emergencies and accidents

"They couldn’t understand what he was on about but directed him to the police."

First responders see a vast array of scenarios, many of them gruesome, while on the job -- so when one says that they "have never seen anything like it" about ...

On Saturday night, police in Slidell, Louisiana, were alerted to an accident in which a train hit a person who had been on the tracks. The train engineer told police ...

Emily Johnson, 31, and her husband Michael, of Vacaville, California, were expecting their second child -- but they weren't expecting the way he'd make his big debut. About a week ...

Around 10 p.m. Saturday, Laura Larsen was about to cross the Yakima River in Yakima County, Washington, something she'd done dozens of times without incident. She later told the Yakima ...

Around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, a twin-engine Britton-Norman BN-2 plane crashed while landing at Welke Airport near Beaver Island, Michigan. BREAKING: https://t.co/CLLsJH8GnC — WILX News 10 (@wilxTV) November 14, 2021 ...

Paul Murphy was out for a jog in Scotts Valley, California, when he came across something that really got his pulse racing: Smoke billowing out of a house. He approached ...

When 40-year-old Katherine Janness of Midtown, Georgia, didn't come home from walking the dog one morning in July, her partner Emma Clark was concerned. Janness often took their dog, a ...

While it's true that there are many questionable features on personal electronic devices these days, and they can draw users into a pit of mindless scrolling, they definitely have their ...

A 12-year-old boy scout is being recognized for helping rescue a couple who got lost while hiking in Hawaii back in August. The couple, JD and Aimee, had only intended ...

With the technological takeover that has happened in many young people's lives, it has become rarer to see kids outside exploring and doing "normal" kid things. Many school-age children are ...

On Monday morning, an Easton Area School District bus in Pennsylvania carrying 29 elementary school students veered off the road and into Bushkill Creek. It was around 7:30 a.m. when ...

Landmark Theatre is a well-known historical site in Syracuse, New York, but on Friday morning first responders got a different kind of show than most people would expect. On Friday ...

As chaos surged through the deadly mayhem of the crowd at Houston's Astroworld Festival in November, rapper Travis Scott continued to perform -- even as fans begged for the show ...

Many people grow concerned as soon as they start getting the sniffles, run a fever or are generally feeling "unwell." It could be allergies, it could be the common cold ...

Sometimes, despite their best efforts, pet owners are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to paying for care after serious accidents. Heartwrenching pleas for help ...

When someone goes missing, the hope of finding them dwindles with each day that passes. Eighteen days is a long time -- especially for a child -- to go missing, ...

Awhile back, there was a trend to test what your dog would do if you pretended to collapse while on a walk. Owners recorded and uploaded videos of their dogs' ...

When a construction worker in Scottsdale, Arizona, fell into a 25-foot trench at a worksite on Monday morning, a fellow worker jumped down to rescue him -- but he also ...

Jonathan Cedillo and Vanessa Sandoval, an engaged couple from Jurupa Valley, California, were excited to welcome their baby daughter into the world. They were surprised when Sandoval went into labor ...