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• Dozens hurt after bus carrying high school students crashes into overpass

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  Six people were seriously injured and 37 suffered minor injuries after a bus carrying students home from a spring break trip to Europe crashed into an overpass

• Firefighters rescue man stuck in printing press

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  The Bridgeport Fire Department was dispatched “to extricate an employee whose left arm became wedged in between two press rollers"

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  EMS provider pulls neighbor from burning truck on way home

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  Gretna Rescue Squad 1st Lt. Pernice White jumped into action after seeing her neighbor’s truck on fire while driving home

• Photos: Firefighters rescue boy from arcade claw machine

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  Titusville Fire and Emergency Services Department rescued the boy who climbed into the machine from the back and became trapped

• Woman rescued after colliding with Detroit fire truck

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  The firefighters jumped out of the truck after the crash and extricated the woman from her vehicle

• 'Cracking the egg:' Road crash rescue involving an overturned vehicle

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  This involved technique, while rarely used, can enable rescuers to create enough space to extricate a victim safely

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  FDNY firefighters rescue woman, 3 children from underneath fallen tree

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  FDNY said the woman was pushing a stroller with two children inside and holding an infant when the Central Park tree fell on them

• 5 times "Jaws of Life" saved a life

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  These stories about Jaws of Life are truly remarkable

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  Exclusive: Field amputation difference between life and death

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  EMS, fire and hospital personnel describe interstate collision, patient entrapment and field amputation to save a man pinned inside his truck cab by 80,000 pounds of logs

• Calif. firefighters respond to car crash near fire station

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  Crews ran out to find a mangled car with an injured driver trapped inside

• Pa. firefighters remove teen's finger from ice cream machine

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  Firefighters cut open the machine's casing to slide the victim's hand out

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  NY firefighters save man from submerged vehicle

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  Firefighters and police broke the back passenger window of the car and cut the driver's seat belt before pulling the man free

• Girl, 15, pinned by 1,500-pound boulder badly hurt

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  The girl was visiting her grandparents and was playing in the backyard on the rock when it rolled onto her

• Watch: Calif. firefighters rescue crash victim using GPS location

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  Firefighters and police were initially unable to locate the crashed vehicle, but were able to do so after authorities used her phone to ping a location

• NY firefighters rescue man from submerged car

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  A rescue team put on wet suits and used cables to make their way out to the car, where the man was removed a few minutes later.

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