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Rescuers Find Rubble at End of Collapsed Tunnel in Idaho Mine
By not in system - AOL NewsMULLAN, Idaho - Rescue efforts have reached a section of a collapsed tunnel where they had hoped to find an Idaho silver miner who has been missing underground for more than a week, a Hecla Mining Co. official said Saturday. But crews using bore holes and probes found only sand and rubble where they had been searching for an open section of mine, said spokeswoman Melanie Hennessey. Jesse Tinsley, AP This Nov. 24 file photo shows mine workers inside the Lucky Friday mine in Mullan, Idaho. Crews are working to reach 53-year-old miner Larry Marek more than a week after a tunnel ...
Police Officer Pulls Man From Burning Wreck [VIDEO]
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Faithful Dog Alerts Japanese Camera Crew to Injured Pooch [VIDEO]
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsThis week's lesson in loyalty and friendship comes from two dogs in the devastated coastal Arahama area of Japan. A Japanese camera crew came across one of the dogs pacing frantically around the apocalyptic scene and discovered it was actually protecting another pooch lying motionless nearby. At first the crew thought the second dog was dead, according to a translation of the voiceover by The Metro. But he eventually raised his dirty head and received a pat from his friend. Both dogs have since been rescued, according to a Facebook post by Kenn Sakuri, president of Butch Japan, a dog and cat ...
A Few Miracles Offer Small Hope to Traumatized Japan
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsThere is little solace in Japan right now as the country copes with a trifecta of disasters -- earthquake, tsunami and possible nuclear meltdown. But, as is often the case in the midst of utter devastation, there are already a few stories of miraculous survival that may engender a small amount of hope in the battered nation. On Tuesday, a 70-year-old woman from Iwate prefecture was rescued from her house, which had been washed away four days earlier by the tsunami. Sai Abe was reportedly suffering from hypothermia but had no other life-threatening injuries. A man in his 20s was pulled from a ...
Man Dies After Falling Into Nevada Mine Shaft
By not in system - AOL NewsRENO, Nev. - A father of five children has died after falling into a Nevada mine shaft so deep and treacherous that rescuers had to abandon efforts to reach him while he was still alive, officials said Saturday. Devin Westenskow, 28, of Evanston, Wyo., worked at a geothermal drilling operation in Nevada and had gone exploring Wednesday with two friends during his off-hours when he fell 190 feet into the open shaft northeast of Reno. Video Courtesy of KSL.com His family thanked rescue workers in a prepared statement that also identified Westenskow. "We feel they did everything ...
After Quake, Woman Left Voice Mail: 'I Don't Think I'm Going to Make It'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsAnne Vos dove under her desk when her office in downtown Christchurch, New Zealand, started shaking. Trapped there after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake brought down much of the office building all around her, Vos called her son. "Hi Rob, it's Mom. There's been an earthquake ... I'm trapped under a desk," she said on his voice mail. "I don't think I'm going to make it." But the receptionist and mother of two did make it out -- 24 hours later. Rescue crews extricated her and another woman today from separate locations under the rubble of the Pyne Gould Corp. building where they worked. Until her ...
Determined Rescuers Save Dog Stranded on Frozen Pond
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsAfter several failed attempts, rescuers donned survival gear and retrieved a lost dog that had been skittering around the frozen surface of a 160-acre reservoir for days. Gibson, a 4-year-old Sheltie mix, had been missing for several days when a slew of callers rang the nonprofit Animal Rescue League of Boston to report a dog stuck on the iced-over surface of Fresh Pond, a closed-off reservoir in Cambridge, Mass. Animal Rescue League of Boston Gibson, a 4-year-old Sheltie mix, was rescued Wednesday from the iced-over surface of Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Mass., after several failed ...
Australian Teens Rescued After Using Sex Doll as Raft
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThar she blows up! A couple in Australia was rescued after attempting to float down a river near Melbourne on an inflatable sex doll. The man and woman, both 19 years old, were drifting down the Yarra River in Victoria -- a state recently afflicted by severe flooding -- when the woman lost her grip on the sex toy in increasingly turbulent water on Sunday, according to The Daily Telegraph. ...
Brazilian Man Rescued After Being Buried Alive in Mud for 16 Hours
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsRescue workers in Brazil who heard "muffled noises" coming from a pile of mud and debris dug for three hours to pull out a man buried alive for 16 hours under his wrecked house. Marcelo Fonseca's dramatic rescue from under 13 feet of mud on Monday was videotaped by a journalist friend, Luciano Zimbrao, who did not know who the buried man was until he was finally dragged out and placed on a stretcher, Brazil media reported. Fonseca, 42, who was seen on TV with bruises and scratches from his ordeal, was hospitalized with a liver infection, but doctors say he should make a full recovery, ...
Dramatic Rescue Saves Woman From Deadly Mudslides in Brazil
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA single rope was seemingly all that was left between a woman and certain death today in Brazil, as she stood on the roof of a home being quickly swallowed by rushing water and earth amid the country's worst mudslides in a generation. With the ground disappearing beneath her, the woman took a leap of faith, grabbing a rope rescuers threw to her from a neighboring building before jumping straight into the torrent of mud as she was lifted to safety. Video of the rescue shows the woman clinging to her dog, then finally being forced to let the animal go, as she braves the brown rapids ...
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