Pa. Paramedics Save Ducklings From Drain
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WEST LAWN, Pa. - Real estate agent Liliana Gomez told sales manager Larry Kitchen about a duck she saw peering down a storm drain on her way to work at GMAC Real Estate Premier Network in Wyomissing, and the two drove back to look.
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Paramedics, it turns out, face a high risk of being injured on the job.
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CARNEGIE, Pa. - The residents and business owners in this tiny Pittsburgh suburb have begun to clean up from the weekend's flooding caused by Hurricane Ivan...
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Five children &amp;#151; four of them siblings &amp;#151; drowned during a church outing when they were caught in a river&#039;s current, apparently while trying to help a sixth child who was rescued, authorities and the victims&#039; relatives said Monday.
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By Chris De Benedetti  FREMONT -- Environmental groups are disputing it, but state officials say a potential crisis involving endangered fish at the Delta pumps, which threatened the Tri-City area water supply, has been averted.
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By Chris Pollock, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 2--There is such a thing as deadly heat, as the residents of Freemansburg found out firsthand over this week when more than 100 dead fish appeared at the northern end of the Lehigh Canal in the borough.
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STRATFORD, N.J. - A 90-year-old woman who fell into a dry cesspool in her backyard and was trapped for more than an hour was saved after a mail carrier heard her calls for help.
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By Sian Powell  URGENT calls have been made to teach children water safety skills after a young boy drowned in a Nuneaton lake.
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Firefighters rescued dozens of squealing pigs Sunday night as they extinguished a fire in a pig sty near a garbage dump.  Two piglets died, while dozens of others were rescued in the fire.
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Emergency workers in boats rescued people from cars and homes left stranded by rising water Wednesday as heavy rain doused southern Minnesota and caused flash flooding.
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Aug. 22 -- Firefighters and volunteers steered boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking residents and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and Plains reached Ohio.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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A school of Dolphins has saved a group of swimmers from a great white shark attack. The amazing rescue happened when lifeguard Rob Howes took his daughter and her friends for a swim off the northern New Zealand coast.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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NEW YORK  - Adding an advanced life support capability to emergency medical services increases the chances of survival for people in respiratory distress, according to a Canadian report in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
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POCATELLO, Idaho - Firefighters resuscitated four cats and an albino rat from a charred apartment in southeastern Idaho.  The animals received oxygen through a special mask designed for small animals that the department got two years ago.
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Giving rescue workers training to administer drugs and insert a tube down the throat of someone with life-threatening breathing problems can save lives, Canadian researchers reported on Wednesday.