Firefighters rescue guinea pig from Action Man jam
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Firefighters in Birmingham, England swung into action to rescue a guinea pig called Heidi after she got stuck inside an Action Man toy car.
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A stray giraffe in Zimbabwe is rescued by police after villagers tried to kill it for its meat, local media reports.
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The three-man crew of an Irish fishing boat which went on fire off the Kerry coast this morning were rescued after they were forced to take to a life raft.
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A man escaped unscathed after a wild boar chased him around a hospital parking lot in southwestern Poland, a news agency reported Thursday.
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The Associated Press  MECHANICSVILLE  Fire struck the Richmond Times-Dispatch printing plant in Hanover County on Saturday as today's edition was being printed.  The fire started shortly after noon, apparently in a folder on one of the newspaper's three presses.
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Rescuers succeeded in freeing a minke whale that washed up on a beach in southeastern Brazil, the fire department said Thursday.
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Montgomery County firefighters responded to Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring this morning after a construction worker found what he thought might be the remains of a pipe bomb but instead it turned out to be an item known as an improvised launching device.
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Rescue operation under way after trawler fire leaves 23 crew members stranded without power.
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By PAUL J. WEBER WEST ORANGE, Texas - Sam Henry swept dead pigs off Highway 87 two days after Hurricane Rita tossed them there. Then his job turned really unpleasant.
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By MICHELLE FAUL  COCORICO, Mozambique - Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Two firefighters die while trying to rescue someone trapped by a fire at a block of flats.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A family escaped a fire that destroyed their home thanks to their toy poodle, Teddy...
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By Paul OâHare and Victoria Mitchell, Scottish Press Association. The RAF and the Royal Navy were tonight involved in a rescue operation in the Atlantic after a fire broke out on a Canadian submarine.
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Ten people trapped in a lift at the Glasgow Science Tower are rescued by fire crews.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - When Christine Gamache was driving along Interstate 205 and saw a pig fall out the back of a tractor-trailer rig, she didn't just scratch her head and drive on. She pulled over and stood by the 500-pound animal, possibly averting a freeway pile-up, the State Patrol said.
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UNIONTOWN, Pa. - A police officer used a Taser to subdue a python that had wrapped itself around a man's arm and would not let go.
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A pit bull who was recently adopted by a family after wondering onto a construction site may have save a teen girl from a house fire on Friday.