Heroes

A Seattle woman was on a jog with her baby in a jogging stroller when she stopped to talk to some other women. She turned the stroller sideways and approached the group. However, the stroller did not stay put. Instead, it started rolling towards an intersection with the baby inside. Fortunately, Jeff Blackburn was driving ... read more »

12-year-old Justin Allen’s heroic act of bravery and quick thinking saved the lives of his three younger brothers and three-year-old sister on Sunday when he single handedly rescued each of them from their burning home. The Milton, Florida home caught fire at around 2 a.m. on Mother’s Day.  Justin’s mother, Tiffanie Jackson, was working the ... read more »

A teenager is getting the hero treatment from his Vancouver, Wash. community after he saved a toddler from a two-story fall on Sunday. The local sheriff’s department said the 18-month-old boy was supposed to be napping along with a 2-year-old boy when the children wondered through a damaged screen door in their apartment. The screen ... read more »

A Texas boy who wanted to help pay his dad’s medical bills turned lemons into lemonade — literally. Drew Cox, 6, opened a lemonade stand in his Gladwater, Texas, neighborhood in an effort to help with the large amount of debt his father had racked up from treatment for a rare form of cancer. What ... read more »

A fire that broke out in a barn in a far northern suburb of Chicago Wednesday night has reportedly claimed the lives of at least 18 horses. One brave teen however, Madison Wallraf, 15, reportedly went into the burning inferno to do her part in saving as many horses as she could. Wallraf says she ... read more »

Seven-year-old, Hunter Mehl, is a now a healthy second grader from Hobart, Indiana. As an infant and toddler, however, he experienced seizures and was treated at the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana. Now, the seven-year-old wants to give back. Riley Hospital offers comprehensive, family-centered care to children and promises never to turn a ... read more »

A quick-thinking middle school student jumped behind the wheel when his school bus driver passed out on the way to class Monday morning and drove the bus with 15 other students to safety. The driver of the school bus reportedly started waving his hands frantically and gasping for air, losing control of the bus. Milton ... read more »

A quick acting 8-year-old girl is being credited with saving her choking friend’s life when she jumped into action and administered the Heimlich maneuver. Samantha Kelley of Puyallup, Wash., was playing with a friend at her home, when the friend began choking on a tangerine slice, according to King 5. “I had just grabbed a ... read more »

These two Kindergarteners, Josiah and Nicholas, are as smart as they are cute.  Josiah definitely deserves the ‘student of the year’ award, after the 6-year-old saved his best friends life. Nicholas was apparently choking on a snack inside the lunch room of the West Avenue Elementary school in Texas when heroic, young Josiah stepped in ... read more »

As a tornado ravaged through her two-story house in Marysville, Ind., all Stephanie Decker could think about were her children. The storm completely demolished her home and she lost parts of both her legs in the process of shielding her 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter from falling debris. But in many ways Decker, 37, is ... read more »

Two California girls acted quickly to save their father and themselves when they noticed he was unresponsive and driving erratically. The father and two girls, ages-7-and-5, were coming home after spending the afternoon playing mini-golf with their dad. The older sister, Natalie, said that she asked her dad if he was alright after noticing something ... read more »

A woman who’s leg caught on fire in a Walmart parking lot in South Jordan, Utah has four young boys to thank for potentially saving her life. The four boys, ages 12 and 13, spotted the woman in distress, who appeared to be on fire, and acted to smother the flames. The boys, Chase Johnson, ... read more »

What looked for sure to be a ruined Christmas for one woman was saved by the doggedness of the employees at her local mall. After shopping at the Rimrock Mall in Billings, Montana, Carrie McNeese noticed that the envelope containing $300 of her Christmas shopping money was missing. The money was meant to buy the ... read more »

Stacie Crimm received the best news of her life in March when she found out she was pregnant. Doctors have told the 41 year old that she would never have kids and was overwhelmed with the news. A few months into the pregnancy, in July, Stacie was diagnosed with neck and head cancer from a ... read more »

Boston firefighters were called to a fire that destroyed 20 apartments on Monday morning in Roxbury, MA. When they arrived on the scene people were hanging from window ledges threatening to jump. Boston Fire Lieutenant Glenn McGillivray told WBZ-TV that the severe heavy smoke and fire made the rescues of the 15 people difficult. Herbet ... read more »