(Fox40) - Officer Justin Freeman was in the right place at the right time Saturday. "I was driving to a different call coming down on Florin Road and I saw the smoke," he said. His routine patrol turned into a rescue mission. Flames ripped through a home on the 7000 block [...]

(Indiana Times) - A puppy rescued from a burning building is now breathing, all thanks to the efforts of a firefighter who gave it a mouth-to-snout resuscitation for 20 minutes. The team of firefighters rushed to rescue the owner named Crystal Lamirande and her dog, Nalu from their burning apartment in Santa [...]

(AJC) - When he was growing up in metro Atlanta, Matias Ferreira attended the 1996 Olympics. That was when he first developed respect for men in uniform, according to a report in liherald.com. That helped lead Ferreira, a Morrow High graduate, to join the Marines. Although he had both legs amputated [...]

(You4State.com) - BETHESDA, Md. - "To continue that spirit of service and my passion, I've looked at the isolation of our neighborhoods and the vulnerability that many neighbors have to storms,” said Richard Hoye, Bethesda resident and retired firefighter. Every snow storm, Bethesda residents can count on Hoye to clear Lucas [...]

(FireEngineering.com) - Roy De Young, Jr. has been a volunteer firefighter in Maywood (NJ) since he was 16. Since then he has grown into a six-foot-plus big man with a big heart. The local Department of Public Works supervisor stopped at the ShopRite in nearby Paramus to pick up a few [...]

(TimesDaily) - Shane Mansell was taking a break in the middle of the weigh-ins at last week’s High School Fishing Association’s competition on Lake Guntersville. Suddenly, someone ran up to him, telling him that one of the contestant’s father was having a heart attack. Being a trained emergency medical technician, [...]