Lt. Kevin Van Kley heard the call over the scanner and rushed to the scene. He pulled the young child to safety after finding her pinned in the rubble.
Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Kniffin was pinned between two SUVs, one of them on fire.
Officer Michael Prather of the the Helena (AL) Police Department is being praised for conducting life-saving CPR on individuals in medical distress for three consecutive years.
Officer Patrick Niles—who is also a certified EMT—provided life-saving care as other first responders arrived at the scene.
The American Red Cross has recently honored an officer with the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Police Department for saving the life of an accident victim involved in a vehicle collision.
Both officers crouching over the girl and tapped her back as she lay on her side near the pool, her appendages turning darker shades of purple.
An officer with the New Jersey Transit Police Department used CPR to save the life of an infant that was discovered unresponsive in the bathroom of a train station.
An off-duty officer with the Onalaska (MN) Police Department who rescued two men in danger of drowning in a lake over Independence Day weekend is being hailed by the family as a hero.
Police responded to the scene and found the child shot twice, once in the arm and once in the stomach.
Right in front of their eyes, an 18-wheeler jackknifed and slid off I-75 near the I-75/I-475 split, with the front wheels of the tractor jumping over the guardrail. In the process, the tractor-trailer knocked two other vehicles off the highway and down an embankment – trapping a young girl in a car that wound up on top of a vehicle with a family of seven inside.