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These two Australian police officers, Sergeants Christopher Russo and Kirby Tonkin, are heroes because they saved a kangaroo from drowning to death. They show heroism because they got into the water to save the kangaroo, unlike others who may not have tried to save the kangaroo themselves. Although they saved an animal and not a human, they believed that every life was worth saving, and did something that shows that no matter the size, race, or kind, every life is worth saving.

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Two Australian police officers are being hailed as heroes after they dove into some dicey ocean waves in order to rescue a drowning kangaroo last weekend.

Sergeants Christopher Russo and Kirby Tonkin were called to the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria when a beachgoer spotted the troubled marsupial struggling in the surf.

The good Samaritan was able to pull the kangaroo from the waves before calling the police and waiting for help to arrive - but just as the cops were approaching the beach, the confused roo got spooked and took off into the ocean once more.

Though the animal was only under the water for a short amount of time, it quickly resurfaced with a great deal of foam coming out of its nose, a clear sign that it was drowning.

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Russo grabbed the animal's tail while Tonkin cradled its head and they both carried the roo to shore. Once it was safely on land, they conducted CPR until the animal started breathing and regained a heartbeat.

The Victoria police force published footage of the rescue to Facebook where it has quickly garnered thousands of positive responses from appreciative viewers.

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The officers simply told Australian news outlets that it was a "good feeling" to have successfully rescued the roo since "every life is worth saving and we just did what we could."

The Victoria police force added that "the roo is currently being cared for but is said to be in good spirits and lucky to be alive given the amount of salt water he inhaled, thanks to his rescuers."

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Not all heroes wear capes - but according to the footage of these two rescuers diving into the ocean last weekend, they might wear police badges.

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Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian , successfully rescues 669 Jewish children from the torturous concentration camps of the Holocast.

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Heroes try to help other people even if it costs them money or their time.This is an example because Chris Stout builds homes for war veterans currently still going on to build homes and helping veterans find suitable jobs.

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Young veterans, led by CNN Hero Chris Stout, build tiny homes for homeless vets and help vets with job placement and other services.

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58 year old, Jyoti Verma, was alerted about a fire that was across from her apartment, and she quickly reacted and her first instinct was to help. She had used a ladder to try to get the people in the building out and onto her apartment terrace. She was able to get 20 people out of the building and into her apartment, safely.

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A 58-year-old Indian woman is being hailed as a hero after her quick-thinking helped to save 20 people from a factory fire on Monday morning.

Jyoti Verma was making breakfast at 6:30AM when her neighbor alerted her to a fire that had erupted in a building that was adjacent to her Delhi apartment.

Upon rushing to her window, she saw 10 people crying for help from the third story as smoke billowed from the windows of the lower floors.

Verma initially thew one end of her sari to the workers so that the could climb from the window down to the safety of her terrace. Because they were too afraid to risk the 15-foot distance, one man jumped onto her terrace from the window of the factory.

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Not wanting anyone else to injure themselves by jumping, Verma rushed inside to find something more useful. In the midst of her apartment, she found a small bamboo ladder.

With the help of a neighbor, Verma propped up the ladder onto the roof of her terrace so that it stretched across to the factory window. Over the course of the next half hour, twenty workers were able to crawl to safety.

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According to one of the workers, the owner of the illegal factory locks the gates to the building every night in order to prevent theft. If it had not been for Verma's heroic ingenuity, the employees may not have been able to escape.

"We cannot come up with words to thank them (Verma and her neighbor). For us they were God," a 21-year-old worker told the Hindustan Times.
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A 58-year-old Indian woman is being hailed as a hero after her quick-thinking helped to save 20 people from a factory fire on Monday morning. Jyoti Verma was making breakfast at 6:30AM when her neighbor alerted her to a fire that had erupted in a building that was adjacent to her Delhi apartment.

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This is an example of a hero because he risked his life to help save people.

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LIVE VIDEO Officials in Chico give update on Butte County's deadly Camp Fire

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A nurse is being offered a new truck after his was scorched while he helped patients get to safety in the midst of the Camp Fire.

"It was just constant explosions," Allyn Pierece told ABC News of his escape from the flames, "Cars are trying to go around the side and bursting into flames, and people are getting out of their cars and running down the middle of the road."

Pierce told ABC all of the patients got out of the hospital thanks to the efforts of himself and others. He said he made two trips to get others to safety.

After his harrowing ordeal, Pierce shared about the damage to his truck on social media, thanking Toyota and writing, "This truck literally saved my life today."

Pierce's hardship didn't end when he escaped with his life. He posted an update on Sunday night to share a GoFundMe page someone set up for him, writing that he'd lost his house and "I don't know where my job sits" since the hospital was affected by the fire.

Toyota then chimed in on the original post on both Facebook and Instagram, writing, "Don't worry about your truck, we're honored to get you a new one!"

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This is an act of heroism because Nancy saved a complete stranger and she risked her own life in order to save someone she didn't know. She stepped forward and had to be brave in order to save someone.

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A 34-year-old hiker was in dire straits, but she was rescued thanks to a life-saving guardian angel-a stranger who couldn't stop worrying about her.

Nancy Abell was out for a day hike in the mountains of Washington state in October when she first spotted a hiker in a red jacket heading north towards Canada without snowshoes.

Katharina Groene traveled from Munich determined to hike the entire 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail after feeling like she'd lost her faith in humanity-the exact storyline in the Reese Witherspoon movie , based on the book written by Cheryl Strayed, which inspired her long hike.

Katharina started at the trailhead, journeyed north and made it all the way to the Glacier Peak Wilderness: an alpine mountain range in Washington that is considered the hardest part of the entire trail.

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Since the area is prone to snow storms, most people try and finish the trail by September - but when October rolled around and Katharina found herself within 200 miles of Canada, she couldn't bear to turn around when she was so close to her goal, despite Nancy's advice to do so.

Katharina and Nancy spent several hours chatting while hiking side-by-side along the trail until they eventually parted ways. Nancy, however, could not stop worrying about the German hiker, so she made sure to check the daily weather forecasts along the trail from her home in Salta, Washington.

Only a few days later, a storm rolled in. Concerned for her new friend, Nancy posted on a local hiker's forum asking if anyone had met a German hiker headed north. Someone reported they had run into her two days previously-but no on had seen her since.

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Nancy couldn't shake the feeling that Katharina was in danger, so she called rescue services and told them about the missing hiker. Since she knew that Groene had planned on hiking 15 miles every day, she calculated how far along the trail the German hiker would likely be based on the weather and how much she was carrying.

Sgt. John Adams of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Unit said, "She told us she would probably be north of Mica Lake but south of the Suiattle River-which ended up being right on."

Sure enough, Groene had slowed to a pace of 7 miles per day trying to reach a ranger's station 30 miles away. She was soaking wet and showing signs of hypothermia and frostbite. She was running out of food and the tarp that had kept her tent dry had blown away in the wind. Her cell phone had lost service by the time she woke up in whiteout conditions.

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She was prepared for the worst-but then suddenly, a rescue helicopter spotted her red jacket based on Nancy's precise calculations. Katharina was saved.

She was invited to stay with Nancy at her home, where the two have become 'Wild' friends-and even though she didn't complete the trail, she got to check off that box: Faith in humanity restored!

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A man named Richard Nares is helping sick childeren to get them to their chemo therapy appointments. For many childeren, getting to their appointments is very difficult. This is very important for many childeren because they are sick, so Nares made a transport and support group for these childeren. Nares actually lost a son to lukemia so this could have inspired him to help other childeren.

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They clean up rivers, build homes for disabled veterans and bring health care to some of the darkest parts of the world.

They help children who are fighting cancer, poverty and a lack of opportunity.

These are the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2013.

For their extraordinary efforts to change the world, each of these everyday people will receive $50,000. They were also recognized at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute," an annual show broadcast globally on CNN.

"I've long admired the CNN Heroes tribute, but even more, the heroes themselves," said Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide. "We are proud to share the stories of these 10 exceptional individuals and to continue one of CNN's most important traditions."

The tribute show, hosted by Anderson Cooper at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, included celebrity presenters and performers. This year's presenters included Grammy Award-winning musician Ne-Yo; comedians Jim Gaffigan and Sarah Silverman; television hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan; and actors Jason Biggs, Alan Cumming, Josh Lucas, Mariska Hargitay, Shay Mitchell, Allison Williams and Jeffrey Wright.

Three-time Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles performed her hit single "Brave."

This was the seventh year CNN has conducted its annual search for CNN Heroes. In those years, the campaign has profiled more than 200 people on CNN and CNN.com.

This year's top 10 were nominated by CNN's global audience and profiled earlier this year on CNN.

At the end of the show, one of the top 10, Chad Pregracke, was named CNN Hero of the Year. He will receive an additional $250,000 for his cause, which is cleaning up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Pregracke was chosen as Hero of the Year through a five-week public vote on CNN.com.

Here are the top 10 Heroes of 2013, in alphabetical order:

Chad Pregracke: Cleaning up America's rivers
Chad Pregracke has made it his life's work to clean up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Since 1998, about 70,000 volunteers have helped Pregracke remove more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 23 rivers across the country. "Picking up garbage, it's tough, miserable and hot," Pregracke said. "We try to make it fun."
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As part of their award package, each top 10 Hero will also receive free organizational training from the Annenberg Foundation, a leading supporter of nonprofits worldwide. The Heroes will participate in a customized version of the Annenberg Alchemy program, which offers practical guidance to help strengthen organizations for long-term success.

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Heros are everyday people who do anything they can to help save peoples lives. For example, Dr. Evan Atar Adahar, used car tools to perform surgery to a baby in South Sudan. Which is heroic because he was willing to save his patients life with anything he could use. He didn't give up and was brave about it.

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A hero doctor who runs a hospital in one of the most dangerous places on Earth has revealed how he's had to improvise surgical equipment using car parts to carry out lifesaving operations.

Lacking even the most basic equipment, the medical facility in Bunj, South Sudan, still manages to carry out more than 50 operations a week, and is the last hope for more than 200,000 people in the war-torn region.

It has no x-ray machines, generators regularly fail and patients are given ketamine before surgery because there is no anaesthetic.

Chief medic Dr Evan Atar Adahar, who only sees his family three times a year, sleeps in a tent on the hospital compound, and at night uses a sewing machine to make surgical thread for the following day's procedures.

Dr Atar - who goes by his middle name - told MirrorOnline that saving lives requires astonishing amount of creativity.

He said: "Even if something is missing, you still have to get the operation done.

"I've had to take the screws from cars because we had nothing to fix the top of tubes for patients during operations.

"And we've used fish hooks to make needles. We can't surrender to the lack of equipment we have."

On another occasion he had to loot an old vehicle for parts to unscrew plates on a patient's bone.

The 52-year-old medic will tomorrow be presented with the UN Refugee Agency's Nansen Award - the UN's top honour given to those who help people fleeing persecution.

Speaking from the UN's office in Geneva, Switzerland, where the presentation will take place, he said he has no intention of quitting, despite the risks he and his staff face.

Providing healthcare in the world's newest country - which only gained independence from Sudan in 2011 - takes incredible bravery, with doctors and nurses regularly abducted and murdered by militias.

Even civilians in the region, where civil war has waged for nearly five years, are armed to the teeth.

More than 100 humanitarian workers have been slaughtered in South Sudan in the past five years, and last summer an armed group attempted to overrun the hospital.

Dr Atar said: "You have to accept living in situations where there's danger, and not everyone can accept that.

"Last July there was violence from the youth of the area, they accused the agencies of not employing them.

"They came to the hospital with guns and we negotiated with them.

"We told them that if they destroy the hospital, who will help them if they need medical help? We're here for everyone, on all sides.

"One of the leaders came and said that no one should target the hospital."

He rarely sees his wife and four children, who live in Nairobi, Kenya - but says he has no intention of quitting the lifesaving work he does in a region where tens of thousands have been displaced.

"I invited my family to come to the hospital and see what I was doing," he said.

"When my wife saw what was going on, she said it was worth the sacrifices."

Before his arrival in Bunj, he ran a hospital in Kurmuk, in Sudan's Blue Nile State, for 14 years before being forced to move because of escalating violence and bombings between rebels and the Khartoum government.

Dr Atar set up a new hospital in a disused health centre in Bunj, where he soon realised the size of the task in hand.

"The day I arrived, on November 22, 2011, I wasn't given a chance to organise myself before a person was brought in with a gunshot wound," he said.

"The room wasn't used for surgery before, it was a pharmacy, but we looked at him and realised it was really necessary to remove the bullet.

"I removed the door and made it into an operating table. The patient survived, and we later employed him at the hospital."

As well as treating patients for deadly conditions including malaria, typhoid and tuberculosis, medics increasingly have to save the lives of people suffering gunshot wounds.

"Civilians have their own guns, and this is the only hospital in the region," Dr Atar said.

Such are the dangers that staff do not venture outside the compound at night, and all patients and visitors are required to lay down their arms when they arrive.

The hospital, which is 600 miles from the country's capital, Juba, has 120 beds and two theatres - although at busy times patients are often forced to double up.

The UN Refugee Agency - which helps fund the hospital - is expecting pressure on the facility to increase still further, with another 12,000 refugees set to arrive in the region this year due to intensified fighting across the border.

But despite the brutal civil war that has engulfed South Sudan, the medic is adament that rival factions can lay down their arms in his lifetime.

Dr Atar, who was born in Torit in the south of what is now South Sudan, said: "Everybody should be working hard to get peace in the country, including the citizens.

"We need to all work for peace."

And he said his workplace is a symbol of what can be achieved, although it is not without its setbacks.

"The hospital is a neutral place, we treat everybody irrespective of who they are."

Unfortunately efforts to house members of rival factions in wards have proved fruitless.

Dr Atar said: "We tried to put them on the same wards, but they stole the property of each group," he rued.

"We later on separated them on different wards, but we continued to tell them that it's not acceptable to act in that way.

"We should accept each other."

On Monday he will be presented with the UN Refugee Agency's top prize in recognition of his work.

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said: "Dr. Atar's work through decades of civil war and conflict is a shining example of profound humanity and selflessness.

"Through his tireless efforts, thousands of lives have been saved, and countless men, women and children provided with a new chance to rebuild a future."

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Ben is a hero because he ran to get help from a trusted crossing guard to help his baby brother from choking.

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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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Jack Mook is a hero because he took two kids that had been in a foster home and adopted them.  He saved them because this foster home had abused them and neglected them. He showed kindness because he took two kids that he didn't know well and took them in from and abusive home.

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PITTSBURGH - Generally speaking, if you're a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, like Jessee and Josh Lyle, the last place you ever want to be is in a courtroom, across the table, from detective Jack Mook.

Mook is a by the book, no nonsense, chew-them-up, spit-'em-out, 22-year veteran of the force.

Outside of work he's a committed bachelor, a man's man, who would never so much as let a Vidalia onion see his soft side.

For fun he hits people. He volunteers at the Steel City Boxing gym, teaching the sport to underprivileged kids.

"Most of the kids who come in this gym are street kids," said Mook. "Many of them have been born into poverty."

Kids like 11-year-old Jessee and his 15-year-old brother Josh. Long before their date in court, Jack had been working with them. He really liked these kids and he knew the feeling was mutual. So when they just stopped showing up at the gym one day, Mook went out and found the older boy.

"And he was asking me about it and then I just cried," added Josh.

What Mook didn't know -- what no one knew until that moment -- was just how bad these kids had it. They were in a foster home with foster parents who Mook says were extremely abusive and neglectful.

"They have had it as worse as any other kid that's ever lived in the city of Pittsburgh, living conditions wise," said Mook. "And I had enough of it."

So Jack Mook took matters into his own hands. He cashed in some favors and got the kids placed in a new home: his. It's been quite an adjustment for him.

"I'm in here trying to learn my culinary skills," Mook said. But that doesn't mean he's not loving it. "Yeah, it's awesome. It's the best thing I ever did in my life."

At least it was the best thing, until the day he went to court and did one better. He adopted the boys, and made them Mooks.

"You're a Mook. Alright? You happy? Good. Now you're going to go home and cut my grass," he told the boys.

After this story first aired in 2014, CBS News got a lot of email -- a surprising amount from women who wanted to go out with this guy.

Mary says she met him in a bar, not by emailing. But she does admit she knew he would be there.

"I am answering honestly," Mary said laughing.

They were married last summer. She came with three of her own, so now Mook and the boys are part of a Brady Bunch -- a family none of them could have ever imagined just a few years ago.

"I thought being single was fun because you don't have any responsibilities. But when you're single, you don't realize what you're missing. I'm glad I let her break through that barrier and take me away from that life," Mook said of his wife.

Sounds like it wasn't just the boys who were rescued.
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PITTSBURGH - Generally speaking, if you're a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, like Jessee and Josh Lyle, the last place you ever want to be is in a courtroom, across the table, from detective Jack Mook. Mook is a by the book, no nonsense, chew-them-up, spit-'em-out, 22-year veteran of the force.

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Homeless man saves a suicidal woman who jumped from a bridge, risking his life . This is an act of heroism because he risked his life to save another.

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Shane Drossard is being hailed as a hero after he risked his own life to save a suicidal woman earlier this week.

The homeless man had been camping out under the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he heard a loud splash at 2AM.

As he listened, he heard a woman's voice coming from the river.

The 35-year-old woman had tried to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge. Though she survived the fall, she got caught in the fast-moving current below.

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Drossard immediately rushed to her aid. According to an interview with WCCO, he got into the water, grabbed the woman's hand, and used his other hand to anchor the two of them to a wall so they wouldn't get swept away by the current.

As Drossard waited for help to arrive, he told the woman that she was beautiful; she had so much to live for; he was there for her; and he was not going to let go of her.

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Finally, an emergency crew arrived on the scene and pulled them both out of the water. The woman was taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment.

Firefighters offered Drossard shelter for the night, but the humble hero insisted on going back to his camp underneath the bridge.

When WCCO asked him why he did what he did, Drossard emotionally responded by saying: "I just wanted to do something good for somebody."

( WATCH the interview below)
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Homeless Man Becomes a Hero After Saving Woman Who Jumped From Bridge

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Andi Traynor is a hero because she made a major decision for someone other than herself and saved Max Montgomery's life. Coincidentally, Traynor was a doctor, so she knew what to do when he collapsed in the sand, but her intuition is enough to call her a hero.

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This Woman Saved a Man's Life After He Had a Heart Attack On Their First Date

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Malala Yousafzai is considered a hero because she her self believes that anyone can be a hero if they want to make the world a better place for everyone. Malala is an example of that because, she fought for rights education rights to make the world a better and healthier place for girls but not only did she do that, she risked her life every time she made a statement or speech about education rights, and to prove that she was shot in the head at the age of 14 by a gun man from Pakistan. After she recovered she still continues to fight for girls education rights. https://myhero.com/M_Yousafzai_ky_US_2017_ul

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Heroes are caring and they risk their lives to save the lives of others. Two Australian Police Officers dove in an ocean to save a drowning Kangaroo because every life matters.

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Two Australian police officers are being hailed as heroes after they dove into some dicey ocean waves in order to rescue a drowning kangaroo last weekend.

Sergeants Christopher Russo and Kirby Tonkin were called to the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria when a beachgoer spotted the troubled marsupial struggling in the surf.

The good Samaritan was able to pull the kangaroo from the waves before calling the police and waiting for help to arrive - but just as the cops were approaching the beach, the confused roo got spooked and took off into the ocean once more.

Though the animal was only under the water for a short amount of time, it quickly resurfaced with a great deal of foam coming out of its nose, a clear sign that it was drowning.

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Russo grabbed the animal's tail while Tonkin cradled its head and they both carried the roo to shore. Once it was safely on land, they conducted CPR until the animal started breathing and regained a heartbeat.

The Victoria police force published footage of the rescue to Facebook where it has quickly garnered thousands of positive responses from appreciative viewers.

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The officers simply told Australian news outlets that it was a "good feeling" to have successfully rescued the roo since "every life is worth saving and we just did what we could."

The Victoria police force added that "the roo is currently being cared for but is said to be in good spirits and lucky to be alive given the amount of salt water he inhaled, thanks to his rescuers."

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Not all heroes wear capes - but according to the footage of these two rescuers diving into the ocean last weekend, they might wear police badges.

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Anaiah Rucker is a hero because she pushed her sister out of the way before she got hit by a truck and got hit by the truck herself.

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To say that nine-year old Anaiah Rucker is a hero is an understatement, because there are truly no words to describe this young girl, who saved her younger sister from sure death, while putting her own life on the line.

February 4th, 2011 began as a typical morning in the Rucker household. After breakfast, Anaiah and her five year-old sister Camry, left for the school bus stop, situated across their house, while their mother watched from the balcony.

It was raining heavily, so both girls had their hoodies on, which is probably the reason they did not notice a truck that was approaching, as they tried to run across the road.

By the time Anaiah saw it from the corner of her eye, it was too late to prevent an impact - However, it was not too late to save her sister from fatal injury. Without giving it a second thought, Anaiah pulled Camry out of harm's way, and ended up bearing the entire brunt of the impact herself.

The nine-year old collapsed on the ground and stopped breathing for a few minutes. Fortunately, Loretta Berriman, a school bus driver who had watched the horrifying event as it unfolded, ran to her rescue and performed CPR, until she felt a heart beat.

The two sisters were rushed to the hospital, where young Camry was declared free from major injury. Anaiah, on the other hand, had broken both her legs, fractured her neck, damaged her spleen and destroyed a kidney.

Surgeons worked for over ten hours to save the big-hearted girl's life, and while they were able to repair her right leg and neck, her left leg was too shattered and had to be amputated the day following her accident. It took a month of rehabilitation before this brave little girl was released from the hospital and brought home to a heroes' welcome by her schoolmates and other residents of Madison.

Despite her severe injuries, Anaiah doesn't believe that she did anything heroic, because if she hadn't taken the hit, her little sister would have probably not survived, which, would have been worse. What an amazing big sister!

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To say that nine-year old Anaiah Rucker is a hero is an understatement, because there are truly no words to describe this young girl, who saved her younger sister from sure death, while putting her own life on the line.

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Temar showed an act of bravery by saving a young girl from a kidnapper. He risked his safety by following the kidnapper in his car even if he could have been greatly hurt by the dangerous man. Temar stated, "I didn't do it for attention. I just wanted to help." This shows that he was being selfless and caring of a girl he didn't even know.

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13 year old kid saves 17 people from Hurricane Harvey with just an air mattress . This is an act of heroism because the 13 year old is risking his life for strangers around his neighborhood. He could've been taken by the storm but , he was determined to save them.
https://people.com/human-interest/quick-thinking-13-year-old-saves-17-people-using-just-an-air-mattress-during-hurricane-harvey/

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Former Giants player, Cole Farrand rescued a man from the top of a burning building, this is an act of heroism because he put his own life at risk to save another.  He noticed a man on top of a burning building, so he grabbed a ladder and saved his life.

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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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Anival is a hero because he had heard children crying in an apartment nearby and instead of leaving he jumped over the fence and helped these children escape the burning building. This shows heroism because he risked his life to save these children.

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A homeless man in Las Vegas has been praised for rescuing two small children from a burning apartment after he heard them crying.

Anival Angulo, 36, rescued the three-year-old girl and 10-month-old boy after he noticed smoke coming from the building.

After walking around the building to investigate the smoke, Mr Angulo heard the children crying and jumped over a locked gate to gain access to the apartment complex, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue services said.

Mr Angulo discovered the three-year-old girl standing near a locked security door in front of the smoke-filled apartment. Authorities said he started pulling on the steel door and was able to bend it upwards, which unlatched the deadbolt and opened the door.

"The little girl ran to him and wrapped her arms around his waist," a spokesperson for the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue services said. "He could see through the smoke the leg of an infant on the floor. He reached down and pulled the infant out. Both of the kids were taken away from the building to a safe area.

"Without the quick action of Angulo, the children would have probably suffered severe smoke inhalation with burns. His action certainly saved the children's life."

The children were treated for minor smoke inhalation at hospital.

Firefighters received multiple calls about an apartment that was on fire with small children trapped inside. They had the fire under control within 10 minutes of arriving at the scene.

The fire has been ruled accidental, and is expected to have started as a cooking fire on the stove that quickly spread across the kitchen.

Authorities said the children were in the living room when the fire started, while their grandfather, who was watching them, was in the back bedroom.

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A homeless man in Las Vegas has been praised for rescuing two small children from a burning apartment after he heard them crying. Anival Angulo, 36, rescued the three-year-old girl and 10-month-old boy after he noticed smoke coming from the building.

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This was an act of heroism because this teachers aid stopped driving a bus in order to save this little boy from choking on a penny which was also risky for her however because she stopped in the middle of the road which is a hazard that could've gone very bad causing a big accident.

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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.

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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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The high school baseball team that lifted a car to save a life, this is an act of heroism because, they put their life at risk. The car could've trapped someone else under the car or someone could've gotten hurt while trying to take the car off that girl.

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Teenagers get a bad rap. They're pigeonholed as being rude, having poor hygiene, and only thinking about themselves. But not all high schoolers fall into the stereotype. Through their selfless actions, facing circumstances that could make even Superman cower, these teens rise above the riffraff to become heroes. Here, a rundown of their incredible tales:
1. The prom-bound teens who came to the aid of car-crash victims
Wearing three-piece suits and floor-sweeping gowns, 20 seniors from Western High in Davie, Fla., were heading to their prom in a white stretch limo on May 11. In front of them on a highway, a Honda Odyssey van started swerving wildly, nearly driving on two wheels, until it hit a side barrier and flipped over. The limo screeched to a halt, narrowly missing the van, whose passengers were already in a panic, yelling, crying and trying to free themselves from the broken glass and crumpled metal. The limo driver and the students scrambled out to help. The limo driver reportedly kicked one door open to get access to the passengers inside. A student climbed on top of the van, forced the sliding door open, and reached inside to free some of the passengers. There were young kids in the van, including a small child who was stuck under one of the seats. The limo driver was able to pull the child out and handed the kid over to one of the gown-clad students. The group continued to help the bloodied and petrified passengers until firefighters and police arrived. All told, seven injured passengers were taken to nearby hospitals. And the students? They were shaken but continued on. "I went on to prom and a lot of girls were helping me get the blood out of my dress, so it was good," one student told the Sun Sentinel.
2. The high school baseball team that lifted a car to save a life
On May 8, in the parking lot of Sacramento's Valley High School, a student's mom was picking her daughter up when she hit a car in front of her. Panicked, she quickly reversed, not realizing her daughter was directly behind the car. The girl was hit and became trapped under the car. Meanwhile, Valley's varsity and junior varsity baseball teams were having their last practice of the season nearby. They heard desperate screams for help. The team sprinted toward the parking lot, jumping over fences to get there. About a dozen of the players surrounded the car, lifting the four-door sedan off of the girl. The teams' assistant coach pulled the girl out and she was sent to a hospital, where she was reportedly expected to recover. Co-head coach Brett Sawyer said he was proud of the boys' brave actions. "To be honest, we might not have the best baseball team around, but we sure do have a great group of guys."
3. The 14-year-old who protected a rape victim from her assailant
James Persyn III was home alone on Jan. 16 watching his two younger siblings when he heard frantic banging at the door of his house in a small Michigan town. Though frightened, James unlocked the door to an alarming sight - a woman, a senior at Central Michigan University, who was wrapped in clear packing tape, with bruises on her face, and cradling one arm. She said she'd been raped by a man who held her at gunpoint and was transporting her in a car when she escaped. James could see headlights coming up his long, winding driveway. The 14-year-old wasted no time. He locked all the house doors, herded everyone into the bathroom, turned off the lights, grabbed his hunting knife and waited. The alleged rapist, Eric Ramsey, came pounding at the door, reportedly screaming, "Let me in or I'll kill you!" James called his dad and the victim called 911, so help was on the way. But Ramsey, unable to break in, had moved onto another plan, pouring gasoline on the house and setting it ablaze. Luckily, James' father came home in time to put the fire out before it could spread. Police and an ambulance soon followed. The attacker escaped the scene but was later shot and killed, the Detroit Free Press reports.
4. The 14-year-old who saved a young boy from a burning building
One evening last September, Marcos Ugarte was doing homework with his dad when the two saw an orange-red hue down their street. They ran to their neighbor's home in Troutdale, Ore., to find the house aflame and four of the five family members safe outside. The father who lived in the burning home, You "Alex" Ma, said his 8-year-old son Cody was trapped in a room on the second floor. Marcos offered to run inside, but his father, Eduardo, told him to stay put while he attempted to retrieve Cody. The heat and smoke forced the elder Ugarte out, but Marcos was already on the move. He got ahold of a ladder and placed it under the second-story window. With his father holding the ladder in place, Marcos knocked the window screen out and guided the boy out the window and down the ladder. Cody was taken to the hospital, but was unharmed. While the Ugarte family is proud of their son, Marcos himself remains humble: "I can't say I really consider myself a hero," . "I think anyone would have done what I did."
5. The 16-year-old who braved thin ice to save a boy from drowning
In the winter of 2011, Kole Devisscher was driving by a stretch of the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when he noticed a blue jacket floating in the freezing waters. Curious, he backed up his truck for another look to find that a young boy was struggling to get out of a crack in the ice. The 16-year-old used his truck's tow strap to pull the 10-year-old out, but the boy wasn't able to grab the rope because his hands were already turning blue. Devisscher made a loop out of the rope and threw it back into the river, telling the boy to put it around his shoulders. It worked. Devisscher was honored with an award for bravery, which he said was " pretty awesome." When asked about his heroic act he said only that "I hope someone else would do that for me if I was in the same situation."
6. The 16-year-old who saved his fellow campers during a bear attack
In July 2011, a group of teenagers ranging in age from 16 to 18 were attacked by a mother grizzly bear while on a survival-skills course in Alaska. The teens were on day 24 of a 30-day trek and traveling, at that point, without adults. All seven of the teens survived, including two who suffered life-threatening wounds, largely thanks to 16-year-old Samuel Boas, who was reportedly not injured. For nine hours the group waited for emergency workers to reach them, and all the while Boas, who had been trained by his Connecticut hometown EMS group, administered first aid with improvised materials while staying calm. When medics arrived on the scene, the industrious young man even refused to be evacuated with the first lot, staying on with the remaining injured to do what he could.
7. The 18-year-old who pulled the driver out of a truck hanging off a cliff
Peter Hanne was in his New Zealand home late one night in 2008 when a panicked knock came at the door. A passerby said a truck was on the brink of falling into the Waioeka Gorge, a riverway just a few hundred yards from Hanne's house. The 18-year-old didn't even think to grab his shoes; he just just told his family to call the cops and rushed to the scene himself. He found the 23-ton truck had jackknifed over the side of the road and was teetering on the edge, with the cab - and the driver inside - dangling underneath it. "I knew the normal thing to do was call the fire brigade and wait, but I heard it creaking and I knew we needed to get him out pretty quick," Hanne said. The young man climbed down the steep bank and into the space between the trailer and the cab. He broke the rear window with a wheel brace and helped the injured driver climb out. Hanne's bold rescue left even the police in awe. "We're always complaining about our young people... but here is one young man who has really laid his life on the line for another. He is a real hero," the police constable said.
8. The teen who saved his South Dakota school from a Columbine-like tragedy
Before Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and Columbine, there almost could have been Rapid City, had it not been for the swift acts of senior Chris Ericks. On Sept. 11, 1991, 17-year-old Ryan Harris entered Stevens High School in Rapid City, S.D., walked into a math class, demanded that the teacher leave, and held 22 of his fellow students, including Ericks, hostage with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. For four hours, the students cowered, while the young man blared demands for pizza, cigarettes, $1 million, and a helicopter getaway over the public address system, accenting each order by firing his weapon into the classroom. He shot at the chalkboard, the ceiling, and the window, making it clear that he had plenty of ammo and that he would leave no survivors. But then, for one moment, Harris put his gun down and Ericks lunged for it. Harris, realizing his mistake, jumped at the shotgun too, and the pair struggled for control. Ericks, however, won the tug-of-war, and the gunman was overpowered. "To this day, I'm so proud of Chris Ericks for having the courage to do what he did to bring the situation to a close," police Capt. Christopher Grant told the Rapid City Journal in 2011.
9. The 14-year-old who saved two men from drowning
Gordon Arnette's inner alarm went off when he heard Jimmy Dowd and Thomas McGarry loudly announce one June day in 1989 that they were going for a swim in the Norwalk River. The Connecticut teen said it was clear the two men, who he had chatted with at a neighborhood pharmacy, had been drinking, so he followed them down to the banks of the river and even asked them not to go in. But they refused and jumped into the swirling river, where they were quickly swept away by the heavy current, their heads bobbing in and out of the water. Arnette sprang into action, jumping into a nearby inflatable raft and paddling some 130 feet with his hands to reach the drowning men. Arnette grabbed Dowd with one hand and then paddled another 30 feet to McGarry who had begun to have a seizure. The teen left Dowd hanging on the raft and dove into the water to retrieve McGarry. "It was hard, but I grabbed him by his chin like they taught me in school, and I got his arm and put it over the other side of the raft," he said. By the time police arrived, Arnette had already safely paddled the two men to shore, where they had collapsed, semi-conscious. "If [Arnette] had not take action, McGarry would have perished," the official police report said. Ironically, the high school sophomore, who dreamed of becoming a lifeguard, had been told by his P.E. teacher just a few weeks prior that he wasn't a strong enough swimmer for the job.
The article was originally published on Jan. 23, 2013, and last updated on May 15, 2013. Sources: Detroit Free Press, The Hour, Huffington Post, New Canaan Patch, The Oregonian, Rapid City Journal, The Right Side, The Stir, Stuff.co.nz, Sun Sentinel, Winnipeg Free Press

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These high schoolers came to the aid of car crash victims and fended off violent attackers. What were you doing after puberty hit?

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December 28, 2017
It has been a year in which vitriolic political divisions, natural disasters and mass shootings caused widespread pain and hardship. Some people died, and many more have faced unimaginable challenges. But as these difficulties and tragedies unfolded across the country, great acts of humanity also were on display, as people stepped in to help - sometimes at significant personal cost.

Many ordinary people became sudden heroes in 2017. Here are a few of their stories:

When a gunman opened fire in November at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., killing 26 people, Stephen Willeford was in his house nearby and heard the disturbance. He grabbed his gun and ran out of the house barefoot, confronting the gunman and exchanging fire with him. As the gunman jumped into his car, Willeford ran over to Johnnie Langendorff, who happened to be driving by the church, and told him what was going on. The two men chased the gunman, and held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

Officer Ryan Holets of the Albuquerque police was working one day in September when he spotted a pregnant woman and her boyfriend preparing to use intravenous drugs. He confronted them, saying the drugs would harm the baby. After an exchange, the woman told Holets that she was homeless and just wanted her child to go to a good family. Holets offered to adopt the baby. The following month, Holets and his wife did just that, and named the child Hope. "We're just very blessed that we have Hope in our lives," he said.
[How this mom turned her late husband's birthday into her favorite day of the year]
Tarana Burke started the #metoo movement, empowering women to stand up and speak out about sexual misconduct. As someone who experienced sexual assault, she wanted to do something to help women and girls. She actually started the movement in 2006, but it really took off in 2017. "It made my heart swell to see women using this idea - one that we call 'empowerment through empathy,' " she tweeted, "to not only show the world how widespread and pervasive sexual violence is, but also to let other survivors know they are not alone. ."

Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville when a man drove a car into a crowd where she and others were protesting a white-supremacist rally in August. At her memorial service, Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, had strong words for the crowd. "They tried to kill my child to shut her up, but guess what, you just magnified her," Bro said, sparking a sustained ovation.

As Hurricane Harvey roared, Keri Henry watched reports of floodwaters rising, emergency telephone lines jamming and people posting desperate pleas for help online. Henry grabbed a notepad and began scratching down details, thinking she would connect the people in trouble with Facebook users offering boats and high-water vehicles. Within hours, Henry was running a one-woman command center from her sofa, connecting those who wanted to help with people who needed to be saved.

Sandra Welsh and 200 other prison inmates fought the deadly California fires. "We are the ones that do the line. We are the ones that carry the hose out. We're the line of defense," she told NBC news. The inmates, who volunteer for the work, are paid $2 a day, plus $1 for each hour they spend on the fire line.
Read more: A woman raised more than $300,000 to help a homeless man who spent his last $20 to buy her gas This student left college to help his dying childhood friend complete his bucket list

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A New Zealand camper was fishing on a different part of the beach and found a 18 month-old.  He had noticed that there was something floating near his fishing rod.  He thought it was a doll at first but then it "gave a small squeak." He showed an act of bravery because he could've gotten washed away.

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In ‘Freakish Miracle’, Man’s Change of Fishing Spot Results in Rescuing 18-Month-old From the Ocean

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If this fisherman had not spontaneously decided to set up his lines at a different spot on the beach, this story may have had a very different ending.

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Heroes often sacrifice their lives for people, and no one knows what the outcome can be.

Temar Boggs was with some friends and he used his friends bike to chase down the car. After chasing them for a while the kidnapper stopped and let her out, then speeded away.

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I think that he is a hero because he risked his life to save a lady that passed out while driving.

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QUINCY, Mass. -- Paul Healy, a 14-year veteran driver for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was at the right place at the right time for a woman who needed someone like him.

His quick thinking and driving ability prevented an SUV whose driver had apparently passed out from plunging into a Quincy, Mass., intersection, according to CBS Boston. His actions possibly saved her life and the lives of others.

Healy was driving the bus along its route on Friday when he noticed a Jeep Compass slumped over the wheel and losing control of the vehicle.

"I saw the car veer off to the right in front of me and slowed down. Then it went up on the curb and came back down and then when I got about parallel to the car, I looked over and I saw the woman slumped over," he said. "It was just seconds before she was going to go into the intersection."

So Healy maneuvered his bus in front of the Jeep to bring it to a stop. He then called his dispatcher, who summoned an ambulance. Afterward, he darted off the bus and attended to the woman, later identified as Denise McDonald, who had been on her way to a doctor's appointment.

McDonald was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

"I woke up in the emergency room and that is never a good sign," she said. "He did absolutely the right thing at the right time and he was at the right place for me, so he is my guardian angel."

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QUINCY, Mass. -- Paul Healy, a 14-year veteran driver for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was at the right place at the right time for a woman who needed someone like him. His quick thinking and driving ability prevented an SUV whose driver had apparently passed out from plunging into a Quincy, Mass., intersection, according to CBS Boston.

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The daughter of a woman risked her own life to save her mother, who was shoved onto a path of an oncoming train. I think that this was an act of heroism because Katie risked her own life to save her mother, who was pushed off a passenger platform.

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Daughter Katie Wenszell suffered facial injuries, broken ribs, a shattered shoulder and a crushed foot. The train severed two of her toes.

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15 Year Old Shot Sacrified His Life While Protecting 3 Girls

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LISTEN to this story in our podcast, told by The Good News Guru (the GNN Founder) on Friday's radio broadcast with Ellen K on KOST-103.5 - Or, READ the story below... (Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes - or for Androids, on Podbean)

A 34-year-old hiker was in dire straits, but she was rescued thanks to a life-saving guardian angel-a stranger who couldn't stop worrying about her.

Nancy Abell was out for a day hike in the mountains of Washington state in October when she first spotted a hiker in a red jacket heading north towards Canada without snowshoes.

Katharina Groene traveled from Munich determined to hike the entire 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail after feeling like she'd lost her faith in humanity-the exact storyline in the Reese Witherspoon movie , based on the book written by Cheryl Strayed, which inspired her long hike.

Katharina started at the trailhead, journeyed north and made it all the way to the Glacier Peak Wilderness: an alpine mountain range in Washington that is considered the hardest part of the entire trail.

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Since the area is prone to snow storms, most people try and finish the trail by September - but when October rolled around and Katharina found herself within 200 miles of Canada, she couldn't bear to turn around when she was so close to her goal, despite Nancy's advice to do so.

Katharina and Nancy spent several hours chatting while hiking side-by-side along the trail until they eventually parted ways. Nancy, however, could not stop worrying about the German hiker, so she made sure to check the daily weather forecasts along the trail from her home in Salta, Washington.

Only a few days later, a storm rolled in. Concerned for her new friend, Nancy posted on a local hiker's forum asking if anyone had met a German hiker headed north. Someone reported they had run into her two days previously-but no on had seen her since.

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Nancy couldn't shake the feeling that Katharina was in danger, so she called rescue services and told them about the missing hiker. Since she knew that Groene had planned on hiking 15 miles every day, she calculated how far along the trail the German hiker would likely be based on the weather and how much she was carrying.

Sgt. John Adams of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Unit said, "She told us she would probably be north of Mica Lake but south of the Suiattle River-which ended up being right on."

Sure enough, Groene had slowed to a pace of 7 miles per day trying to reach a ranger's station 30 miles away. She was soaking wet and showing signs of hypothermia and frostbite. She was running out of food and the tarp that had kept her tent dry had blown away in the wind. Her cell phone had lost service by the time she woke up in whiteout conditions.

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She was prepared for the worst-but then suddenly, a rescue helicopter spotted her red jacket based on Nancy's precise calculations. Katharina was saved.

She was invited to stay with Nancy at her home, where the two have become 'Wild' friends-and even though she didn't complete the trail, she got to check off that box: Faith in humanity restored!

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Chris Parker, a 33-year-old homeless man who came to the aid of the wounded after the Manchester bombing.

LONDON - For Chris Parker, the arena's entrance area might have seemed like a good place to ask people for money. Stephen Jones had found a spot nearby to sleep.

Now, the two men, both homeless, are being praised as heroes for helping victims of the Manchester Arena bombing.

As Manchester and the rest of Britain were trying to come to terms with the country's deadliest terrorist attack in more than a decade, the two men are being hailed on social media for their selflessness and courage.

Mr. Parker, 33, was panhandling when the bomb exploded, according to local news reports. The force of the blast knocked him to the floor, but he was unfazed.

Rather than running for safety, he went to the aid of victims, comforting a girl who had lost her legs, wrapping her in a T-shirt, and cradling a dying woman in his arms.

Mr. Jones, 35, says he pulled nails out of children's arms and faces.

"Just because I am homeless doesn't mean I haven't got a heart, or I'm not human still," he told ITV News. "I'd like to think someone would come and help me if I needed the help," he said, adding that he had been overcome by an "instinct" to pitch in.

"It was children," he continued. "It was a lot of children with blood all over them and crying and screaming."

Mr. Parker told the news agency Press Association that amid the smoke and the shrieks after the explosion, he saw a little girl. "I wrapped her in one of the merchandise T-shirts, and I said, 'Where is your mum and daddy?' She said, 'My dad is at work, my mum is up there,'" he was quoted as saying.

He also said he had tried to help an older woman who had head and leg injuries, but that she died in his arms.

"She was in her 60s, and she had been with her family. I haven't stopped crying," he told the Press Association. "The most shocking part of it is that it was a kids' concert."

After his actions became known, an online fund-raising page was set up for Mr. Parker. By early afternoon on Wednesday it had raised 30,000 pounds, or almost $40,000.

Another fund, for Mr. Jones, was listed on the JustGiving site.

The tragedy may have also helped to heal a family rift. After hearing about what Mr. Parker had done, his mother reached out.

"This is my son and I am desperate to get in touch with him," she wrote on the fund-raising page. "We have been estranged for a very long time, and I had no idea he was homeless. I am very proud of him, and I think he might need me right now."

Correction:

An earlier version of this article omitted the name of Stephen Jones, who assisted victims of the attack, and by so doing misattributed several quotations. It was Mr. Jones, not Mr. Parker, who talked about being overcome by an instinct to help.

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This was an act of heroism because a Massachusetts boy saved his baby brother from choking to death. When the three brothers were home alone baby Zach was choking on a piece of mango but with the quick actions of his older brother Ben he immediately called 911 and handed the phone to the babysitter.

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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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A burning building this week in Marawi, the Philippines' only predominantly Muslim city. Militants overran the city in May, announcing their intent to create an Islamic caliphate. Credit Credit Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

MARAWI, Philippines - Three Christian civilians said they had cowered in a basement for weeks while militants inspired by the Islamic State went door to door killing non-Muslims in the southern Philippine city of Marawi before fleeing for their lives at dawn on Tuesday.

"We heard them shouting 'Allahu akbar' and asking neighbors about religion," said Ian Torres, 25, a house painter who had come to Marawi for a job. "We could only hear them. If they could not answer questions about Quran verses, gunfire immediately followed."

Their account, and others from people who have fled the battle zone in Marawi, starkly illustrate the brutal religious calculus of the militants as well as the heroic efforts of local Muslims who risked their lives to protect Christian friends and workers.

The militants, a coalition of local insurgent groups loyal to the Islamic State, began their assault on the city on May 23, announcing their intent to create an Islamic caliphate in the Philippines' only predominantly Muslim city. Since then, more than 300 people have been killed, the military says.

There have been previous reports of the militants threatening or killing Christians, but it is not yet known how many have died. The military says a total of 26 civilians have been killed, but the militants still control about a fifth of the city, and there may be other areas the military has not reached.

A propaganda video released by the Islamic State on Monday showed what was said to be the execution of six Christians in Marawi. However, it was not possible to verify that the scene was recorded there, and military officials cast doubt on the claim.

The three Christians who escaped Marawi were among a group of five laborers from Iligan City, about 25 miles to the north, who were hired to refurbish the house of a prominent Muslim trader in Marawi.

But what was supposed to be a routine job turned into a nightmare when they were trapped in hostile territory with Islamist militants hunting them down.

One of the men, Nick Andilig, 26, said about 50 militants suddenly appeared in the neighborhood where they were working, shouting "Allahu akbar" and displaying a black flag.

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Among the Christian civilians trapped by the fighting in Marawi were, from left, Nick Andilig, 26; Ian Torres, 25; and Arman Langilan, 22. Credit Felipe Villamor/The New York Times

"They claimed to be ISIS out on a mission to cleanse the city," he said, using another name for the Islamic State. He said he thought that meant they would kill all non-Muslims in the area.

The fighters appeared to be in their 20s, wore face masks and head gear, and carried long firearms, Mr. Andilig said. Some arrived in a police car, which they had apparently stolen.

Mr. Andilig said their employer hid the workers in his basement. When the militants reached his door, the workers overheard him arguing with them. "He told the gunmen that there were no Christians in the house," Mr. Andilig said.

The militants eventually moved on to the next house. Then they heard shooting.

Mr. Andilig said he did not see the killings, but when he and his group eventually emerged from hiding, they saw several bodies on the ground with what appeared to be gunshot wounds.

"Our employer escaped earlier with another household staff," he said. "He said he would come back for us but never made it. He was a good Muslim."

That left the five workers, four men and a pregnant woman, trapped in the house.

For days they subsisted on food the owner had left behind, mostly canned goods and rice, but eventually that ran out. They began to leave the house on brief forays to scrounge for food, eating plants they found.

They were getting hungry, and the explosions outside, apparently from bombs dropped by military airplanes, had been getting louder, suggesting the bombs were getting closer.

"All of us decided to escape," Mr. Andilig said. "But our companion, who is seven months pregnant, could not run along with us. She and her husband decided to stay."

"We said we'd try to get rescue for them if we made it out. We also told ourselves that our fate was with the Lord."

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Philippine soldiers in Marawi. Militants control about a fifth of the city, and there may be other areas the military has not been able to reach. Credit Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

As dawn broke on Tuesday, Mr. Andilig, Mr. Torres and Arman Langilan, 22, fled.

"We told each other, whatever happens, happens," Mr. Torres said. "If we get hit and die, that's our fate. But we had to escape. Or at least die trying."

They alternated running and hiding in thick shrubs, eventually reaching the Agos River that divides the city and separates the area controlled by the militants with that controlled by the Philippine military.

They tumbled down the banks of the river as bullets fired by snipers sporting black bandannas whizzed over their heads. They plunged into the rushing water, hugging the banks until they saw a clearing, and climbed out on the other side.

They were found by the police wandering, tired and hungry, among the ruins of the city, which the fighting has transformed into a desolate landscape of pockmarked buildings and cratered structures.

At a government checkpoint, they told their stories to the police and to The New York Times.

All showed signs of trauma. Mr. Langilan spoke incoherently and shuddered when bombs from a passing military plane exploded in the distance. Mr. Andilig clutched a piece of cucumber, his only real food in days, and repeatedly said he needed a shower.

Mr. Torres was still wearing pants and a shirt smeared with paint, the clothes he was wearing the day hostilities broke out.

The fate of the two colleagues they left behind remains unknown. Attempts to reach them by mobile phone have been futile.

Christians and Muslims have long coexisted peacefully in Marawi, Mr. Andilig said.

"I have many friends who are Muslim," he said. "It was never a problem in the past."

There was still evidence of that camaraderie at another neighborhood in Marawi, where five Muslim police officers hid and protected five Christian construction workers for nearly three weeks.

A street scene in Marawi in May. Fighting has transformed the city into a desolate landscape of pockmarked buildings and cratered structures. Credit Erik De Castro/Reuters

"We had our chance to flee because we are Muslims," said Lumla Lidasan, one of the officers. "But as police officers we are mandated to protect the people. So we elected to stay because they will execute the Christian civilians."

Officer Lidasan said he and his colleagues were armed with long rifles, which allowed them to keep the militants at bay while the Christians hid in the basement. Outside, he said, he heard rockets and bombs exploding as the city was reduced to rubble.

"They are not real Muslims," he said. "Real Muslims will not hurt people unprovoked, regardless of religion."

One of the Christians, Rodel Aleko, 24, said the bombing runs shook their hiding place, but whenever he peered out the window he would see the gunmen still patrolling.

A police officer, Ricky Alawi, said there were times that they thought it was going to be the end for all of them. He said they were in radio contact with the army, who told them that there would soon be a bombing run in their area. They decided to take a chance and leave that day, which was Monday.

"As we were fleeing we saw bodies lying on the ground," he said. "The gunmen were shooting at us as we ran toward the next building, where we stayed overnight. One of my colleagues and one of the civilians were injured."

When there was a lull in the fighting, the group started slowly walking toward Banggolo Bridge but were stopped by a gunman. Mr. Alawi said he told the militant that his colleagues were too traumatized to speak.

"He told us to just wait because he would call his companions," Mr. Alawi said. "When he left, we ran as fast as we could and crossed the bridge."

Mr. Aleko was wounded when bomb shrapnel hit his left leg, he said, and the blasts were so loud that they may have permanently damaged his hearing.

But he could only feel grateful.

"This is our second life," he said. "I thank God for these officers."

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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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A hero is someone who sacrifices their life no matter the situation. A young 6-old girl smelled smoke in their home, warning her parents along with their 2 sons, she managed to save the family from their burning home.

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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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Heroes help others even though it cost time effort, and possibly more, such as how Chen Si sacrifices his time to save those who jump from the  Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. He has saved well over 100 lives.

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We tend to think of heroes as wearing capes and hurtling through the sky, but real heroes are all around us, wearing everyday clothes and working mundane jobs like the rest of us. We honor police, firefighters, and soldiers all the time in parades and holidays, but there are so many other heroes-good Samaritans in the right place at the right time who reach inside themselves and act selflessly.

Unfortunately, China suffers from one of the highest suicide rates in the world. With gun ownership severely restricted, many distraught people choose to commit suicide by jumping. But those who decide to end their lives by leaping from the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge might just find themselves pulled back from the brink by a guardian angel. Chen Si is a family man of humble means who spends much of his time patrolling the length of the bridge, looking for desperate people. Over the 10 years he has served as the "suicide watchman," he has saved well over 100 lives.

Chen Si does not merely swoop in and talk people off the ledge-he actually rents a house where he takes those he's rescued to receive psychological help. The work is taxing, and while he receives donations, he is often forced to contribute from his own pocket. His wife complains about the investment he makes, but Chen refuses to abandon the lost souls on the bridge.

9 James Harrison
Australia

Australia's James Harrison had a rough start. At the age of 13, he endured a near-fatal surgery to remove a lung infected with metastasized pneumonia. The operation required a heavy blood transfusion. Grateful that the blood had saved his life, Harrison pledged to donate often. It was soon discovered that his blood contained an antibody that protects against Rhesus disease, a disorder that occurs when a mother and child have incompatible blood types. His blood eventually formed the basis for a vaccine against the disease called Anti-D. "The man with the golden arm" has given blood over 1,000 times and saved more than 2 million lives, including that of his own daughter, Tracey.

8 A Mayor And A Bishop
Greece

Zakynthos is an idyllic Greek island in the Ionian Sea. During the Nazi occupation of Greece, the governor of Zakynthos went to the local mayor, Loukas Karrer, demanding a list of the Jews on the island. After consulting with clergyman Bishop Chrysostomos, the mayor reported to the Nazis, refusing to give any names. When the infuriated governor once again asked for a list of the Jews, the men handed over a piece of paper with only two names on it-their own. They also handed over a letter from Karrer to Hitler himself, insisting that the Jews of Zakynthos were under his protection and would not be surrendered. In the meantime, the Jews scattered across the island, hiding in Christian homes. When the Nazis withdrew from the island in October 1944, all 275 Jews had been saved by the actions of two brave men.

7 John Malkovich
Canada

John Malkovich is an actor of stage and screen, best known for his expertise at being a bad guy. While he might play sinister in front of the camera, in real life he's the kind of guy you really want around in an emergency. In June 2013, elderly tourist Jim Walpole tripped outside his hotel in Toronto, Ontario. Walpole fell against some metal scaffolding and gashed his throat open. As he lay bleeding profusely on the sidewalk, his wife screamed for help. Almost immediately, a stranger stopped and applied pressure to the wound. The stranger was none other than actor John Malkovich, who was in the city appearing in the play The Giacomo Variations. Two others stopped, keeping the 77-year-old Walpole from bleeding to death until an ambulance arrived. Jim claimed, "I owe them all my life, but the first guy really seemed to know what to do."

When asked about the incident, Malkovich downplayed his role, saying, "Any citizen would do the same-it's nothing special."

6 Robert Nicholas
United States

Discovery Channel's Shark Week is a dubious form of entertainment, but the programming can be credited for saving at least one human life. When four teenage boys flipped a Jeep in Boston, New York, in August 2013, 16-year-old Bailey Mcgroarty was trapped inside. He'd suffered a broken wrist and elbow, and his arm was badly gashed, with arterial bleeding. The teen could have bled to death if it hadn't been for Robert Nicholas, a passerby who applied a tourniquet. Nicholas had no medical training-he'd learned the technique, he said, from watching a Shark Week show. Mcgroarty was eventually freed from the vehicle and airlifted to the hospital, where an emergency surgery replaced his damaged artery with a vein.

Japan's 2011 Tohoku earthquake was the most powerful known earthquake in the country's history, so powerful that it moved Honshu, Japan's largest island, 2.4 meters (eight feet) to the east and shifted the Earth's axis. The earthquake and the resultant tsunami were responsible for well over 15,000 deaths, a number that would have been far higher if it hadn't been for the quick, selfless actions of heroes all over the nation. When towering waves flattened the city of Ishinomaki, 43-year-old Hideaki Akaiwa thought he might have lost his family forever. But the surfer threw on some scuba gear and plunged into the dark waters in search of his house.

He descended into what could only have been an undersea nightmare-icy waters choked with corpses, broken glass, and live wires, and riptides that could drag him out into the ocean or crush him against submerged buildings. Against all hope, he reached his home beneath the water. He found his wife on an upper level, gasping on the last bit of air trapped inside. Akaiwa's mother was still missing, and he continued to search for her, eventually finding her days later on the second floor of a flooded house. Even with his family safe, he continued to help, setting out on a bicycle to search for survivors for a week after the tsunami laid ruin to his city. Although he received a great deal of media attention for his heroism, Hideaki was reticent about his role, telling reporters through a translator that he went on his desperate search for his wife because "She is very important for me."

4 Bishnu Shrestha
India

The Gurkhas are soldiers from India and Nepal who have proven over hundreds of years to be warriors of seemingly limitless courage. They are well known for carrying the kukri, a large, oddly curved fighting knife. In September 2010, Bishnu Shrestha was on a train after his Gurkha retirement ceremony. He was on the way to Gorakhpur, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India, when the train was besieged by a gang of 15-40 armed thugs who began robbing the passengers.

Shrestha was prepared to surrender his valuables, until they grabbed the 18-year-old girl who was sitting beside him, with the intent of raping her. Bishnu leaped into action, attacking the men with his kukri. After some 10 minutes of vicious fighting, the robbers fled. They left behind their haul as well as three of their dead and eight more too grievously injured by Shrestha's blade to escape. Bishnu suffered a wound on his left hand that took two months to heal. Grateful to the veteran soldier for saving the girl, her family offered him a large cash reward, which he declined. He said, "Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier. Taking on the thugs on the train was my duty as a human being."

3 Fiona Bainbridge And Anita Smith
United Kingdom

Most heroes are celebrated for their efforts, but the world can be a bizarre place-when bus terminal employees Fiona Bainbridge and Anita Smith leaped into action, they were insulted and abused by the people around them.

In October 2012, a terrified woman approached janitor Bainbridge as she cleaned the bus terminal in Rotherham, England. The woman explained that her five-week-old baby had stopped breathing. Fiona and her colleague Anita Smith rushed over to the baby, which was blue and limp. The women administered CPR to the infant as a crowd gathered, hurling insults and claiming they were using the wrong technique. But something must have worked-just before the paramedics arrived on the scene, the lifeless tot began to breathe again. Later, Anita, a mother herself, would say, "I'll never forget that baby's face smiling up at me for as long as I live."

2 Ramona Gibbs
United Kingdom

In 2011, six-year-old Ramona Gibbs and her little sister Trixie were playing on the sidewalk outside their home in Bristol, England, when a car mounted the curb and hurtled toward them. The car's 94-year-old driver had mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake. Ramona selflessly pushed Trixie aside and took the full impact. The car crushed her tiny body against a parked Land Rover. She suffered a laundry list of injuries, including a broken leg and rib, damaged liver and lung, a bruised pelvis, a smashed knee, and internal bleeding. Ramona stayed in the hospital for 16 days and required five surgeries. Doctors asserted that had three-year-old Trixie been hit, the smaller child would have undoubtedly been killed.

1 Muelmar Magallanes
Philippines

The Philippines are well-versed in storms-monstrous tropical cyclones called typhoons sweep over the island nation several times a year. But 2009's Typhoon Ketsana was an altogether different beast, one of the most devastating storms in the country's history, dumping record amounts of rain. Soon, the streets of Manila raged with floodwaters. As neighbors were swept away, 18-year-old construction worker Muelmar Magallanes leaped to their aid. He plunged into the the water again and again, saving more than 30 lives.

At last, he spotted Menchie Penalosa and her six-month-old daughter clutching a styrofoam box as the torrent carried them away. Muelmar swam after them, eventually dragging them to safety. But the teen was exhausted by his superhuman efforts, and moments after rescuing Penalosa and her baby, Magallanes submerged beneath the water and was gone. The young hero's corpse was found the next day, several miles away. When Menchie Penalosa went to pay her respects beside Muelmar's coffin, she said, "He gave his life for me and my baby and I'll never forget his sacrifice. I'll be grateful to him for the rest of my life."

Mike Devlin is an aspiring novelist.

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