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• Off-duty firefighters save teen’s life while playing basketball

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  Columbia Fire Department Captain Kareem Spain and Kiah Thomas were playing a pickup game with some high school students when a teen collapsed

• Off-duty Wis. firefighter attacked helping woman who collapsed

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  West Allis Firefighter and EMT Chad Staszak was assisting a woman who had collapsed at a music festival when he was struck in the head from behind

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• Video: Off-duty responders help pull residents from burning home

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  An off-duty firefighter and police lieutenant, along with a retired fire chief, used ladders to rescue residents from the two-story home

• Firefighter, civilian honored for saving man from burning truck

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  Firefighter Jeremy Menges and John Werner helped try to save a driver at the scene of the crash, and now the Kansas Highway Patrol has named them honorary troopers

• NY responders save girl from drowning while visiting Fla.

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  New York State Trooper Matthew Colwell and firefighter Jessica Campet pulled the child from the deep end of the pool at the La Quinta Inn

• Off-duty fire captain helps police rescue struggling swimmer

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  Capt. Thomas Johannessen was swimming for exercise when he saw the San Francisco Police Department Marine Unit trying to help a swimmer in distress

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  Veteran NH firefighter dies in scuba diving accident

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  Lt. Benjamin Tatro was diving recreationally with other people by the wreckage of the coastal tanker Chester A. Poling when the accident occurred

• Off-duty firefighter helps girl who fell into fire pit while camping

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  Mike Heddleston jumped into action when Charlotte Chapin, 10, fell headfirst into the pit during a father-and-daughter campout

• Fla. firefighter cleared of wrongdoing in off-duty fire response

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  "Based on what we know after reviewing official reports ... it would appear more likely that we should issue Capt. Jay Schwartz a commendation"

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  Fire capt. under investigation for battling blaze while off duty

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  Jay Schwartz can be seen in a video picking up a hose once a fire truck arrives and spraying a burning house without wearing any protective gear

• Off-duty firefighter helps rescue 3 kids, mother from house fire

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  Mark Regina helped a trapped mother get her small children out of the home through a window after he smelled smoke nearby

• Off-duty firefighter-EMT saves woman having stroke at movie theater

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  Dan Stalfire was at the movies with his family watching “I Can Only Imagine” when he heard a woman struggling in his row

• Off-duty firefighter hurt after pulling driver from burning vehicle

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  Four people, including the off-duty firefighter, were injured and one of them was airlifted to a hospital

• Off-duty firefighter rescues woman who fell in active volcano crater

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  Firefighter John Conway, who was on vacation in Bali, carried the woman 5,600 feet down Mount Batur after she fell off of a viewing platform

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  Quiet Warrior: Off-duty fire captain who saved couple from plane crash recalls 'miracle' save

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  Avalon Fire Department Captain John Meffert was on his way home for a Fourth of July getaway when Frank and Janan Pisano's plane hit his car and crashed onto the freeway

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