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Two college students in their early 20s, using a boat made up of Home Depot buckets and two kiddie pools, had to be rescued from the Pacific Ocean over the weekend when their homemade boat drifted too far from shore.

More than a dozen people formed a human chain and fought the rough tide to rescue a woman in Panama City Beach.

Play time almost turned into a deathly situation when a 7-year-old boy from Florida ended up in the back of a trash truck after climbing into his Grandmother's trash can. Thankfully, a vigilant sanitation worker was able to turn off the truck's blade before the boy was hurt.

Nearly 24 hours after being reported lost at sea a 62-year-old man was found clinging to his capsized boat.

The alligator rescue was caught on camera.

The little girl told Cpl. Collins that she went into the pond because she wanted to swim.

While a horrible storm has them shaken and scared, the Chick-fil-A employees provide them with shelter and food.

Governor John Bel Edwards says the state is working with the Cajun Navy to coordinate efforts.

The heroic efforts of the rescuers in Texas is definitely something to raise a glass, or in this case a bottle cap, to.

Wings of Rescue is flying 88 dogs and 20 cats from Acadiana Animal Aid to San Diego in an effort to make room for any animals displaced by flooding in Texas and Louisiana.

An infant and a 2-year old were nearly dead when a few strangers came to the rescue and saved their lives.

The video of the incredible rescue in Baton Rouge of the woman and her dog has been seen by countless people all over the world. A Baton Rouge man claims he now has that red Miata from the video, and that it's a stolen vehicle.

A Louisiana man braved three feet of water to save eleven Dachshunds from a flooded house.

Watch this daring rescue of a man who was clinging to a tree in the middle of flood waters earlier this week in Amite.

A woman was about to jump from a high rise window when a firefighter came to her rescue. He not only saved her life here, but he also gave a swift kick to the face!! The woman sitting on the ledge was suicidal and those attempting to rescue her had to act fast...

A Florida woman and her three children were allegedly being held hostage by her boyfriend when she offered to order a pizza on the Pizza Hut app, which included a message that led to their rescue.

Simon Cowell can add “hero” to his long, long list of achievements: The former ‘American Idol‘ and current ‘X Factor‘ judge came to the rescue of nine people who were trapped on a sinking boat in France!

Four people recently found themselves in a precarious situation when a plane crashed into a ferris wheel at a rural festival in Australia, trapping two men in the plane and two children on the ride, MSNBC reports.

This shows that you don't have to be a fireman, policeman or other traditional career to be a hero. Check out this security camera surveillance where a kid decides to ride on the wrong side of the escalator (hint, he's not standing on the tread, but hanging on the outside rail).

His name is Hiromitsu Shinkawa. He is 60 years old and for 2 days he was floating on the rooftop of his house 10 miles out to sea. He is believed to have been washed out when the tsunami that roared ashore in his home town of Minami Soma (Fukushima prefecture) retreated back out to sea, taking Shinkawa with it.