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Rescuers Pull Girl, 3, From 69-Foot Well

Vanesa Mamani is doing fine

(Newser) - A 3-year-old girl was rescued after falling down a 69-foot well in Argentina, and amazingly suffered only minor scrapes. After being trapped for six hours, Vanesa Mamani spent a day in the hospital to recover, but is in good health, the Buenos Aires Herald reports. Rescuers pulled her from the...

Shanghai High-Rise Inferno Kills 12

 Shanghai High-Rise 
 Inferno Kills 42 
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Nov 15, 2010 11:27 AM CST

Shanghai High-Rise Inferno Kills 42

Rescuers save more than 100 from 30-story apartment building

(Newser) - Flames spread through a 30-story Shanghai apartment building today, killing 42 and injuring more than 90, according to the latest reports. Sparked during a building renovation, the fire began on scaffolding before reaching the building. Some 100 people were reported rescued from the blaze, which raged through at least 10...

Stopping Suicide No Publicity Stunt: T.I.

Rapper slams claims he was trying to look good ahead of court date

(Newser) - After T.I. talked a man threatening suicide out of jumping from a downtown Atlanta building, some are calling the move a publicity stunt—but that couldn’t be further from the truth, the rapper tells CNN . The video he made, which police played to the man and is credited...

Miner Rescue Didn't Need 1300 Journos to Cover It

Why waste so many resources in "era of closed foreign bureaus"?

(Newser) - The rescue of Chile’s trapped miners is a wonderful story about “ingenuity, working together, and triumph,” but it’s also a story about journalism, Jeremy Littau writes. “To know that 1300 journalists have descended on this mining town to cover a worldwide story is a little...

Media Frenzy, Family Dramas Await Miners

So, about that mistress...

(Newser) - What's more uncomfortable than spending months trapped in a mine ? Being greeted at the surface by both your wife and your mistress. Such is the awkward predicament of Yonni Barrios, 50, one of the 33 miners trapped some 2300 feet below Chile's Atacama desert, finds the Telegraph . As he...

74 Whales Stranded in New Zealand

Volunteers battle to keep some alive overnight

(Newser) - A pod of 74 pilot whales is stranded in a remote section of northern New Zealand called Spirits Bay beach. Though 25 have already died, volunteers are struggling mightily to keep the survivors alive overnight so they might be re-floated tomorrow, notes the AP . In mid-August a pod of 58...

Chile Starts Digging Miner Rescue Shaft

NASA pitching in to help trapped miners

(Newser) - Three months and 29 days to go: Engineers have begun drilling the shaft through which they hope to rescue the 33 miners trapped in a collapsed gold mine deep below Chile's Atacama Desert. The rescue shaft, begun late yesterday, must reach down 2,300 feet to the emergency shelter where...

Tot Walks to Fire Station to Save Pop

Father would have died without her help

(Newser) - When Alesaundra Tafoya's parents taught her to go to a nearby fire station in case of emergency, they never imagined the tot would act on the safety lesson so soon. Alesaundra, 3, walked two blocks to a fire station after her father collapsed in their Northern California home last week,...

Tourist Survives 75-Foot Plunge at Grand Canyon

Dramatic rescue follows French teen's slip

(Newser) - A young French tourist is lucky his last word wasn't "merde." The traveler, 18, is being treated for wrist, ankle, and neck injuries after surviving a 75-foot fall from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, AP reports. Park ranger paramedics rappelled down to the man and strapped...

16 Rescued From Stormy Grand Tetons

Search for missing climber to continue

(Newser) - Rangers dangling from helicopters plucked 16 injured climbers from a mountain in Grand Teton National Park yesterday. Three separate climbing parties reported injuries—mostly burns from lightning strikes—after a severe storm hit. The search for the last missing climber was postponed due to darkness, but starts again today. Click...

Drunk Man Drifts a Mile Out to Sea on Pool Float

At least he was wearing his life jacket

(Newser) - A man on a pool float was rescued after having drifted a mile into the Gulf of Mexico, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Police suspect he was "extremely inebriated," and note that he was saved only when a boater called the Coast Guard about an unconscious man floating...

'Smell of Rotting Flesh' Led Man to Try to Amputate Arm

'Human spirit' is strong, says Jonathan Metz

(Newser) - After 12 hours of yelling for help after his arm became lodged in a furnace, Jonathan Metz started to consider the unthinkable. The 31-year-old, who became trapped last week after reaching for a fallen vacuum cleaner piece, had begun to smell rotting flesh and knew he had to take action....

Rafting Guide Saves a Life, Gets Arrested

Rescues stranded swimmer, but cops see 'obstruction'

(Newser) - Nice work, Ryan Snodgrass. You jumped into a swirling river and saved a 13-year-old girl from drowning. Now put on these handcuffs. Cops arrested the rafting guide for "obstructing government operations" because he disobeyed their orders not to get in the water as they prepared their gear, reports the...

Mine Still Too Dangerous for Rescue

4 miners remain trapped inside Upper Big Branch

(Newser) - It's still too soon to send rescuers into a West Virginia mine to look for four missing men, say federal safety officials. The concentration of dangerous gases in West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine are too high after the explosion that killed 25. Authorities have had no signs of life...

Spaniel Chases Bird Off 300-Foot Cliff, Lives
 Spaniel Chases Bird 
 Off 300-Foot Cliff, Lives 
happy endings
Feb 23, 2010 3:30 PM CST

Spaniel Chases Bird Off 300-Foot Cliff, Lives

Poppy on the mend after plunge into ocean off England

(Newser) - Poppy the springer spaniel is on the mend after chasing a seagull over a cliff and right into the English Channel. Despite suffering a partially collapsed lung, the dog swam to shore beneath the "Seven Sisters" chalk cliffs on the East Sussex coast and awaited the arrival of a...

Haiti Recalls 9/11 for Rescuers
 Haiti Recalls 9/11 for Rescuers 
Jan 18, 2010 3:20 PM CST

Haiti Recalls 9/11 for Rescuers

But scale of destruction shocks even disaster veterans

(Newser) - The New York Task Force has seen a lot—it has worked to save people at Ground Zero after 9/11, in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and now in Port-Au-Prince after last week's earthquake. For these seasoned rescuers, the experience of saving people from disaster doesn't change that much from...

Teen Survives Night Stranded With Polar Bears

Canadian youth rescued from Arctic ice floe

(Newser) - A 17-year-old Inuit youth is in a local hospital with hypothermia after spending over 24 hours stranded on a drifting ice floe in Canada's Hudson Bay with three polar bears. The teen became separated from his uncle as the two walked back toward a settlement after their snowmobile broke down...

Capt. Sully Plans Return to Flying
Capt. Sully Plans Return to Flying
Sep 28, 2009 5:15 PM CDT

Capt. Sully Plans Return to Flying

Hero pilot will also become part of US Airways' safety management team

(Newser) - Chesley Sullenberger, who saved the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549 when he executed daring water landing on the Hudson River in January, will soon return to flying. The hero pilot's return to the cockpit is imminent, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles reports. In addition to flying,...

900 Pulled From Sinking Filipino Ferry, 60 Missing

Five dead, 63 missing after fiasco in Philippines

(Newser) - A ferry carrying nearly 1,000 passengers sank in the southern Philippines early this morning, leaving at least five dead and more than 60 missing. The Superferry 9 began to list before dawn about 9 miles off Zamboanga del Norte province, rousing terrified passengers from their sleep and throwing some...

Hundreds Rescued from Taiwan Mudslides

(Newser) - Some 700 people feared dead in Taiwan's mudslides have been found alive and rescued from the disaster zone, the BBC reports. Military helicopters have been evacuating people from rural areas in southern Taiwan, where mudslides caused by Typhoon Morakot engulfed several mountain villages. Hundreds of other people are still missing...

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