Heroes

Two off duty fireman saved a young boy from a burning van after the driver, his mother, fell asleep at the wheel.

These men are true heros and we salute them.

“It was horrific,” Joel Rechlitz told Holt. “The car was engulfed in flames and the child was in there screaming. All I could see was that child’s face, [which] seemed just perfectly fine, but you could see the car seat around the child was burning. The child was literally burning in front of me.

“It was horrific,” he reiterated. “It compelled you to act.”

A 9 year old boy survived and rescued after spending a night by himself in the deep woods of Utah. Apparently, he got separated from his family and left searchers clues by systematically leaving personal affects along his path, a skill he learned from watching the show Man vs. Wild.

Nine-year-old Grayson Wynne of Heber City was found Sunday after getting separated from his family while hiking in Ashley National Forest near the Spirit Lake trailhead on Saturday, the Daggett County sheriff’s office said.

Searchers found a granola bar wrapper believed to be Grayson’s on Saturday night. On Sunday they found a small footprint by a creek bed and the boy’s backpack, which helped them realize he was following the creek.

Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old California girl dying of cancer, was granted her final wish of seeing the movie UP! thanks to the big-hearted folks at Pixar.

Amazing story! Two cars were stuck on train tracks, caught up in traffic due to a Memorial Day Parade. One car made it to the other side while the other, a mini van with a mother, two toddlers and an infant was stuck. While the mother and the toddlers escaped, a nearby police officer was trying to undo the car seat when he was hit. The baby and the officer went flying but both survived!!

Wooo hooo.

He definitely broke his leg. I saw it break when he hit. He just told me, ‘Go to the car. Get the kid out of the car.’ Here he was lying in pain, and all he thought was about getting that kid out. Amazing,” Weiner said.

The officer was taken by Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital. Partenfelder was also taken to Froedtert. His wife said that he was in surgery at 1:30 p.m. The officer’s condition is not known.

The baby was treated and released.

What a beautiful story of humanity and kindness. Although a man who couldn’t swim gave his life to save a little boy, he reminds us of courage, strength and true compassion. Let him always be honored and remembered as a hero.

God bless you Garrett Townsend.

Garrett Townsend may not have known how to swim, but that didn’t stop him from jumping into a water-filled pit to save a drowning boy Sunday evening.

Townsend, 58, died shortly after rescuing the 7-year-old boy, who had fallen into approximately 10 feet of water in a pit that had been dug for a new home’s basement on the 39000 block of Miracles Boulevard.

A 12-year-old who injured his head during a bike accident had his life saved by a doctor who used a household drill to make a hole in the boy’s skull to relieve pressure from internal bleeding.

Firefighters in the Bronx were heroes yesterday after they saved a 7-year-old dangling in an elevator shaft.

MT would like to congratulate Mark Lundsford at a chance of leading as normal of a life as possible; 12 years after his daughter Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered after being buried alive outside the killers home in Florida.

MT appreciates his dedication to keeping children safer and toughening the laws on child predators and we would like to welcome his baby boy to the world.

The Ocala Star-Banner reported Saturday that Mark Lunsford revealed in an interview this week that his girlfriend gave birth to a boy on Oct. 6, 2007…

Two Lawrence, Massachusetts men saved the day when they noticed a 3-year-old dangling out of a window, and their quick reaction caught her when she fell.

An alert parrot saved a toddler’s life when it gave out a distress call to its owner when a toddler in her care began choking.

After his friend was hit on his bicycle by an SUV, Ruben Nuncio went into action and carried the injured boy home.

Two police officers in Syracuse, New York rescued a 7-year-old that caught on fire while playing with matches.

Jackari Garrett suffered second- and third-degree burns on 25 percent of his body and was in serious condition Thursday at University Hospital, said Lt. Joe Cecile. The boy was burned on the left side of his body from his face, down his torso, to his leg, Cecile said.

Officers Jeffrey Fleming and Scott Fura were on routine patrol about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when they spotted the boy running across the street carrying what they thought was a flaming object. The officers quickly realized the boy was on fire, Cecile said.

Fleming and Fura jumped out of their patrol car and chased after the boy, grabbing him and rolling him in wet grass to put the fire out.

A fast thinking 14-year-old girl in Eau Claire, Wisconsin helped deliver her friend’s baby in the back of a van while they were on the way to the hospital.

Twenty-year-old Ellie Godown says her contractions started coming two minutes apart on Monday and her water broke at a gas station.

She and friends drove to the hospital, but the baby apparently wasn’t going to wait.

Fourteen-year-old Abi Middleton says she was sitting with Godown when the baby started emerging. She says she quickly wrapped the newborn in her sweat shirt to keep her warm.

A 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy had his $5,000 specialized wheelchair stolen by the two worst people in the world. Thankfully, there’s some actual humanity left in the universe.

But when word broke about the Slaughters’ plight at the Country Club Hills City Council meeting Monday evening, Mayor Dwight Welch and the city’s aldermen took up the cause. Welch pledged $1,000 toward a replacement chair if the insurance company would not cover the loss, and he urged the city to set up a fund for the family where others could contribute.

By Wednesday afternoon, city officials said they were flooded with calls for donations from all over the Chicago area. Some offered cash, and others wanted to donate wheelchairs. RehabTECH, the Wisconsin company that built D.J.’s chair almost three years ago, delivered a temporary replacement suited to his specifications Wednesday night. “People have just been incredibly generous,” Country Club Hills spokeswoman Wanda Comein said. “It’s a bad story turned good.”

By the way, DJ Slaughter is our new official nightclub name.

Sign this guy up for the Chicago Bears! They could use a wide receiver.

A diapered 2-year-old boy was perched on the 6-inch ledge of his second-story Main Street apartment at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, holding a cookie in one hand and the windowsill in the other.

Meanwhile, his mother, Crystal Simonds, 21, was still asleep inside, according to police.

As the boy looked down on the sidewalk below, pedestrians stared in horror, watching him sway precariously close to the edge.

Jeffrey Leonard, a 51-year-old Danielson resident on his way to the hardware store, noticed the scene, parked his car and ran beneath the boy — the only person to get close enough to the building to catch him, Leonard said.