 feet down a storm drain near a New Hampshire mall early Wednesday morning, fire officials said.

Some of those left behind after the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan say they are scared the ruling Taliban will find them, throw them in jail, perhaps even kill them because they are Americans or had worked for the U.S. government

Littleton police say someone escaped from the car and flagged down drivers around 6:30 a.m. Monday.

A Louisiana man rescued a baby deer who had lost his mother from Hurricane Ida’s flood waters.

Neighbors heard barking from a manhole last Friday. By Saturday, crews began their rescue efforts.

Cellphone footage captured the moment an Alabama man jumped from a burning 25-foot lift into a safety net below.

Several boaters were rescued Thursday after their boat started taking on water.

Two kayakers saved a female moose calf after it fell into a river in Alberta, Canada

Bodycam video shows a heroic rescue by a Gloucester County Sheriff’s deputy in Virginia who lifted a crashed car to save a woman trapped in the wreckage.

Orange County first responders and good Samaritans rescued 14 people from a boat that was taking on water off the coast of Newport Beach, authorities said.

A Canadian family’s one-and-a-half-year-old Maremma mix dog is being hailed as a hero. Clover the dog’s quick thinking helped a girl who had a seizure while on a walk.

A man dining out at the Wharf Saturday night is being credited with saving a boy’s life after the child fell into the Washington Channel.

An on-board fire Tuesday night disabled the vessel amidst 50 mph winds and 30-foot waves south of Nova Scotia.