ABC News story on beach rescue by water polo coach/expert swimmer and good samaritan Robert Palmer, right on time to help boy and sister:STINSON BEACH, Calif. (KGO) --Rough waves triggered a record number of rescues at Stinson Beach in Marin County over the weekend. One rescuer was just enjoying his day at the beach, now he's being called a hero.There were 17 rescues at the beach -- 10 on Sunday,...[ Read More... ]

Humanity.

Massiah Browne, a 7-year-old boy from Sacramento, California:"I was just playing in the pool and then I saw a boy at the bottom of the pool," Massiah, a second-grade student, told "Good Morning America." "And I went to go get him."Massiah was swimming with relatives at the apartment complex where he lives with his mom and brother. He was in the pool with a 9-year-old relative, Savannah. He...[ Read More... ]

Like the saying goes with 'shirt off the back', Chicago native Maurice Anderson gave the boots off his feet to a homeless man in need on the train.  Another passenger on the train, Jessica Bell, shared the moment of his act of kindness on Facebook:Jessica Bell added 2 new photos — with Potus Polo at Chicago Transit Authority.January 12 at...[ Read More... ]

La Conchita, CA, watch video:A man risked his life to save a wild rabbit as it got dangerously close to flames from the Thomas Fire along Highway 1 in La Conchita.The daring rescue was captured by a news photographer who happened upon the scene Wednesday night. The man, who did not want to be interviewed, pulled over and was panicking as the rabbit he chased hopped right near large flames.As the...[ Read More... ]

San Jose great-grandfather Walter Wilson noticed a car had turned right onto the train tracks across Sunnyvale Avenue and had stopped, Thursday evening around 6pm.“I stopped and saw a Prius about 50 feet down the track,” Walter Wilson said.63-year-old Wilson stopped his car, ran down the tracks, and told the elderly woman in the driver's sear to back up.  She tried but got...[ Read More... ]

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Three men drive their boat up to a submerged convertible in the Louisiana deep flood waters, the woman screaming she is drowning.  They work to break the car window, and the car is continuing to sink. Boat passenger David Phung jumps out of the boat and onto her car and into the water, grabbing her and pulling her out of her car.  The woman is distraught over her...[ Read More... ]

'DONKEYS HELPING DONKEYS: When a donkey struggles to get over a fence at a non-profit animal protection sanctuary in Italy, he gets a helping hoof. "

Hero in the subway station in Manhattan:Jonathan Kulig, an engineer for utility company ConEdison, was in the middle of his commute at a New York City subway station when he heard a commotion and soon realized that a man fell onto the subway tracks.Jumping from the platform at the L train’s Third Avenue Station in Manhattan, Kulig was able to carry the man from the middle of the tracks and...[ Read More... ]

Sunday 2:30 am a car drove off a boat launch and into the Pascagoula River in Moss Point, Mississppi, because the driver was following GPS and didn't realize she was going into the water. The car, with 3 teenage girls inside, floated about 20 feet away from shore and started sinking.“They drove straight under the water,” 16-year-old Corion Evans told WLOX. “Like, only a little...[ Read More... ]