Rescue

AMERICAN FORK -- An American Fork city councilman and four city employees are getting credit for rescuing a woman and her young daughter from a burning house.

MONTE CRISTO-- Rescuers are trying to reach an injured snowmobiler who triggered an avalanche in the Ogden Valley.

The location is in a remote area off Curtis Creek Road outside of Monte Cristo, according to the Weber 911 Dispatch Center. A snowmobiler has reportedly suffered a broken femur in the accident.

A Lifeflight Helicopter is enroute to the scene, said dispatchers.

MANILA, Philippines  -- Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.

At least 13 people were killed and 40 are believed missing, most of them along the shore near the epicenter of the 6.9-magnitude quake that struck in a narrow strait just off Negros Island.

SOUTH JORDAN -- Four boys out to buy soda from a South Jordan store are being called heroes for rescuing a woman on fire.

LOGAN -- Families of three children rescued from an overturned car in the Logan River are pushing for officials to make changes to a stretch of road they consider dangerous.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Three children trapped in an upturned car after it skidded into the Logan River were released Monday from a hospital, two days after they were saved by several passers-by.