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• 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.

• Watch: Bystanders, police rescue man from burning car

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  After two vehicles crashed, one of the vehicles plunged into an embankment and caught fire

• Driver safely exits SUV dangling from Texas parking garage

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  Authorities say the safety wire became tangled in a wheel, preventing the SUV from falling several stories to the ground

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  Calif. woman impaled in vehicle crash

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  Fire captain: “It is one of the most horrific calls I’ve ever been on”

• Fla. firefighters save kitten stuck in drain cap

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  Firefighters asked a local veterinarian to sedate the kitten while they sawed off the drain cap

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  Dallas officer: Firefighters, paramedics 'didn't get enough credit' for bravery in face of ambush

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  One police officer remarked that members of the dept. insisted on reaching wounded officers during live gunfire

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  Mercedes-Benz app gives firefighters 3-D view of cars

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  New augmented reality app shows “x-ray” of fuel lines and cables on live vehicles

• Firefighters rescue 2 from Phoenix storm drain

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  Firefighters spent nearly an hour using tools to gain access into the storm drain and rescue the victims

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