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(WIDK by Nora Poggi)Peruvian Miners were rescued after an explosion trapped them into an abandoned mine.

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Nine Peruvian Miners spent six days trapped 650 feet below ground, in a copper mine abandoned since the 80s, after an explosion they started themselves turned bad, and got help through a hose set before the accident, making it out alive by walking through a tunnel built by rescuers.

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(WIDKY By AnnaMarie Houlis)It’s good to know that our firefighters and police officers have that do whatever it takes attitude.

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Rescue crews were left with no other choice but to use a chainsaw to cut a whole in the wall of a home with a suspicious “residual stink,” to rescue George Sargent, a 600 pound man.

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(WIDK By Nick Miller) – A vacationing family in Florida tugged a beached dolphin stranded on a sandbar to safety.

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Kerry Ware, 41, and her family were vacationing on her parent’s boat in Florida when they noticed a helpless beached dolphin stuck on a sandbar, and set the dolphin free by pulling him back into the ocean.

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - Two middle school students save an entire bus from tragedy.

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Two seventh graders of Milton, Washington, Jeremy Wuitschick and Johnny Wood, are being hailed as heros after saving a bus from crashing when the bus driver had a heart attack.  Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy)A heroic mother dog saves her pup struggling to get out of a swimming pool.

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Video captures a Golden Lab jumping into a swimming pool after seeing her young pup unable to pull itself out and dragging him out of danger.

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) - A seized South African man is saved by his girlfriend using Twitter.

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Lynn Peters, after receiving a message from her boyfriend, taken hostage after a carjacking in Johannesburg, turned to Twitter with a message for help that led to a city wide mission to find and rescue the frightened man.

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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - Sonic the hedgehog would have never been caught up in a situation like this.

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A man driving his $100,000 ferrari saw a hedgehog in his headlights and swerved out of the way, sparing the critter’s life while setting himself back about $60,000.

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) Every kid should have a grandma like this.

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An 8-year-old boy tried to save his grandmother Clara Almazo, 57, before she died trying to save him from an on-coming SUV while walking home from church on Thursday in Staten Island, New York. 

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm)Man’s best friend comes through again.

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A 12-year-old pit bull named Kilo took a bullet to save his owner, Justin Becker, from an intruder posing as a delivery man, in Staten Island, New York Saturday and survives.

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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - A man was shot to death in his own home by two armed assailants while cleaning out his garage with his 8-year-old son.

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Fred Martin Jr., 28, from Inglewood, California used his body as a shield to protect his son when two unidentified males entered the garage and began firing.

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(WIDK by Nora Poggi) - One heroic surfer fights back during a shark attack.

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Surfer Joshua Holley, 28, survived a shark attack by punching 10-foot tiger shark in the face twice, after it bit his left foot in the ocean on Oahu’s North Shore in Hawaii.

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(WIDK by Meggan Gittens) - Heroes can be found everywhere you look.

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After several raids in the Philippines, vet and animal welfare officers rescued nearly 300 pit bulls from a dog-fighting ring hidden deep inside a local forest.

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(WIDK By Mike Finiello) - A Wisconsin woman makes a bitter-sweet accomplishment when she takes control in the sky.

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An 80 year old woman with zero flying experience landed an small eight seat plane after her 81-year-old pilot-husband suddenly collapsed.

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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis)Tourist operators warned people not to swim in DuGong Bay, but this employee did not listen.

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Tara Hawkes, 23, formerly of Busselton, was swimming at Dugong Bay off her cruise ship True North, when a crocodile bit one of her legs.

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(WIDK By Olivia Roat) - A kindergarten teacher gives the father of one of her students a second chance at life by donating a kidney.

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Marie Bell, a teacher from Lewisville, Texas, donated her kidney to 50-year-old Marshall Smith, the father of her 5-year-old student Sean.

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy)An 8-year-old crime sleuth catches a burglar.

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Landon Crabtree,8, from Manchester, Tenn. outwitted a thief who committed a string of burglaries in the Manchester neighborhood by using a tracking device app he had downloaded onto his stolen iPad.

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(WIDK By Hannah Tool)- A Florida dog has proven herself a hero after saving a teen from a sex offender.

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Mabeline, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, came to the rescue of the 17-year-old girl who, while volunteering at the Friends of Strays animal shelter and taking the dog for a walk, was assailed by Michael Paul Bacon, a registered sex offender.  Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - A fortunate toddler is alive today after falling from a 6th floor apartment.

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The 4-year-old boy fell from his grandmother’s window when he decided to adventure around the apartment after grandma went out to run some errands. Luckily, he landed on a ledge a few feet below the window.

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