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There are more stories of heroism out of World War II than can ever fit in a school textbook, but hundreds of those stories are written down somewhere for those who want to find them. Over 100 million military personnel participated in the war, including many women. Here are the stories of eleven of these brave women. They are from many countries, and they all did their part and more for the Allied effort.

1. Nancy Wake: Guerrilla Fighter

Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Nancy Wake was a journalist in New York and London and then married a wealthy Frenchman and was living in Marseille when Germany invaded. Wake immediately went to work for the French resistance, hiding and smuggling men out of France and ferrying contraband supplies and falsified documents. She was once captured and interrogated for days, but gave no secrets away. With the Nazis in hot pursuit, Wake managed to escape to Britain in 1943, and joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British intelligence agency. After training with weapons and parachutes, she was airdropped back into France-as an official spy and warrior. Wake had no trouble shooting Nazis or blowing up buildings with the French guerrilla fighters known as maquis in the service of the resistance. She once killed an SS sentry with her bare hands. After the war, Nancy Wake was awarded the George Medal from the British, the Medal of Freedom from the U.S., and the Médaille de la Résistance and three Croix de Guerre from France, among other honors. She also found out that her husband had died in 1943 when the Gestapo had tortured him to find out his wife's whereabouts. He refused any cooperation to the point of death.

Wake ran for political office a few times in Australia, and remarried in the 1950s. She published her biography, The White Mouse, in 1988. That was the Gestapo's nickname for her due to her talent for sneaking by them. Nancy Wake died August 7, 2011 at age 98.

2. Elsie Ott: Flight Nurse

Lieutenant Elsie S. Ott was the first woman to receive the U.S. Air Medal. Already a trained nurse, she joined the Army Air Corps in 1941 and was sent to Karachi, India. The Army Air Corps was considering using airplanes to evacuate injured military as they delivered fresh troops. Ott was assigned to the first evacuation flight with only 24 hours notice -and she had never flown before. The plane had no medical equipment beyond first aid kit supplies, the patients had a motley variety of injuries, diseases, and mental illnesses, and there was only one army medic to help her care for the passengers. The plane left India on January 17, 1943 and made several stops, picking up more patients, on its 6-day flight to Washington, D.C. The previous route for such a mission was by ship, and took three months. Ott wrote up a report on that flight, recommending important changes for further evacuation flights. She returned to India a few months later with a new unit, the 803rd Military Air Evacuation Squad, and was promoted to captain in 1946.

3. Natalia Peshkova: Combat Medic

Natalia Peshkova was drafted into the Russian Army straight out of high school at age 17. She was trained with weapons that didn't work and then sent off with a unit so woefully equipped that at one time a horse ate her felt boot as she slept, forcing her to make do with one boot for a month. Peshkova spent three years at the front, accompanying wounded soldiers from the front to hospitals and trying to fight disease and starvation among the troops. She was wounded three times. Once, when the Germans moved into an area the Soviets held, Peshkova was separated from her unit and had to disguise herself. However, she could not discard her weapon because she knew the Soviet Army would execute her for losing it! Yet she made it back to her unit undetected. As the war dragged on, Peshkova was promoted to Sergeant Major and given political education duties further from the front. After the war, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star for bravery.

4. Susan Travers: French Foreign Legionnaire

Englishwoman Susan Travers was a socialite living in France when the war broke out. She trained as a nurse for the French Red Cross and became an ambulance driver. When France fell to the Nazis, she escaped to London via Finland and joined the Free French Forces. In 1941, Travers was sent with the French Foreign Legion as a driver to Syria and then to North Africa. Assigned to drive Colonel Marie-Pierre Koenig, she fell in love with him. In Libya, her unit was besieged by Rommel's Afrika Corps, but Travers refused to be evacuated with the other female personnel. After hiding for 15 days in sand pits, the unit decided to make a break at night. The enemy noticed the escaping convoy when a land mine went off. Driving the lead vehicle with Koenig, Travers took off at breakneck speed under machine gun fire and broke through the enemy lines, leading 2,500 troops to the safety of an Allied encampment hours later. Her car was full of bullet holes. Travers was promoted to General, and served in Italy, Germany, and France during the remainder of the war. She was wounded once during that period driving over a land mine.

After the war, Travers applied to become a an official member of the French Foreign Legion. She did not specify her sex on the application, and it was accepted -rubber-stamped by an officer who knew and admired her. Travers was the only woman ever to serve with the Legion as an official member, and was posted to Vietnam during the First Indo-China War. Some of her awards were the Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre and Médaille Militaire. Travers waited until the year 2000, when she was 91 years old, to publish her autobiography Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion. By then, both her husband (whom she met after World War II) and Colonel Koenig (who was a married man during the war) had passed away.

5. Reba Whittle: POW Nurse

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany. The few survivors were taken prisoner. The Germans did not know what to do with Whittle, as she was their first female military POW -at least on the Western Front. In the East, many female Russian soldiers were interned as POWs and used for forced labor. Whittle, who was initially rejected by the Army Air Corps in 1941 for being underweight, was allowed to minister to the wounded in camp. A Swiss legation that negotiated POW transfers, mostly of wounded prisoners, discovered her in custody and began to arrange her release. Whittle was escorted by the German Red Cross away from the camp along with 109 male POWS on January 25th, 1945.

Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

6. Eileen Nearne: British Spy

Eileen Nearne joined the Special Operations Executive in Britain as a radio operator. Two of her siblings also served the SOE. Only 23 years old, Nearne was dropped by parachute into occupied France to relay messages from the French resistance and to arrange weapons drops. She talked her way out of trouble several times, but was eventually arrested by the Nazis, tortured, and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Yet Nearne stuck to her cover story. She was transferred to a labor camp and escaped during yet another transfer. Once again, Nearne talked her way out of trouble when confronted by the Gestapo and hid in a church until the area was liberated by the Americans.

After the war, Nearne was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French and was made a a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by King George VI. She suffered some psychological problems and lived a quiet life with her sister Jacqueline (also a British spy during the war) until Jacqueline's death in 1982. When Eileen Nearne died in 2010, her body was not discovered for several days, and her wartime exploits were only revealed after a search of her apartment uncovered her war medals. Nearne was then given a hero's funeral.

7. Ruby Bradley: POW Nurse

Colonel Ruby Bradley was a career Army nurse well before the war began. She was a hospital administrator on Luzon Island in the Philippines when the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor. Bradley hid in the hills with a doctor and another nurse when the Japanese overran the island. Turned over by locals, they were taken back to their former base, which had been turned into a prison camp. They once again went to work aiding the sick and injured, though with fewer supplies and hardly any equipment. Bradley spent over three years as a POW, performing surgery, delivering babies, smuggling supplies, and comforting the dying in the camps. When she was finally liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, she weighed a mere 84 pounds, down from her normal 110 pounds. You can read Bradley's own account of her imprisonment.

But wait -there's more! After the war, Bradley stayed with the Army and earned her bachelor's degree. In 1950 she went to Korea as the 8th Army's chief nurse, working at the front lines. During one medical evacuation just ahead of the enemy, she loaded all the wounded soldiers and was the last person to jump aboard the plane, just as her ambulance exploded from the shelling. Bradley remained in Korea through the entire conflict. Bradley's 34 medals and citations included two Legions of Merit and two Bronze Stars from the Army, which also promoted her to Colonel. She was also awarded the International Red Cross' highest honor, the Florence Nightingale Medal. Bradley retired from the Army in 1963, but continued to work as a supervising nurse in West Virginia for 17 years. When she died in 2002 (at age 94), she was buried with honors at Arlington Cemetery.

8. Krystyna Skarbek: Polish Spy

Krystyna Skarbek (later Christine Granville) was the daughter of a Polish Count and the granddaughter of a wealthy Jewish banker. Skarbek's second husband was a diplomat, and they were together in Ethiopia when World War II broke out. Skarbek signed up with Britain's Section D to return to Poland through Hungary and facilitate communications with the Allies. Impressed with the "flaming Polish patriot," the British intelligence service accepted her plan. Beginning in 1939, Skarbek worked to organize Polish resistance groups and smuggle Polish pilots out of the occupied nation. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941, but faked a case of TB by biting her tongue until it bled. They let her go after hours of interrogation. Skarbek and her partner Andrzej Kowerski went to the British embassy and received new identities as Christine Granville and Andrew Kennedy. They were smuggled out of Poland through Yugoslavia to Turkey, where they were welcomed by the British.

In Cairo in 1944, Granville and Kennedy founded themselves persona non grata because the Polish group they had been working with, the Musketeers, had been compromised by German spies. Granville could not be sent back to Poland, and instead trained as a radio operator and paratrooper. After D-Day she was dropped into France, but her assigned resistance area was overrun with Germans, so she escaped, hiking 70 miles to safety. She then worked in the Alps to turn Axis fighters. Granville's success rate was almost supernatural and she took extraordinary risks to pull off further capers. The most famous was when she outed herself as a spy to French officials working for the Gestapo, and arranged a prisoner release by threats and promises of money. Granville and the prisoners made it out alive, which secured her reputation as a legendary spy.

After the war, Granville was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the George Medal, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). However, Granville was at loose ends without the adrenaline rush of her wartime exploits. She did not return to Poland, as it was under Russian authority, but lived in Britain, Africa, and then Australia. Granville was murdered in 1952 by Dennis Muldowney, a stalker who had become obsessed with her. There was a rumor that Granville carried on a one-year affair with Ian Fleming, but there is no evidence to support it. However, she is considered to be the inspiration for at least two of his Bond girls.

9. Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Russian Sniper

Unlike many of the young girl snipers of the Soviet Army, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was an accomplished sharpshooter before joining the military. She was older than the others as well, and was in her fourth year of study at Kiev University when war broke out. The Russian Army sent around 2,000 trained female snipers to the front during the war; only around 500 survived. Pavlichenko had by far the greatest war record of them all, with 309 confirmed kills, including 36 enemy snipers. And that was accomplished by 1942! Pavlichenko was wounded by a mortar and pulled from the front. Because of her record, she was sent on a public relations tour to Canada and the United States to drum up support for the war effort and make an impression on the Allies. She was never sent back to the front, but served during the remainder of the war as a sniper trainer. Pavlichenko earned the title Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war, she completed her university degree and became a historian and served on the the Soviet Committee of the Veterans of War.

10. Aleda Lutz: Flight Nurse

1st Lt. Aleda E. Lutz volunteered with the unit inaugurated by Elsie Ott (see #2), the 803rd Military Air Evacuation Squad, designed to carry wounded soldiers quickly away from the war front. Lutz flew 196 missions to evacuate more than 3,500 men. No other flight nurse logged as many hours as Lutz. She would have stretched that record of 814 hours out further, but in December of 1944, her C47 hospital plane picked up wounded soldiers from Lyon, Italy, and then crashed. There were no survivors. Lutz was the first woman ever awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, conferred posthumously. This was in addition to the Air Medal (earned four times), the Oak Leaf Cluster, the Red Cross Medal, and the Purple Heart. In 1990, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Saginaw, Michigan was named in her honor.

11. Noor Inayat Khan: Spy Princess

Princess Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan had a particularly distinguished background. Her father was Indian Sufi master and musician Inayat Khan; her mother was American Ora Ray Baker, the niece of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, and her paternal great-great-grandfather was the ruler of Kingdom of Mysore. Noor was born in Russia; her younger siblings were born in England. She held a British passport, but lived in France when Germany invaded. The family was able to escape to England ahead of the Germans, and Noor Khan joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). The British intelligence agency SOE took her as a wireless operator and sent her to France in June of 1943. There, she transmitted information out of France by Morse code. She refused to quit, even as other radio operators were arrested. Khan was arrested in October by the German intelligence agency (SD) and fought them so fiercely that she was classified as "an extremely dangerous prisoner." A month of interrogation yielded no information about Khan's SOE activities, and she even sent a coded message about her compromised position (which the SOE ignored). However, the Germans found her notebooks, which gave them enough information to send false messages and lure more British spies to France and arrest. In November, Khan escaped briefly, but was caught and then kept in shackles for ten months. In September of 1944, Khan was transferred to Dachau, where she was immediately executed along with three other female SOE agents.

Khan was posthumously awarded the British George Cross, the French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). The strange part of her story was that Khan was a Sufi Muslim pacifist of Indian origin. She opposed the British rule of India, and if it weren't for the Nazi invasion of Europe, might had fought against the British instead of for them.

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It was the night of Dec. 2, 2019 during a routine drive home on the QEII highway for two strangers.

Harry Osborne and Kevin Moore were travelling down the road at the same time, neither of them knowing their lives were about to intersect in the most profound way.

"All I remember is I was driving south and sparks were flying everywhere so I guessed I had a flat tire and I tried to squeeze into the centre median.

"That's when I hit the centre poles," Osborne said.

He has very vague memories of what happened but several Good Samaritans who saved him are able to fill in the blanks.

Harry's truck on fire.Moore was driving with his son Chad, while friends Steve Dowie and Greg Patzer were in the backseat.

They noticed smoke wafting from the front of Osborne's pickup and they pulled over to help.

They soon realized he was trapped and his truck was on fire.

"When we jumped out, the flames were just coming out of the front grill.

"By the time I crossed lanes, the flames got up to the windshield. It was red and I thought to myself: 'We've got to get out of here right now," Moore said.

"He was panicked. That's when he said, 'Don't let me die.'"

Dowie and Patzer helped keep Osborne away from his burning truck.

"It was a real eye opener when we saw the flames," Dowie said. "Didn't realize he was in that much danger."

After meeting with Osborne's wife, daughter, son and grandson, they can't ignore the impact of what they did.

"What if we went another route? What if we hadn't stopped? That's what keeps coming back to my mind," Patzer said.

"If we hadn't stopped, this would have been the worst day of our life," Moore said. "I knew everybody in that truck was thinking that."

Douglas Osborne, Harry's son, wanted to express his gratitude to these men.

"Just to put a face to the story and thank them and shake their hands," he said. "Life is short and you never know when it's your time to go but thankfully, thank God, it wasn't his turn to go this time."

"I'm not a religious guy but I do believe that God was up there looking down saying, 'This is one soul I'm going to save,' and he sent my saviors, my angels," Harry Osborne said.

"Thanks to all you guys, I'm here and my family has a grandpa and a father."

Osborne is off work, still recovering from the trauma of the crash. His family has set up a gofundme page.

The heroes and Osborne plan on getting together again soon.

"It was a powerful feeling we stopped to pull over," Moore said. "To see how it impacts Harry's life and the connection we built, that truly is heartwarming."

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Living Stronger is a "CBS Evening News" series celebrating the people leading the way to longevity -- and inspiring the rest of us.

PLANO, Texas -- When Officer Arthur Parker directs traffic in front of Clark High School in Plano, Texas, the 57-year-old keeps the cars and his body moving, surprising some drivers.

"I had a patrol call and say someone called and said there's an officer drunk in the street. They got a real call," Parker said.

But to students and staff who know Officer Parker, or OP as he's called, it's nothing new.

He has worked as a school resource officer for the past 27 years and he's living stronger by keeping people safe and spreading joy.

"He makes them laugh," said Janice Williams, the high school's principal.

"My first impression was 'oh my gosh, this is gonna be the person that's gonna be protecting us' because he did his normal goofy OP (Officer Parker) thing and went into some kind of character, and he's kept me laughing ever since," Williams said.

To keep students motivated, Parker even taught himself a tune on the harmonica for every situation.

For a history lesson, he plays Taps. When he's trying to get kids to move along, he said "Play 'Star Wars,' 'Luke, I am your father, go to class.'"

To the teens at Clark High, he's a confidant and confidence booster.

"OP, he really tries to find that connection," said student Sapida Abbasi.

"He's mostly just taught me how to be confident no matter what," she said.

"When it's fun. he's always fun, when things get real, he's strict," said student Sirnic Mbua.

Last year, Officer Parker was voted Plano police officer of the year.

To show their appreciation, the students came up with a secret plan; They surprised the police veteran with a pep rally.

Parker believes making other people smile is the key to a happy life.

"I feel like I have so much to give, and I'm still not giving enough. Not many people have the opportunity or are aware of the power they have to make someone happy," Parker said.

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Living Stronger is a "CBS Evening News" series celebrating the people leading the way to longevity -- and inspiring the rest of us. PLANO, Texas -- When Officer Arthur Parker directs traffic in front of Clark High School in Plano, Texas, the 57-year-old keeps the cars and his body moving, surprising some drivers.

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Support pours in for Quaden Bayles, who faced bullying for dwarfism

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Sherlock Holmes running to rescue a pedestrian in distress sounds exactly like something out of the original book series, but earlier this week, that heroic story actually came to life-and it happened right near Baker St. in London.

Uber driver Manuel Dias was escorting a middle-aged married couple to their destination when they suddenly saw a bicyclist being mobbed by four young men.

The cyclist, who was a delivery rider for the meal service Deliveroo, had just removed his helmet when the attackers broke a bottle over his head and started to hit him.

Dias's passenger jumped out of the car and ran into the fray, yelling "Leave him alone" - and it was then that he realized that his passenger was none other than Benedict Cumberbatch, the film and television actor from BBC's Sherlock and Dr. Strange.

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As 53-year-old Dias ran to help Cumberbatch, the Sherlock star pulled the young men off of the cyclist and broke up the attack.

"I had hold of one lad and Benedict another. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing. He was very brave. He did most of it, to be honest," Dias told . "They tried to hit him but he defended himself and pushed them away. He wasn't injured. Then I think they also recognized it was Benedict and ran away."

Ironically, the attack took place right around the corner from Baker Street, which is the block on which the Sherlock Holmes series takes place.

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According to Dias, Cumberbatch made sure that the cyclist was okay before giving the young man a hug.

Deliveroo later posted a thank you note for the actor on Twitter, saying: "Thank you Benedict Cumberbatch for your brave actions. Deliveroo riders are heroes - their safety is our priority and any violence against them is totally unacceptable. So on behalf of everyone at Deliveroo: thank you."

The New York Times says that the assault was also confirmed by the local police department. Cumberbatch, reportedly told The Sun, "I did it out of, well, I had to, you know . . ." although he has declined further comment on the incident.

Thank you Benedict Cumberbatch for your brave actions. Deliveroo riders are heroes - their safety is our priority and any violence against them is totally unacceptable. So on behalf of everyone at deliveroo: thank you. pic.twitter.com/NGCkQB3z7J
- Deliveroo (@Deliveroo) June 2, 2018

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MEAD, Colo. -- A custodian at an elementary school in Colorado is being hailed a hero after helping save the life of a 3rd grader choking on his lunch, reports CBS Denver.

Eight-year-old Luc Dowen was choking on a bagel when the school custodian stepped in to help.

"If he wasn't there, I probably would have died," said Luc.

Luc knew he was choking and had to act fast.

"All I could hear in my minds is ... 'Get an adult, get an adult,'" recalled Luc to CBS Denver.

So that's what Luc did. He ran to Jeff Fleiger, the school custodian, and tapped him on the back.

Fleiger immediately sprung into action, performing the Heimlich maneuver on the choking elementary student. Fleiger said he was trained nearly a decade ago in how to do the Heimlich, but never had to use it. Until now.

It took a few tries, but it eventually worked. Then Fleiger carried Luc to the nurses office. Fleiger said it didn't really hit him until the next day.

"The next day he (Luc) came up to me and gave me a hug," Fleiger said.

When asked if he has anything to say to Jeff, Luc replied with a big smile, "Just thank you."

Luc said he advises other people not to be scared when someone is performing the Heimlich on them.

"Because the adrenaline kicks in and it doesn't hurt at all," he said.
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MEAD, Colo. -- A custodian at an elementary school in Colorado is being hailed a hero after helping save the life of a 3rd grader choking on his lunch, reports CBS Denver. Eight-year-old Luc Dowen was choking on a bagel when the school custodian stepped in to help.

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Alberta man uses lukewarm coffee to rescue frozen, abandoned kittens

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This Family Has Driven 5,000 People to the Hospital for Free

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. - A fire that swept through the home of a Massachusetts firefighter was prevented from harming anyone thanks to the quick thinking of a 6-year-old girl.

The blaze began just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday and spread quickly through the home in Swampscott, on Massachusetts's North Shore, about 15 miles from Boston, tearing through its roof.

But the firefighter's daughter was awakened when a fan in her room unexpectedly cut off and she smelled smoke. She warned her parents that the fire was spreading and along with their two sons, they narrowly escaped the burning house.

"Probably with just no more than a minute to spare they got out," Swampscott Fire Chief Kevin Breen told CBS Boston.

"It was near her bedroom, so she would have been, I don't even want to think about it," the girl's mother, Lori Pierro, said. "If she didn't know what to do, then...I don't know what would have happened," Pierro said.

The family's fire evacuation plan helped to hasten their escape from the burning house.

"We're all safe. That's the most important thing. Things can be replaced but your family can't. And we are all safe," Pierro said.

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. - A fire that swept through the home of a Massachusetts firefighter was prevented from harming anyone thanks to the quick thinking of a 6-year-old girl. The blaze began just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday and spread quickly through the home in Swampscott, on Massachusetts's North Shore, about 15 miles from Boston, tearing through its roof.

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A Canadian oil worker is being hailed for using his leftover coffee to rescue three kittens he found trapped to a sheet of ice last week.

Kendall Diwisch had been performing some routine checks on the oil wells in Dayton Valley, Edmonton when he saw what looked like a piece of trash left on a sheet of snow.

Upon closer inspection, however, he was shocked to discover that it was a trio of terrified kittens whose tails were frozen to the ground.

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Diwisch quickly fetched his cup of coffee from his pickup truck and used the hot liquid to sufficiently melt the ice around the kittens' tails. After the coffee had done its job, Diwisch was able to pull the felines free and take them home.

Diwisch then posted photos and video of his ingenious rescue mission to Facebook in hopes of finding a forever family for the kittens.

"Took them home, fed and watered them; they look to be healthy and friendly," he wrote. "If any friends are looking to have a new addition in their family, let us know as they will need homes. All three look to be males, and we also gave them dewormer."

Since publishing his post to social media, Diwisch's rescue video has been viewed more than half a million times. Not only that, he found a family to adopt all three of the cats.

"All three little rascals went to their new home today where they get to be together instead of separating them," wrote Diwisch. "All three are eating and drinking and very energetic. Thanks for everyone's consideration and offering to take them; very appreciated."

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Man Uses Coffee to Rescue Three Kittens Whose Tails Were Frozen to the Ground

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A Canadian oil worker is being hailed for using his leftover coffee to rescue three kittens he found trapped to a sheet of ice last week. Kendall Diwisch had been performing some routine checks on the oil wells in Dayton Valley, Edmonton when he saw what looked like a piece of trash left on a sheet of snow.

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PARIS (Reuters) - France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched.

The video went viral and Gassama, who has been nicknamed "Spider-Man" for reaching the boy in the nick of time, was swiftly granted a meeting at the Elysee Palace.

"I did it because it was a child," French newspaper Le Parisien quoted Gassama as saying. "I climbed .... Thank God I saved him."

Macron congratulated Gassama for "an exceptional act" and said France would give him a job in the emergency services.

"We'll obviously be setting all your papers straight and if you wish it, we will start the process of naturalization so that you can become French," he added.

Ministers said the citizenship process would be sped up, although Gassama can't legally be granted it right away.

As elsewhere in Europe, immigration from Africa and the Middle East has fixated French public opinion in the last few years, fueling the rise of far-right parties such as the National Front.

Macron, who had been criticized by left-wing voters for taking a tougher stance on immigration since his election, may also have sought to send a message to Socialist voters by signaling a more welcoming attitude to a deserving migrant.

Gassama told Macron he tried to cross the Mediterranean in March 2014 to reach Italy, but was caught by police.

Europe has faced a migrant crisis since 2015 following wars in Libya and Syria and more than 1 million people from Africa and the Middle East have tried to reach the continent via Turkey or by sea.

Macron's government has said it wants to be both firm and fair on immigration but it took a tougher stance lately, with parliament approving a bill that tightens asylum rules.

"What you have done corresponds with what firefighters do; if this fits your wishes, you could join the firefighters' corps so that you can do (such acts) on a daily basis," he said.

Adam Thiam, a Malian analyst and former presidential advisor told Reuters that Gassama's act had been praised in his home country.

"There is great pride here in Mali," Thiam said. "But while (Gassama) gets the honors, there are ... Malian citizens under the threat of being expelled by the French government."

Gassama told Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo by phone on Sunday he arrived from Mali a few months ago and wished to stay in France.

"I replied that his heroic gesture was an example for all citizens and that the City of Paris will obviously be keen to support him in his efforts to settle in France," Hidalgo said.

The boy's father was arrested and told police he had left his son alone to go shopping and returned home later than planned because he was playing Pokemon Go, an enhanced reality game, on his smartphone.

"His behavior constitutes an offense, failing to honor parental responsibilities, which carries a possible sentence of two years in jail," Molins said.

Gassama is being offered a spell of community service work at the Paris emergency services. An official website says the work pays about 480 euros ($558) a month for a fixed 11-month period.

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France offers citizenship to Malian immigrant who scaled building to save child

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PARIS (Reuters) - France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

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MEAD, Colo. -- A custodian at an elementary school in Colorado is being hailed a hero after helping save the life of a 3rd grader choking on his lunch, reports CBS Denver.

Eight-year-old Luc Dowen was choking on a bagel when the school custodian stepped in to help.

"If he wasn't there, I probably would have died," said Luc.

Luc knew he was choking and had to act fast.

"All I could hear in my minds is ... 'Get an adult, get an adult,'" recalled Luc to CBS Denver.

So that's what Luc did. He ran to Jeff Fleiger, the school custodian, and tapped him on the back.

Fleiger immediately sprung into action, performing the Heimlich maneuver on the choking elementary student. Fleiger said he was trained nearly a decade ago in how to do the Heimlich, but never had to use it. Until now.

It took a few tries, but it eventually worked. Then Fleiger carried Luc to the nurses office. Fleiger said it didn't really hit him until the next day.

"The next day he (Luc) came up to me and gave me a hug," Fleiger said.

When asked if he has anything to say to Jeff, Luc replied with a big smile, "Just thank you."

Luc said he advises other people not to be scared when someone is performing the Heimlich on them.

"Because the adrenaline kicks in and it doesn't hurt at all," he said.
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MEAD, Colo. -- A custodian at an elementary school in Colorado is being hailed a hero after helping save the life of a 3rd grader choking on his lunch, reports CBS Denver. Eight-year-old Luc Dowen was choking on a bagel when the school custodian stepped in to help.

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Former Giants player saves man from roof of burning home

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Cole Farrand used an extension ladder from his grandparents’ house to bring the man to safety

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. - A fire that swept through the home of a Massachusetts firefighter was prevented from harming anyone thanks to the quick thinking of a 6-year-old girl.

The blaze began just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday and spread quickly through the home in Swampscott, on Massachusetts's North Shore, about 15 miles from Boston, tearing through its roof.

But the firefighter's daughter was awakened when a fan in her room unexpectedly cut off and she smelled smoke. She warned her parents that the fire was spreading and along with their two sons, they narrowly escaped the burning house.

"Probably with just no more than a minute to spare they got out," Swampscott Fire Chief Kevin Breen told CBS Boston.

"It was near her bedroom, so she would have been, I don't even want to think about it," the girl's mother, Lori Pierro, said. "If she didn't know what to do, then...I don't know what would have happened," Pierro said.

The family's fire evacuation plan helped to hasten their escape from the burning house.

"We're all safe. That's the most important thing. Things can be replaced but your family can't. And we are all safe," Pierro said.

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Family saved from burning home by 6-year-old girl

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. - A fire that swept through the home of a Massachusetts firefighter was prevented from harming anyone thanks to the quick thinking of a 6-year-old girl. The blaze began just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday and spread quickly through the home in Swampscott, on Massachusetts's North Shore, about 15 miles from Boston, tearing through its roof.

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A teacher's aide in Oklahoma came to a little boy's rescue after the child had swallowed a penny.

A teacher's aide in Oklahoma is being commended after she was caught on camera rescuing a little boy who was choking on a penny.

The 5-year-old boy's sister can be heard telling the teacher's aide on the school bus that she thinks her brother swallowed a coin.

"Oh my lord, are you serious?" the teacher's aide responds.

The aide, who was driving, grabs the boy and begins doing the Heimlich maneuver.

The boy spits up, and eventually the penny comes out.

After the entire ordeal was over, the little boy asked for the penny back. The teacher's aide agreed, as long as he promised to never swallow it again.

To see the dramatic moments, watch the video above.

First published on April 13, 2016 / 3:43 PM EDT

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Teacher's aide in Oklahoma is being commended after she saved a little boy who had swallowed a penny

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OAKLAND, Fla. - Authorities say two boys rescued two young children from a burning mobile home in central Florida.

Ten-year-old Isiah Francis and 11-year-old Jeremiah Grimes rushed in to a neighbor's home around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in Orange County after a fire broke out and rescued a 1-year-old and an 8-month-old.

Isiah and Jeremiah say the smoke inside the home was so thick they could barely see.

"I was really scared because I thought I was going to get burned," Isiah told CBS affiliate WKMG in Orlando. "I was nervous because there was so much smoke it was hard for me to see."

Fire officials say two other children, ages 2 and 5, who live in the home were injured. One was taken to the hospital via medical helicopter. They were both in critical but stable condition at Arnold Palmer Hospital.

Orange County Fire Rescue says a total of four children and their father were in the home when the fire broke out.

The cause of the blaze hasn't been determined, but it is believed to have started on the stove.

WKMG reports investigators are trying to determine why the father did not get all the kids out, and what was on the stove that caused the fire to start.

Isiah said he has dreams of becoming a firefighter some day.

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Florida boys rescue toddlers from burning home

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OAKLAND, Fla. - Authorities say two boys rescued two young children from a burning mobile home in central Florida. Ten-year-old Isiah Francis and 11-year-old Jeremiah Grimes rushed in to a neighbor's home around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in Orange County after a fire broke out and rescued a 1-year-old and an 8-month-old.

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Gallant guide dog Orlando, a black Labrador retriever, bravely leapt on to the tracks at a Manhattan subway platform on Tuesday after his blind owner lost consciousness and tumbled in front of an oncoming train.

Cecil Williams, 61, and Orlando both escaped serious injury when the train passed over top of them - a miraculous end to a harrowing ordeal that began when Williams began to feel faint on his way to the dentist.

"He tried to hold me up," an emotional Williams said from his hospital bed, his voice breaking at times.

Witnesses said Orlando began barking frantically and tried to stop Williams from falling from the platform. Matthew Martin told the New York Post that Orlando jumped down and tried to rouse Williams even as a train approached.

"He was kissing him, trying to get him to move," Martin said.

Witnesses called for help and the train's operator slowed his approach as Williams and Orlando lay in the trench between the rails.

"The dog saved my life," Williams said.

As Williams regained consciousness, he said he heard someone telling him to be still. Emergency workers put him on a stretcher and pulled him from the subway, and made sure Orlando was not badly injured.

"I'm feeling amazed," Williams said. "I feel that God, the powers that be, have something in store for me. They didn't take me away this time. I'm here for a reason."

Williams was taken to a hospital where he is expected to recover, with Orlando at his bedside. Williams, a large bandage on his head, said he is not sure why he lost consciousness, but he is on insulin and other medications.

Orlando, described by Williams as serious but laid-back, was making new friends at the hospital. He will be rewarded with some kind of special treat, Williams said, along with plenty of affection and scratches behind the ears.

"[He] gets me around and saves my life on a daily basis," Williams said.

Williams, of Brooklyn, has been blind since 1995, and Orlando is his second dog. The lab will be 11 on 5 January, and will be retiring soon, Williams said.

Williams had planned to look for a good home for Orlando as his health insurance would not cover the cost of a non-working dog, but on Wednesday he learned that Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a New York organisation that trained Orlando, had received enough donations for the two to stay together after Orlando retires.
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Blind man who fell on New York subway tracks: 'guide dog saved my life'

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Gallant guide dog Orlando, a black Labrador retriever, bravely leapt on to the tracks at a Manhattan subway platform on Tuesday after his blind owner lost consciousness and tumbled in front of an oncoming train.

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A team of conservationists managed to save four dolphins from a Florida waterway after they joined together to form a human chain earlier this week.

Rescuers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and Clearwater Marine Aquarium say that the two mother dolphins and their calves had become stranded in the St. Petersburg canal because they perceived the bridges to be barriers.

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Since the cetaceans couldn't figure out how to get back to the waters of Tampa Bay, they remained trapped inside the canal-and since the canal waters were low in salinity, they may not have survived very long.

After marine experts received reports of the dolphins' plight, however, more than a dozen rescuers arrived on the scene, donned their swimming gear, and waded into the water so they could shepherd the mammals back to safety.

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Watch Rescuers Form a Human Chain to Save Four Dolphins Trapped in Florida Canal

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A team of conservationists managed to save four dolphins from a Florida waterway after they joined together to form a human chain earlier this week. Rescuers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and Clearwater Marine Aquarium say that the two mother dolphins and their calves had become stranded in the St.

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This Georgia woman is about to get her own superhero movie after she came to the rescue of a doe in distress-not once, but twice in just a matter of minutes.

Chloe Dorsey had been out for a morning jog in Stone Mountain Park last week when she came across a deer that had gotten its hips stuck in between the bars of a metal fence.

Since she was unable to help the critter push through the rungs, Dorsey managed to pull the two poles apart so it could run free.

To Dorsey's exasperation, however, the doe only ran several hundred more feet before it got stuck in between the bars of yet another fence.

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"You need to learn how to jump, boo!" chides Dorsey as she hikes over to the doe once more. "What is gonna happen when I'm not here?"

When the second fence proves to be more difficult to pry apart, Dorsey becomes increasingly nervous about the deer's fate-but she still continues to persevere.

After pulling at the bars several more times, millimeter by millimeter, Dorsey jumps over the fence-and although her landing may not have been the most graceful hurtle in history, it startles the deer just enough for it to successfully run away from the loosened fence poles.

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As the liberated doe rejoins the rest of the herd nearby, Dorsey jokingly yells after them: "Y'all need to show her how to jump!"

Since publishing the videos to social media, Dorsey has become an internet sensation. She also wrote that she was more than happy to help the distressed animal, although she explains that had only been cracking jokes about the deer's plight out of anxiety for its freedom.

"The second time was more frightening than the first. We were both scared for each other...!" she wrote on Instagram. "I'm so happy I was at the right place at the right time!"

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Watch 'Superhero' Woman Rescue Trapped Deer From Not One, But Two Different Fences in a Matter of Minutes

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This Georgia woman is about to get her own superhero movie after she came to the rescue of a doe in distress-not once, but twice in just a matter of minutes. Chloe Dorsey had been out for a morning jog in Stone Mountain Park last week when she came across a deer that had gotten its hips stuck in between the bars of a metal fence.

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We all have 24 hours in a day, but some people spend their time better than others. Soldiers with the Australian Army have been using their downtime to help rescued koalas.

The soldiers from the Army's 9th brigade have been cuddling koalas during their feeding time at Cleland Wildlife Park, near the city of Adelaide, according to a post on the brigade's Facebook page. The koalas were transported there from Kangaroo Island, which was devastated by the bushfires that ravaged the continent in recent months.

"16 Regiment Emergency Support Force have been using their rest periods to lend a helping hand at the Cleland Wildlife Park," the post said, "supporting our furry friends during feeding time and by building climbing mounts inside the park. A great morale boost for our hard working team in the Adelaide Hills."

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Kangaroo Island has been called "Noah's Ark" because of its unique ecology, BBC News reports. However, there are now fears Kangaroo Island may never fully recover from the wildfires.

Sam Mitchell, who runs the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, said that as flames approached last month, most people evacuated - but his family couldn't leave the animals behind.

"You can't move 800 animals including water buffaloes, ostriches and cassowaries [an ostrich-like bird]," he told BBC News. "We decided that if we can't move them we'll see if we can save them. We had the army helping us. Somehow, we were spared. It burnt right around us."

It is estimated that half of the 50,000 koalas on Kangaroo Island died in the fires. Many of those that survived were brought to the wildlife park, where a makeshift clinic was set up, BBC News reports.

Twenty-eight koalas from the island were then moved to Cleland Wildlife Park on the mainland. The park says they came from the western end of the island, "where most, if not all, of their habitat has been lost in the recent bushfires."

At first the koalas were kept in quarantine, but now they are able to go into enclosures - and the army is helping with that, too. Soldiers helped build climbing structures for the koalas to use in their new home, as seen in their Facebook posts.

MP Vickie Chapman posted a video of the soldiers helping build the koalas' enclosures.

Cleland Wildlife Park has just received another sixteen koalas rescued from Kangaroo Island, taking the total up to 28. These koalas will form part of a disease-free insurance population and will be housed in a new enclosure built with the assistance of the Australian Defence Force. Check out the video of the new residents --- --- Australian Army | Defence Australia
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The koalas from Kangaroo Island are special because they are free of chlamydia and have low rates of an infection called KORV, two diseases which plague many koalas in Australia, according to the National Parks and Wildlife Services of South Australia.

The group of koalas brought to Cleland will form part of a disease-free insurance population and will help researchers learn more about the diseases that usually affect koalas.

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Australian soldiers spend their downtime caring for koalas rescued from the bushfires

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We all have 24 hours in a day, but some people spend their time better than others. Soldiers with the Australian Army have been using their downtime to help rescued koalas. The soldiers from the Army's 9th brigade have been cuddling koalas during their feeding time at Cleland Wildlife Park, near the city of Adelaide, according to a post on the brigade's Facebook page.

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HOPE MILLS, NC Craig Williams was worried this past weekend about his brother Chris when Hurricane Matthew dumped a deluge of rain on North Carolina and flooded Chris' hometown of Hope Mills.

Craig, however, was in Texas, and wasn't sure what to do.

CBS Greensboro affiliate WFMY reports that as Craig scrolled through Twitter, looking at the hashtag #HopeMills, he unknowingly stumbled across a photo of Chris' neighborhood.

The picture had been taken by a drone operator working under the Twitter handle @ImSoFirst, and Craig shared it with Chris, joking that at least it wasn't his house.

Turns out the home to the far right of the photo with the blue shutter was in fact Chris' house, and that Chris was still trapped inside, a pair of facts that Craig said later startled him.

Craig, who is all the way in Texas, immediately asked the man who took the drone picture if he could help his brother, who is a Navy veteran with a dog named Lana who cannot swim.

The drone operator then returned to the scene and flagged down a FEMA crew, who rescued Chris and Lana.

Just glad everyone is safe even if the house looks a total loss at this point unbelieve how damaging this was #HurricaneMatthew #HopeMills https://t.co/2nHSKbNyHy
- Craig Williams (@security_craig) October 10, 2016

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Man in Texas saves his brother and dog in N.C. via Twitter

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HOPE MILLS, NC Craig Williams was worried this past weekend about his brother Chris when Hurricane Matthew dumped a deluge of rain on North Carolina and flooded Chris' hometown of Hope Mills. Craig, however, was in Texas, and wasn't sure what to do.

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BROOKLINE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts boy is being credited with quick action that may have saved his baby brother's life, CBS Boston station WBZ reported.

Brothers Ben Doctoroff, 10, and Joshy, 8, were at home Tuesday with their babysitter and tutor when baby Zach choked on a piece of mango. Ben called 911 and handed the phone over to the tutor, who emphasized the seriousness of what was happening.

"He's not coughing at all, and he's not breathing," the tutor told the dispatcher.

Ben wasn't waiting and ran out of the house.

"I didn't have time to get my shoes on," said Ben.

He ran in his bare feet two blocks to someone he trusted - crossing guard Richard Malley.

"He comes down and says, 'my brother is choking. Can you come and help,'" said Malley.

He ran after Ben back to the house. By then first responders were already there. Zach was rushed to the hospital and underwent surgery.

Now, as the family prepares for Zach's first birthday on Friday, Ben had some ideas on the menu.

"He likes fruits, not mangoes anymore," said Ben.

His parents credit him, in part, with saving their youngest son.

"He is a calm and cool kid and just knew what to do," their mom Cina Doctoroff said.

When asked if he's hero, Ben smiled and said, "Kind of."

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BROOKLINE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts boy is being credited with quick action that may have saved his baby brother's life, CBS Boston station WBZ reported. Brothers Ben Doctoroff, 10, and Joshy, 8, were at home Tuesday with their babysitter and tutor when baby Zach choked on a piece of mango.

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WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y. -- A retired detective with the New York Police Department has drowned after saving a 12-year-old boy struggling in the surf off a beach in Puerto Rico.

The New York Post reports that 44-year-old Jose Rosario was vacationing with his family when he saw the boy struggling Saturday in rough waters off Playa de Jobos, on the island's northern coast 65 miles west of San Juan.

Relatives say Rosario got the boy onto a rock but then was swept out to sea by a wave. Rosario's body was recovered Monday.

The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports that Rosario and his family lived for more than a decade in Washingtonville, 55 miles north of New York City.

He retired after more than 20 years with the NYPD.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

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WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y. -- A retired detective with the New York Police Department has drowned after saving a 12-year-old boy struggling in the surf off a beach in Puerto Rico. The New York Post reports that 44-year-old Jose Rosario was vacationing with his family when he saw the boy struggling Saturday in rough waters off Playa de Jobos, on the island's northern coast 65 miles west of San Juan.

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A 27-year-old man is being hailed as a hero after he stripped down to his underwear and dove into a freezing river to save a drowning deer last week.

Marc Headon and his colleague Jamie Toyne had been driving home from work through Saxilby, England when they spotted a pair of ears floating on the surface of a nearby canal.

After they parked their car and got a closer look, they saw that there was an exhausted deer in the water.

Without hesitation, Headon took off his clothes and plunged into the river. As Toyne cheered him on and filmed the rescue mission from the bank, Headon swam out to the deer, put his arm around its torso, and gently towed it back to the riverbank.

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Toyne briefly stopped filming the event so he could help Headon pull the deer up onto dry land - but he managed to catch a clip of Headon hauling the shivering deer to its feet so he could keep it warm and soothe its nerves.

Headon, who works as a painter, reportedly stayed in his underwear for 40 minutes so he could use his clothing to keep the deer warm until rescuers arrived.

Shortly after the deer was taken in for treatment, the two workmen received a phone call from an animal rescuer thanking them for successfully saving the young deer's life.

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After Man Saved Drowning Deer From Freezing River, He Used His Own Clothes to Keep It Warm for 40 Minutes

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CLEVELAND - An Ohio school bus driver is being hailed as a hero after tossing a child out of the way of a rolling bus Tuesday morning before the vehicle rolled over the driver herself and she was killed.

"She sacrificed her own life to save the life of this 10-year-old girl," said Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards.

The bus driver has been identified as 51-year-old Laura Zborowski of Akron.

Edwards said the bus pulled up beside Middlebury Academy in Akron and Zborowski asked the students to perform routine evacuation drills. The students, about 40 ranging from kindergartners to eighth-graders, first exited the bus at the front and lined up single file on the sidewalk as instructed. They then got back on the bus and exited the rear emergency exit, Edwards said.

The 10-year-old girl, the last to exit, was climbing out the back of the bus when the vehicle started rolling backward, Edwards said. Zborowski threw the girl onto the tree lawn and then the bus rolled over Zborowski.

"I don't think she had time to react," Edwards said.

The bus came to a stop after rolling into a tree, Edwards said.

"She was amazing,'' said Brandi Goostre, who spoke with CBS Action 19 News in Akron, Ohio. "It takes a strong person to do that. It makes you think to yourself, would you be brave enough to do that."

Zborowski worked for a private bus company, Cincinnati-based Petermann, a subsidiary of National Express Corp. Zborowski was pronounced dead at a hospital about two hours after the 8:10 a.m. accident.

Middlebury Academy and the Akron school district sent grief counselors to the charter school.

"Our focus is making sure kids feel safe and supportive and to get whatever resources we can into the school immediately," school executive director Joe Palmer said.

Edwards said the Ohio State Highway Patrol will examine the mechanics of the bus to determine what caused it to roll backward. National Express spokeswoman Molly Hart said the Warrenville, Illinois, company is working with local authorities and conducting its own investigation.

A website for Petermann said the company transports 50,000 Ohio children each school day.

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CLEVELAND - An Ohio school bus driver is being hailed as a hero after tossing a child out of the way of a rolling bus Tuesday morning before the vehicle rolled over the driver herself and she was killed. "She sacrificed her own life to save the life of this 10-year-old girl," said Akron police Lt.

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This compassionate veterinarian has spent the last nine years treating homeless people's pets across California.

Dr. Kwane Stewart first started his labor of love back in 2011 when he was left heartbroken by the amount of animals being surrendered to his veterinary clinic during the recession. As more and more people lost their homes, more and more pet owners opted to turn their furry companions over to a shelter than allow them to be homeless.

Stewart then brought his veterinary supplies to a soup kitchen event so he could treat some of the homeless pets around Modesto, California.

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"About 25% of our homeless population own a pet, and I knew that if I set up a table at a soup kitchen I could help a small group of animals," Stewart told GoFundMe. "So that's what I did. I called over anyone who was holding their pet and told them I'd take a look and vaccinate or treat their pet if I could."

Upon successfully treating 15 animals in a single day, Stewart knew he had found his purpose.

He has since devoted his spare time to wandering through alleyways and city streets up and down the west coast so he can treat homeless people's pets-and he has helped heal more than 400 animals.

Despite how many dogs and cats can easily be treated with the supplies in his veterinary bag, however, some of the animals required more intensive surgeries and operations.

Back in September, Stewart created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his mission-and to date, he has raised $29,000 to pay for animal treatments. He was also officially named the GoFundMe Hero of February.

"I don't ever want to have to turn anybody away," he says. "The look on people's faces when they get their pets back, especially after a surgery or a life-saving procedure-those are moments I'll remember forever."

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This compassionate veterinarian has spent the last nine years treating homeless people's pets across California. Dr. Kwane Stewart first started his labor of love back in 2011 when he was left heartbroken by the amount of animals being surrendered to his veterinary clinic during the recession.

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'Muslim Spider-Man' who saved four-year-old will get French citizenship

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When blizzard-like conditions struck Ohio Saturday, causing a number of crashes across the state, one teenager went "over and above" to save a stranger's life.

Dalton Surbey, a 17-year-old high school junior from Montpelier in Northwest Ohio, is being called a hero after pulling a 73-year-old man to safety after a multi-car accident, despite having just been hit by a truck.

According to The Bryan Times and Ohio State Patrol Sgt. Michael McClain, Surbey had stopped his car behind an accident during whiteout conditions on Ohio 576. Duane Ward, 73, had been rear ended by another car. Another car then struck Surbey's in a second crash. Both Surbey and Ward stepped out of their cars to check on the other drivers.

Then a third crash: A black Ford Ranger truck struck one of the cars, and then hit Surbey and Ward, inflicting what McClain described as "pretty serious injuries."

"I was knocked to the ground and could not get out of the way," Ward later recalled, according to The Bryan Times. "I couldn't move. I thought I was going to get run over."

Ward had suffered a broken pelvis and tailbone. Surbey, it was later discovered, had fractured three vertebrae. Despite his injuries, Surbey sprang into action.

"I felt some pain when I stood up," he told the paper. "Then I heard him scream and I started looking for him... He was in the opposite lane and I thought, 'I can't let him stay there.'"

Surbey apologized as he moved Ward, knowing he was in pain, but insisted: "I have to get you out of the road."

Surbey laid Ward in a ditch by the side of the road and then "tried to make sure no one else was hurt," he said.

When Sgt. McClain arrived at the scene, Ward was still lying by the ditch, in the care of paramedics.

Had Ward stayed laying in the road, McClain said, he would have been in "imminent danger." Surbey had quite possibly saved his life.

"He went back into harm's way to assist Mr. Ward," McClain said of Surbey in an interview with CBS News. "This young man, I would say he went over and above."

According to The Bryan Times, Ward is convinced he likely owes his life to Surbey.

"If he would not have been there, I probably wouldn't be here," Ward told the paper. "He could have been hit again, but he helped me. ... Certainly, he is a hero."

Surbey, a basketball player for Montpelier High School, is out of the hospital, but said he thinks it will be a while until he can return to sports. For his part, he was just an average kid trying to do the right thing.

"I don't expect people to consider me a hero," he told the paper. "I just thought he was in trouble and the last thing I wanted was for him to get hurt worse."

In total, seven vehicles were involved in what amounted to three separate crashes.
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When blizzard-like conditions struck Ohio Saturday, causing a number of crashes across the state, one teenager went "over and above" to save a stranger's life. Dalton Surbey, a 17-year-old high school junior from Montpelier in Northwest Ohio, is being called a hero after pulling a 73-year-old man to safety after a multi-car accident, despite having just been hit by a truck.

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NEWPORT, Oregon -- An alert Oregon trooper averted a tragedy when he spotted a runaway 2-year-old running down the middle of a highway. The tot had slipped away from his parents at a nearby community center. KOIN's Amy Frazier has the story.

Dashcam video obtained by KOINs shows Lincoln County deputy Jeremy Gautney spotting the 2-year-old boy running on Highway 101 outside Newport on January 9.

Gautney was headed south on Highway 101 on his regular patrol.

"I was shocked because I thought it was like an animal at first, and then I noticed it was a child," Gautney told KOIN on Thursday. "I guess I was shocked there was a child in the middle of that highway. It's like the main highway for the Oregon coast."

The deputy driving noticed the boy running in his lane and quickly stopped to rescue him.

His frantic parents were nearby searching for him. They had been cleaning up after a gathering at a nearby community center when the boy ran out the door and onto the highway.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office released the dashcam video in an effort to remind drivers to be alert at all times. They urge drivers to refrain from texting and using cellphones while driving.

"It sure opened my eyes," the deputy said.

No criminal charges were filed against the parents.

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NEWPORT, Oregon -- An alert Oregon trooper averted a tragedy when he spotted a runaway 2-year-old running down the middle of a highway. The tot had slipped away from his parents at a nearby community center. KOIN's Amy Frazier has the story.

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DENHAM SPRINGS, La. -- In Baton Rouge last month, David Phung -- a land surveyor by trade -- demonstrated he's pretty good in the water, too -- saving a dog and her owner from floodwaters.

This week, all three were reunited.

In the middle of August's historic Louisiana flood, 27-year-old Phung jumped in the raging waters in Baton Rouge to rescue a woman in a red car sinking to her certain death.

"She had gotten into a deep part of the water and that's where you see that the car started to sink and she was actually about to be in real trouble," said Phung.

In the chaos, Phung managed to pull 53-year-old Haley Brouillette out to safety -- one of many rescues he made that week, as part of the Cajun River rescue squad. He also rescued her dog.

Brouillette had just gotten out of the hospital after kidney surgery. She was on her way to pick up medication when she drove into the floodwaters with her trusted dog Sassy.

"I was more scared for her than anything -- more scared for her," said Brouillette.

A month after her brush with death, Brouillette is still homeless. Her street, washed away with the floodwaters.

This week she was reunited with the stranger who rescued her. He brought her supplies, and dog treats for Sassy.

"I think it is divine intervention I believe that in my heart and my soul," she said.

Proving the only thing that can match Mother Nature's worst is human nature's best.

"It's just who we are in Louisiana -- we help people in times of need," said Phung. "I was put in that place to help her out."

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PARIS (Reuters) - France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched.

The video went viral and Gassama, who has been nicknamed "Spider-Man" for reaching the boy in the nick of time, was swiftly granted a meeting at the Elysee Palace.

"I did it because it was a child," French newspaper Le Parisien quoted Gassama as saying. "I climbed .... Thank God I saved him."

Macron congratulated Gassama for "an exceptional act" and said France would give him a job in the emergency services.

"We'll obviously be setting all your papers straight and if you wish it, we will start the process of naturalization so that you can become French," he added.

Ministers said the citizenship process would be sped up, although Gassama can't legally be granted it right away.

As elsewhere in Europe, immigration from Africa and the Middle East has fixated French public opinion in the last few years, fueling the rise of far-right parties such as the National Front.

Macron, who had been criticized by left-wing voters for taking a tougher stance on immigration since his election, may also have sought to send a message to Socialist voters by signaling a more welcoming attitude to a deserving migrant.

Gassama told Macron he tried to cross the Mediterranean in March 2014 to reach Italy, but was caught by police.

Europe has faced a migrant crisis since 2015 following wars in Libya and Syria and more than 1 million people from Africa and the Middle East have tried to reach the continent via Turkey or by sea.

Macron's government has said it wants to be both firm and fair on immigration but it took a tougher stance lately, with parliament approving a bill that tightens asylum rules.

"What you have done corresponds with what firefighters do; if this fits your wishes, you could join the firefighters' corps so that you can do (such acts) on a daily basis," he said.

Adam Thiam, a Malian analyst and former presidential advisor told Reuters that Gassama's act had been praised in his home country.

"There is great pride here in Mali," Thiam said. "But while (Gassama) gets the honors, there are ... Malian citizens under the threat of being expelled by the French government."

Gassama told Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo by phone on Sunday he arrived from Mali a few months ago and wished to stay in France.

"I replied that his heroic gesture was an example for all citizens and that the City of Paris will obviously be keen to support him in his efforts to settle in France," Hidalgo said.

The boy's father was arrested and told police he had left his son alone to go shopping and returned home later than planned because he was playing Pokemon Go, an enhanced reality game, on his smartphone.

"His behavior constitutes an offense, failing to honor parental responsibilities, which carries a possible sentence of two years in jail," Molins said.

Gassama is being offered a spell of community service work at the Paris emergency services. An official website says the work pays about 480 euros ($558) a month for a fixed 11-month period.

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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- This time, Mel Heckman was the one who needed help getting to the shore along Pearl Harbor's battleship row.

"This is it. This is the exact spot where it happened 75 years ago," Heckman said.

On Dec. 7, 1941, he was the one giving help.

"We saved as many men as we could," he said.

At 93, this was Heckman's wish: To return for the first time with his daughter, grandchildren, even a great grandson, to the place he was standing as Japanese planes attacked.

"I remember every moment like it happened yesterday," Heckman said. "When the Japanese came in, the sky was black. There were so many of them."

Bombs rained down as Heckman was struck by shrapnel in his back. "I saw flames, flames, flames and explosions," he said.

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The battleships Arizona and Oklahoma were hit right in front of him. The water was on fire.

Heckman helped rescue sailors swimming through the flames.

"They went like this," Heckman said waiving his arms, "and knocked the flames away."

A lot of those sailors were 18 or 19 years old. "Kids," Heckman said, "Like my grandson right there."

The story had inspired grandson Josh to join the Navy, but this time it had the power he did not expect.

"Being on a ship, I see these people and I can see them with my eye. I couldn't imagine," Josh said.

Heckman's daughter Joanne had also heard the story before, but not like this.

"I can see it happening. I can hear all the, all the bombs and the commotion," Joanne said.

"My grandfather is not only a great American hero. He's my hero," said Robert, another grandson.

And he is being hailed as a hero at this week's commemorations, as is every other surviving Pearl Harbor veteran on this 75th anniversary.

As the number of survivors steadily declines, their nation and their families pledge always to remember.

But the story of Pearl Harbor will never be told as vividly once those who were there can no longer tell it.

Heckman's family trip to Pearl Harbor for the 75th anniversary commemoration was facilitated by Wish of a Lifetime, a Colorado based organization that helps seniors (especially military veterans) fulfill lifelong dreams. To learn more about the organization, visit http://wishofalifetime.org/.

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. - A fire that swept through the home of a Massachusetts firefighter was prevented from harming anyone thanks to the quick thinking of a 6-year-old girl.

The blaze began just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday and spread quickly through the home in Swampscott, on Massachusetts's North Shore, about 15 miles from Boston, tearing through its roof.

But the firefighter's daughter was awakened when a fan in her room unexpectedly cut off and she smelled smoke. She warned her parents that the fire was spreading and along with their two sons, they narrowly escaped the burning house.

"Probably with just no more than a minute to spare they got out," Swampscott Fire Chief Kevin Breen told CBS Boston.

"It was near her bedroom, so she would have been, I don't even want to think about it," the girl's mother, Lori Pierro, said. "If she didn't know what to do, then...I don't know what would have happened," Pierro said.

The family's fire evacuation plan helped to hasten their escape from the burning house.

"We're all safe. That's the most important thing. Things can be replaced but your family can't. And we are all safe," Pierro said.

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. - A fire that swept through the home of a Massachusetts firefighter was prevented from harming anyone thanks to the quick thinking of a 6-year-old girl. The blaze began just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday and spread quickly through the home in Swampscott, on Massachusetts's North Shore, about 15 miles from Boston, tearing through its roof.

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NEWPORT, Oregon -- An alert Oregon trooper averted a tragedy when he spotted a runaway 2-year-old running down the middle of a highway. The tot had slipped away from his parents at a nearby community center. KOIN's Amy Frazier has the story.

Dashcam video obtained by KOINs shows Lincoln County deputy Jeremy Gautney spotting the 2-year-old boy running on Highway 101 outside Newport on January 9.

Gautney was headed south on Highway 101 on his regular patrol.

"I was shocked because I thought it was like an animal at first, and then I noticed it was a child," Gautney told KOIN on Thursday. "I guess I was shocked there was a child in the middle of that highway. It's like the main highway for the Oregon coast."

The deputy driving noticed the boy running in his lane and quickly stopped to rescue him.

His frantic parents were nearby searching for him. They had been cleaning up after a gathering at a nearby community center when the boy ran out the door and onto the highway.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office released the dashcam video in an effort to remind drivers to be alert at all times. They urge drivers to refrain from texting and using cellphones while driving.

"It sure opened my eyes," the deputy said.

No criminal charges were filed against the parents.

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NEWPORT, Oregon -- An alert Oregon trooper averted a tragedy when he spotted a runaway 2-year-old running down the middle of a highway. The tot had slipped away from his parents at a nearby community center. KOIN's Amy Frazier has the story.

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The mother of two children had just put her children in the car when the car slipped into the harbor. Together with her neighbor she could have just saved her children. This is happend in my livingplace:Medemblik

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Medemblik - Snel zal ze het niet vergeten, Gea Wolfslag uit Medemblik, ze had haar kinderen net in de auto gedaan toen deze door de gladheid de Pekelharinghaven in gleed. Door snel handelen van Gea en een omstander konden de 2 kinderen snel uit de auto worden gehaald.
Hart van Nederland(sbs6) stuurde een cameraploeg naar Medemblik om de supermama te interviewen. Dit interview kunt u op de website van Hart van Nederland bekijken. Het is niet de eerste keer, en het zal ook niet de laatste keer zijn dat er een auto in de Pekelharinghaven duikt. Vorig jaar zelfs 2x vlak achter elkaar.

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Gea Wolfslag is een supermoeder. Samen met buurman redde zij haar kinderen.

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Medemblik - Snel zal ze het niet vergeten, Gea Wolfslag uit Medemblik, ze had haar kinderen net in de auto gedaan toen deze door de gladheid de Pekelharinghaven in gleed. Door snel handelen van Gea en een omstander konden de 2 kinderen snel uit de auto worden gehaald.

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SACRAMENTO -- A person trying to do a good deed for a stranded driver lost their life in a crash on Interstate 80 in California reports CBS Sacramento.

The accident happened around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to California Highway Patrol. A car ran out of gas and stalled in the westbound express lanes. Another driver, now being called the good Samaritan, stopped on the eastbound side to try and help the driver get some gas.

After helping the driver get gas the good Samaritan dropped the driver back off at their car. The good Samaritan was then rear-ended by another on-coming car, reports CBS Sacramento. According to California Highway Patrol, the driver who rear-ended the good Samaritan's car was an off-duty police officer.

The good Samaritan's car burst into flames and the person inside died.

Person killed in the crash has not yet been identified.

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SACRAMENTO -- A person trying to do a good deed for a stranded driver lost their life in a crash on Interstate 80 in California reports CBS Sacramento. The accident happened around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to California Highway Patrol. A car ran out of gas and stalled in the westbound express lanes.

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Australia and koala's are kind of cool. So, here's this news article about Australian teens saving koala's.

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As the Australian bushfires continue to burn, a shocking piece of information appeared: since September, over 500 million animals have died because of the flames. Especially hard-hit was the koala population, with many of these animals dying in the calamity.

However, the situation in Australia showed us that people are willing to step up and be the everyday heroes that we need. 19-year-old Micah and 18-year-old Caleb are two such heroes and they're being praised all over the net. These two cousins drove around Kangaroo Island, rescuing koalas and putting them in their car.

When you're done with this post, have a read through Bored Panda's articles about a dog who finds and rescues koalas and Patsy the wonder dog who saved a flock of sheep from the flames. Bored Panda spoke to local Steve, whose cousins drove around Kangaroo Island in a car saving koalas, about the current situation in Australia. Steve remains cautiously optimistic that the wildlife will recover, in time.

"The koala situation is certainly dire, but I remain cautiously optimistic. The fires destroyed a lot of their habitat, but since their primary food source is one that germinates through fire I think we'll see nature bounce back rather quickly. That's my hope anyway. The aim is to keep the existing population fed and cared for in the meantime," he said about the Australian koala population. Scroll down for the full interview.

Cousins Micah (19) and Caleb (18) drove around rescuing as many koalas as they could

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Image credits: Alternative 666

The teens plan to look after all their new koala buddies until they're healthy and it's safe to let them back into the wild. According to Micah and Caleb, around 60 percent of all the koalas they came across had, unfortunately, burned to death.

"This is our little koala rescue. Just trying to collect as many live ones as we can," one of the cousins can be heard saying in a video clip they shot, showing the interior of their car.

The guys plan to look after the koalas

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According to Steve, the locals in the midst of the natural disaster are "working tirelessly to help the situation."

"Some, my mother included, are going and cooking meals for them, others are rescuing wildlife. There have also been a number who have risked the fires to attempt to save their homes with mixed success. My grandparents, for example, were able to save their home. They obviously put themselves in harm's way by doing so and made the job of the firefighters harder, but it's hard for some people to just let their whole world burn down."

"My grandparents bought the home to renovate into their retirement home and have spent years remodeling. They were unable to leave it to chance and while successful their efforts are seen negatively by a number of us," he added.

Steve explained that he's sad about the ordeal his country and community are going through. "I grew up on Kangaroo Island and a very large portion is now in ashes. It's disheartening to see the level of destruction and be powerless to stop it."

"The entire situation seems to have been preventable to a large degree. Recent changes by the government are perceived by many as being the culprit on what has been the worst fires for a long time. Previously, it was common practice to 'back burn' so as to mitigate the risks of fire, but that practice was halted and as such provided the fires with more burning material and made it easier to spread."

He continued: "Australian trees are prone to fire because they germinate through fire, which is the same issue that California has. If these regulations are not returned to common usage these fires may become a recurring feature of Australian life."

Check out their video of the koalas in their car

The world has done little else but talk about the devastation in Australia (and the possibility of WWIII) in recent weeks. In a previous interview with Bored Panda, Ben Jameson who lives on the Gold Coast, near Brisbane, told us that his friends and family are "coming together, donating money where possible, helping each other out, going to communities to help clean up. Like, just regular people. Not emergency services or defense force. Just normal people."

"A university in Sydney estimates that near 500 million animals have been killed by the fires since September. Half a billion. So many of our animals, wombats, koalas, crocs, platypus, etc. are endangered or threatened species. I don't think people understand the scale of that number. I'm not sure if our country's ecosystem and biosphere will recover from this, I really don't," Ben told us.

Meanwhile, Sam Mitchell, co-owner of the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, told the Guardian that people were delivering injured animals to them, including about 50 koalas.

"At least a third of what has been brought in we've had to euthanize, unfortunately," Mitchell broke the sad news. "We are seeing many burns to hands and feet-fingernails melted off. For some, the burns are just too extreme."

Internet users praised the teens for their selfless deed

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19-year-old Micah and 18-year-old Caleb drove around Kangaroo Island, rescuing koalas and putting them in their car. The teens plan to look after all their new koala buddies until they're healthy and it's safe to let them back into the wild.