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Photographer recounts burning car rescue

Last updated Friday, August 17, 2012 - 3:56pm

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. — When a sport utility vehicle ran off a rural stretch of interstate and slammed into pine trees in Mississippi, nearly two dozen people rushed to help two sisters who were trapped inside the burning vehicle.

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Woman saved from burning car in SLC cited for DUI

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 8:48am

SALT LAKE CITY — Police say a woman whose car crashed hundreds of feet down a hill in Salt Lake City and burst into flames last week has been cited for driving under the influence.

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American Fork worker pulled from collapsed trench

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 7:51am

AMERICAN FORK — A Utah man suffered a broken leg and other injuries when a sewer line trench collapsed, burying him above the waist.

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SLC construction workers pull woman from burning car

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 10, 2012 - 9:41am

SALT LAKE CITY — Fire officials say five construction workers saved a woman whose car crashed hundreds of feet down a hill in Salt Lake City and burst into flames.

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Rescuers trying to reach teens stranded on cliff

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 11:45am

SALT LAKE CITY — Rescuers are trying to come down with two teenagers stuck a cliff in Little Cottonwood Canyon who were stranded overnight.

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Hiker rescued near Malan’s Peak

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, August 5, 2012 - 10:31pm

OGDEN — A man in his early 50s had to be hoisted off the mountain near Malan’s Peak by helicopter Sunday night.

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Another hiker rescued from Mount Olympus

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 9:38am

SALT LAKE CITY — Search and rescue crews found a 40-year-old man who got lost while hiking Mount Olympus.

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Father, daughter rescued from Mount Olympus

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 5:04pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A father and his daughter have been rescued from Mount Olympus near Salt Lake City.

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Injured hiker helps save injured rescuer

Anita Creamer The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 7:24am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a remote stretch of rugged granite landscape in Shasta Trinity Forest, Air Force Maj. Jeremy Kilburn, a 34-year-old critical care pulmonologist, broke his leg while hiking last week.

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Ranger rescues two men from bay

Mike McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 10:46pm

WILLARD — A Utah State Parks ranger rescued two 19-year-olds Tuesday after their canoe capsized in Willard Bay.

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Woman hoisted out of Waterfall Canyon

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 8:49pm

OGDEN -- A woman was hoisted out of Waterfall Canyon by a helicopter Saturday afternoon and carried to safety while hanging in the wind.

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2 Texas men rescued from S. Utah's Paria Canyon

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 5:37pm

PAGE, Ariz. -- Two men from Texas who got stranded while hiking near the Arizona-Utah border have been rescued.

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Inside the rescue of Idaho plane crash survivors

Katy Moeller The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Sunday, June 3, 2012 - 7:55am

A miracle cellphone signal.

The perfect app.

More than 50 people slogging through the snowy wilderness in rugged Owyhee County on Memorial Day weekend.

Great training, cooperation and good luck combined to save three people whose plane crashed late May 26 into the mountains near the Idaho-Oregon border.

12:08 a.m.

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3 rescued from Idaho plane crash

Contributed The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Monday, May 28, 2012 - 6:58am

SILVER CITY, Idaho -- Three people have been rescued from the site of an airplane crash in rural Owyhee County Sunday.

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As personnel hang around the rescue helicopter and apparatus behind them, William Hickman, 13, left, his little brother Patrick, 9, and his mother, Heather Hickman field questions from news crews at Snohomish County Volunteer Search & Rescue in Snohomish, Wash., Monday May 21, 2012 following a harrowing rescue of young William from a ledge near the top of 270-foot Wallace Falls Sunday. (AP Photo/The Herald, Dan Bates)

7th-grader rescued from ledge of 270-foot waterfall

Jennifer Sullivan, Sandi Doughton The Seattle Times

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:23am

SEATTLE -- The 13-year-old Burien, Wash., boy who was rescued Sunday from a ledge just feet from 270-foot Wallace Falls said that he's fortunate he walked away from the ordeal with little more than cuts and scrapes on his feet.

"I feel lucky I got through it all," William Hickman said Monday from his home. "I think the rescuers should feel like heroes; they saved me. I'm lucky to be alive."

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