i didn't have time to think about being scared. amazing action unbelievable rescues. a mother and her children trapped inside the twisted wreckage of a car. >> it did go through our minds that this vehicle could possibly go over the edge. >> firefighters who demonstrate courage anytime, anyplace. >> so basically you're hanging 80 feet below the helicopter, which is not the plan i had in my mind. >> we first got on scene and looked over the edge, and it was like oh, this is a lot bigger than we thought. >> acts of bravery from every

day heroes. >> i hear a yell for help and i immediately started running for the door. >> and nerves of steel in the face of imminent danger. >> we had a really small window to get everyone out of this tunnel or it's going to go from a rescue to a recovery. caught on camera -- help is on the way. rescuers race to save a family trapped inside a wreck and hanging on the edge. >> i've never seen anything like this in 34 years. >> january 12 2012. an afternoon commute becomes a nightmare when a tractor-trailer slams into a car carrying a mother and her two children in california. >> they actually were pushed into the center of the bridge.

at that point, the tractor went over the edge of the bridge and then the trailer followed and crushed a car as it was going over the bridge. >> the 18 wheeler plummets 100 feet and explodes, instantly killing truck driver charles allison junior. but amazingly, kelly groves and her two daughters, ten year old sage and ten week old my low are alive. trapped inside the twisted wreckage of the car. santa barbara fire department battalion chef woody and paramedic greg knuckles are among the first to arrive on scene. >> when we first went out we thought it was just a vehicle accident. we didn't know we had a tractor-trailer rig that was on fire and basically went other the car and crushed the car and exploded. >> you could tell from the radio traffic and the discussions that were happening, just how complex the rescue was. and you just sort of knew that

it was kind of a different unique call. >> but unique only begin does describe this accident. rescuers are stunned to find more than half of the car dangling over the side of the bridge. news cameras and a firefighters' helmet cam capture the dramatic incident as it unfolds. >> approximately 70% of the car was hanging in midair over the edge of the bridge with 30% still stuck on the bridge itself. i've never seen anything like this. >> the wreckage is only the first shock. because all three victims are not only alive but also conscious. and looking straight down at a deadly 100 foot fall. >> the whole bottom of the car opened up, and she was just hanging by a thread with her seat belt on. she was saying to the firefighters get me out and that her ten year old and ten week old was trapped.

>> we could hear her ten year old sort of groaning inkpree henceably. so that was a big moment a real relief to know she was still alive. i remember saying we need to be strong and these children need your strength. >> but kelly's strength is fading fast. she's crushed against the driver's side window while at the same time reaching behind to hold up her infant daughter in the car seat. the rescue team gets a harness to kelly, but it's little comfort as she stares through the gaping hole beneath her feet. greg knuckles stands by but feels helpless. >> she wanted a net. she said can you get a net? and it was just having to tell her i can't. i don't have a net. i wish i had a net right now. i wish we had a net, but i can't. and here she's looking down. and that was hard to tell someone. >> we'll get you out as soon as we can. you're doing good. >> firefighters stabilize the

wreck by tying it down with ropes and try to pry it open. they realize they may be causing a bigger problem. >> each time we use the jaws of life to cut the top of the car open, actually the bottom of the car opened even further. so that was a real problem for us that she could slip through the bottom of the car. >> the biggest moment was when i heard the cutting team say hey, this vehicle is moving. and that scared me. >> kelly hears the concerns of the rescue team and want does know what is happening. greg knuckles is faced with the difficult task of keeping her focused on survival. >> i had to say to her, this is what's happening. there's a lot of stuff you can't see, and there's a lot of lines on this vehicle. we're doing the best we can. >> i didn't know if this car could go over the edge and there were moments that i thought, you know, yeah. this could happen. so that was real difficult. trying to maintain my composure.

and not essentially think i'm lying to her. just trying to keep the game face on so to speak. i think she probably knew what could have happened and realized she was lucky too. so it was amazing to see her strength. >> the lives of three people hang in the balance. then news arrives that some would call a coincidence others a miracle. a convoy of navy see bes has been stuck in traffic from the accident on the opposite side of 9 highway. >> we were like hey, we have a forklift that has the kaepbility to be on this side of the highway and reach underneath the car. >> they're transporting heavy equipment to a nearby military base and they just happen to have the exact tool needed to help save this family. a forklift. >> they were able to come from the opposite side of the bridge, put their forks underneath the back tire of the car and hold it

up and stabilize it for us and also created a platform us for us to get a firefighter over the edge. >> i didn't think twice. i just went out thayer and started working. the most important thing was to have the ten year old removed. she was the most critical. >> but they must maneuver the forecast lift without moving the wreck and the victims inside. >> if we tried to lift it up they were afraid the vehicle would crush her worse and put her in a worse position. so we put it on there near the rear tires and supported the main structural part of the car that's hanging off the freeway. >> the plan works. the ten year old is the first to be taken out and rushed to a helicopter. >> being in the military you try not to let emotions to it get the best of you. i think the hardest part was the at any year old girl. hearing she was all right made it worth every moment of it. ten week old milo is freed with

minor injuries leaving only kelly trapped in the front seat. >> now it's time for you to get out. >> it won't be easy. firefighters have cut through the top of the car, creating a small exit. but every inch kelly moves must be carefully core graphed. shards of grass and metal surround her body. >> we had to manipulate her feet while she's being pulled by the rescuers up top. and we had to be careful lifting her up. but actually she helped get herself out a lot. amazing her strength. >> the rescue team makes one final pull and after almost two hours, kelly escapes the mangled wreck that held her captive. >> i vividly remember once the mother was extricated watching her get pulled out of the car and standing on that forklift and i remember taking one of the deepest breaths i'd taken in a long time and letting it out.

>> kelly and ten year old sage are more seriously injured than baby milo but survive their incredible ordeal. some who were there believe faith length a hand as well. >> we were in the right place at the right time. >> it was amazing that it was there. and i started to wonder maybe these angels wear camouflage. i don't know. because it was bigger than me. >> just looking back on it, we were lucky at times having the seabees show up. it was miraculous that they showed up to help us out. coming up, a crane operator makes a critical decision, 220 feet above a raging inferno. >> there was no way could i go down past that flame. >> when caught on camera, help is on the way, continues. ♪ ♪ honey, is he too into this car

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a fire out of control and a man trapped above smoke and flames. the dramatic attempt does rescue him before it's too late are all caught on camera. >> so i just sit there and waited it out and prayed to my creator. that was it. i thought it was you know, that was my end. >> april 12, 1999. a fire breaks out at a construction site in atlanta, georgia. at first, the blaze does not appear to be a threat to the crane operator, so he makes a painful decision to stay put,

220 feet above the ground. >> the smoke started smothering, coming out of the top of the bidding. and i sit there because i thought maybe i'd be able to help the guys, assist them to find out where that smoke was coming from. >> sims communicates what he can see to his supervisor down below, but the fire quickly goes from bad to worse. >> this is probably one of the largest fires atlanta had seen in 25 years. it started generating its own wind, which is getting close to firestorm conditions. >> con strux crews on the ground have safely evacuated the building, but ivers can only look down from above. >> most of that crane is built with steps how you get up and down every day. the crane was sitting down close to the building. and there was no way i could get down that kraep and get past those steps. >>en a time is not on his side.

the fire advances closer and closer to the crane. and the question becomes how much longer can it take the punishing heat. >> it had direct flame con tract between the steel at the bottom of the crane and it weakens the steel. and if it weakens the steel enough it's going to bring that crane over. >> sims decides to ride the fire out in the cab of the crane. but the temperatures turn into an oven. >> i realized the heat was getting to me. i walked back out on the deck. the cab of the crane where i was sitting it blew up. it busted into flames. >> sims paces along the crane, looking for any escape from the flames. he takes refinal on the counter wait. >> i realize that that was the only thing that was going to absorb that heat, and i just sit back there on them.

i didn't feel any heat. >> trapped on the edge, 220 feet above the ground, all he can do is wait. >> after i lost contact with everybody on the ground, i didn't know whether i was going to get down or not. i thought that was my end. i just sit there and prayed. it's nice to have time to ask god forgiveness, you know before you go ask him to forgive you for anything that you have done to anybody else. >> but first responders aren't about to give up. helicopters attempt to approach the top of the crane. >> we're going to make a couple passes just to see what we can do with it. >> the heat and 40 mile an hour winds prove to be difficult to overcome. >> it's hot. we didn't even get that chose to it. >> firefighters brainstorm ways to reach sims but many ideas are impractical under these conditions. >> we batted around ideas of

trying to throw a line to him or shoot a line to him. there was an idea of somebody crawling up the inside of one of the smokestacks that was next to the crane. who's going to be able to jump that far. >> rescue workers decide another airborne attempt is the only way to reach the top of the crane. the plan calls for firefighter matt moseley to dangle 80 feet beneath the helicopter through the heat and smoke, then be lowered onto the burning hot crane and attach himself to simms. >> i can remember seconds after i was lowered this calm came over you. you were done hearing all the opinions and ideas it was time to go to work. >> moseley's calm doesn't last for long. the pilot fights to keep the helicopter steady against the powerful winds and updrafts from the fire, but it's moseley who must endure and protect himself from the extreme heat. >> i was getting pretty nervous

because it was getting very hospital my ears were starting to burn. i tried to tuck my head down into miochol ar because it was getting a lot hotter than i expected. >> fighting the winds, the chopper pilot maneuvers moseley directly onto the arm of the crane and no one has any idea how close the 220 foot crane is to the point of collapse. >> i made my way over to him and i could hear pops. and that pop was the metal deck the steel popping from the heat, because the control cabin already burned up. so we didn't want to dillydally, tried a little humor with him. told him his boss said it was okay to knock off early. he didn't pay attention to what i had to say. >> i introduced myself and he told me what to do with the sling he had. i think it was a hitch something like that. we had to loop it up. and that as it. >> moseley knows every second counts and races to he go the

harness on sims. he gives the thumbs up. after nearly two hours on top of the crane simms is flown to safety. >> probably the biggest relief for the whole rescue was when the system actually tensed up and we able to get lifted off the crane and everything was hooked up right. >> it was a good feeling, a good feeling knowing you was going to safety. it was a good feeling. >> we enjoyed the ride on the way down. and i remember that they try to teach you to calm people. he was the calmest person up there. >> sims and mosley are brought down in a nearby field where medical teams immediately rush to assist them. >> it was a good feeling to hit the ground. i would have kissed the ground but i didn't have time. they grabbed me up and threw me on the stretcher and hauled me off to the hospital. >> the flames are extinguished soon after simms' res skew and the crane remained standing in spite of the intense flames.

>> the guys told us it was three or feet out of spec. so it was starting to lean. >> their moment in the spotlight has only just begun. the dramatic rescue has been broadcast over the country and they've been turned into national celebrities. >> when we got on the ground, it got tougher. that's when the media came up. and the mayor comes up and hands you the phone and says vice president gore is on the phone. nothing like the vice president of the united states to call you to add to your nervousness. >> the media celebrates a happy ending to an incredible rescue and simms is changed forever. >> with that day, you know everybody just stepped in and did they part. and everything went, like i say flawless. from that day on i have a different perspective towards

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a teenager is left hanging on for dear life when he try does save his dog from a potentially deadly fall. >> he was just so physically tired that he probably wasn't going to last much longer on that hillside. >> december 29, 2011. ivan and his father are walking ivan's dog lola in california when the canine chases a bottle thrown over the side of the hill. >> the dog went down there, got stuck, wasn't able to come back up, and ivan wanted to go try to get hill. >> but ivan's impulse to rescue his four legged friend takes a frightening turn. the slope becomes too steep and ivan slides uncontrollably down

the side. cliff. news helicopters capture the struggle. he can't climb back up or continue down. >> the cliff he was stuck on was approximately 200 to 250 foot cliff side. and he was approximately 75 to 100 feet do you know inwn in the steeper part of the cliff. >> a team is called in to help save ivan and his dog from a nearly 200 foot fall. helicopters make the first attempt, a rescuer is lowered down a safety line and tries to attach harnesses to both ivan and the dog. >> the reason why we decided or the department decided to go with the helicopter first is i guess that's how our procedure works, our protocol. we figured that would be the easiest way and the safest way to rescue ivan. >> but the wind and noise generated by the chopper causes lola to panic.

and ivan struggles to cover her with his body. >> during interest attempt, the row rotor wash was so great it was blowing debris across ivan and his dog. it made the situation worse. >> it could have been a dangerous operation. so we backed out of that and went to plan b, which was for the members and firefighters to go down and rescue ivan. >> a firefighter is the first to reach ivan. he has been hanging onto the cliff for more than an hour and is close to letting go. >> once i got to ivan he was tired. he was thirsty. i was trying to comfort him, make sure everything was going to be okay. going to be safe. i tried to get his mind off of that scared zone. >> he secures ivan to a harness with no problems and decides to take him straight down the hill. but the firefighters agree, it is safer to take lola another

way. >> the dog wasn't going to leave ivan's side. so the route that they were going to take ivan down the dog would have got hurt trying to follow. so we made the decision to secure the dog first, get the dog out of the equation and keep the dog safe and prevent the dog from hurting itself. once i had the dog in my arms it didn't move. it actually tucked itself even closer. if it could have crawled inside it probably would have. that's how scared the dog was. >> mcguinness takes slow steps across the cliff and hands lola off to a waiting firefighter. he attaches himself to ivan and they begin their descent down the steep slope. but they encounter problems as soon as they begin. the rope line gets snagged. he must tug and pull on the line, which in turn sends debris straight down on them. >> the hard part getting him down, all the loose dirt and roos rock was hitting us. i was telling him keep your head

down because there's a lot of loose dirt and loose rocks. i had to make sure what kind of debris was going to fall on us. >> he also struggles with the loose ground which disintegrates right under his feet. >> that mountain was very very steep, loose dirt, rock. very uncomfortable. so that kind of always is a hin dwrans of trying to do a rescue like this. you think you're placing your foot or hand on something that's stable and secure and that's not the case. >> the two safely reach the bottom of the hill and ivan is reunited with lola and his family. but admits he was worried the outcome could have been much different. >> he told me that if we weren't there, he would have been able to hold off for about 20 more minutes. >> rescues can be a part of a typical day for an l.a. firefighter, but ivan and lola

are two that won't soon be forgotten. >> i haven't really been on a rescue like this before. so it was special to me, to just kind of go to work and do what we need to do. no one was hurt nobody was injured. the victim and dog in this case were both safe. and that's the gratification right there, knowing that we were able to make a difference out there. coming up a group of friends up against a rising tide. >> my entire body, including my neck, was under the water. >> when caught on camera, help is on the way, continues. ttxwlun+og#wvs#q)p0á)uog5u,qcf;ul"h0aboczb÷avzç.%";k0/bv]9@ step! [ mom ] my little girl...she loves to help out on big jobs.tt>ff@el

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roerd says the pilot tried to speed up just before the crash. and the wife of john kerry has been flown to a boston hospital. she was first take ton a nantucket hospital. the cause of kerry's medical condition has not been released. more news later. now back to caught on camera. a kayaking trip becomes a nightmare, forcing four people to fight for their lives against the rises tide. >> we had a really small window to get everyone out of this tunnel or it's going to go from a rescue to a recovery. >> second 2, 2007, dennis riley along with his wife and their friend are sightseeing in massachusetts. >> we decided to take kayaks as the tide was going up coming.

get there at high tide and just kind of eat, leisurely, go back out with the tide. >> claudia puts down her paddle and starts taking pictures. but as she looks through her lens, she doesn't realize her kayak is slowly drifting toward a tunnel. >> i was slammed up against the bridge and being sucked underneath. >> we made a beeline for her as fast as we could. but it was immediately obvious that we were in a bad swachlgts our kayak started to tip and i'm all of a sudden out of the kayak in the water. >> bystanders witnessed the accident and called 911 and dennis tries to hold onto his wife and claudia. a local resident captures the terrifying ordeal on camera.

claudia is already pulled out of the tunnel, but dennis is still inside, trying to reach his wife. >> and then like from heaven the ladder came down, right in front of me. and i just reached out and i thought, well i better get out of here and let the firefighters do their job. so i pulled, grabbed onto the ladder and i pulled myself through the opening. >> the deputy fire chief is waiting on the ladder and helps lift dennis up to the rescue team on the bridge. >> when i finely gol got ahold of hick, thank god he want a giant guy and i could lift him onto the ladder and get him out safe. >> i got him. under the arm. >> i was pretty exhausted. i knew that there wasn't much more that i could do, but i was also, at that point, had been prepared to, somebody threw me a

rope i would have gone back and tied it onto selena. >> dennis and claudia are safe. suelena is still trapped inside the tunnel. but she is not alone. jake king is the first firefighter to arrive at the bridge after the 911, before the camera starts to record. he hears the desperate calls for help and decides he can't wait for more firefighters to come. >> so i jumped in the water and i was sucked into the culvert but i did get inside. suelena relies on her yoga training to remain calm but realizes that she may not survive. >> just a cun conscious prayer that if you have to take me, i'll go. so i was kind of really ready

when about that time this you know, person comes up from the water. and he grabs ahold of me. and he says i'm firefighter jake. 40e8d hold on tight or we're both going to die. it was like he woke me up from a revery where i was starting to kind of fade. and he, he said okay. this is extremely dangerous but, you know we're going to find a way out. >> jake communicates with chris rousseau while inside the tunnel and they come up with a plan to pull them out against the raging torrent. >> the water was coming in very fast. at that point, we, the water inside the culvert was swirling around like a whirlpool, and you

could see the tide rising. and you know, we had very very little space. i'm going to say anywhere from 8 to 12 inches to the top of the culvert. >> jay and suelena wrap themselves in the ropes and prepare to escape from the dark confines of the tunnel. but fear overwhelms suelena p achlta when she learns she has to make her way to the opening alone. >> he says i can't go with you. they can't pull both of us out >> we have a victim who's not responding verbally. she was afraid she was going to die. and she was in a very dark

place. >> chris is screaming. stop listening to him. listen to me. and it's like i couldn't change my allegiance. i was so bonded to jay who's been holding onto me under the water. >> suelena overcomes her fear and lets go of jay. rousseau gets help from a man on a small boat to pull suelena out. her head is barely above the rushing water gasping for air with every ounce of strength she can find. >> i'm exhausted. my head's going under the water. i'm still thinking i'm going to drown. and chris, chris is on the ladder and it was like he was like just pouring his life force

into me, and i could like raise my arm and he could grab hold of my arm. >> after 45 terrifying minutes, suelena is pulled to safety but jay king is still trapped in the tunnel. >> i knew i was the rescuer rescuers are always last. but like anything. i just wanted to get out of there. >> we're getting to the end of this here. we're getting close. we're running out of time. and the last thing i'm going to do after being successful three other times is leave a fire fiert trapped in a culvert at the end of the day. >> he realizes the boat can use extra strength to pull jay out of the tunnel. precious seconds tick away as they maneuver the boat into position.

the boat pulls jay to the opening of the tunnel but he still must squeeze past the ladder blocking the exit. he makes his way around as the pressure from the river threatens to push him back in. with one final burst of speed the boat moves forward and jay king escapes. [ applause ] >> you know, it was a deep breath. there's a sigh of relief there. my first thought was, am i 100% sure we have everyone? we verified with everyone on scene. >> dennis, claudia and suelena suffer minor physical injuries but the psychological trauma is harder to leave behind. >> i mean, i'm still processing

it. i'll be processing it for you know, the rest of my life. >> the bridge has been rebuilt and the culvert opening closed up signs warning kayakers from getting too close. but if they do firefighters and first responders will be there. >> i think it could take two or three minutes and this would be a whole different event. they would have drowned if we didn't take the actions we did. >> public service i used to think of as politicians. it really changed my view of how necessary these jobs are and how the people that do them are amazing. i mean jay jumped in there not knowing whether he would survive. and that's a different kind of job. coming up. an afternoon of terror on the side of an apartment building. >> we had collapsed scaffolding

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a construction platform breaks apart leaving two men clinging to the side of a building. >> it was over 130 feet. it definitely would have been a fatal fall. >> march 2011, two workers must face their worst fears when a scaffold collapses outside an apartment building in new york. a news helicopter captures the scene. the chief assesses the situation. >> one guy's hanging onto the scaffolding, standing on top of it. and the second victim is below

him beneath the scaffolding probably about another ten feet or so. >> we didn't know the extent of their injuries at that point. so the plan was made to have some of our members proceed to the floor nearby where they were hanging from the scaffolding to remove windows and to establish communication with them, to assess their situation. >> the two men indicate that they aren't hurt and their safety harnesses keep them from plunging to the ground. no one knows how long the scaffold or the workers can hang on. >> when they sit in the harnesses for a long time it decreases the blood flow to the lower extremities which creates a lot of physical logical problems. their legs were starting to get numb. it was cold out. >> firefighters first attempt to use their truck ladder to bring the two men down, but it quickly becomes clear they'll have to move on to plan b. >> our longest ladders are 100 feet long.

and these men being about 130 feet above the ground were very much out of the reach of our ladders. our second option would be to pull them in to a nearby window, a window above possibly below or to the side. >> but plan b has its own problems. >> when you're looking at a building that way on tv, it looks like everything's flat. doesn't give you the dimensions but those windows were actually ten feet back and ten feet offset. you never want to swing them because your rope could actually cut. >> the ladders are too short. the windows too distant. firefighters are left with one final option. the roof. >> we had a ra pelling rack up top that they were using. it's basically a bunch of bars that we weave a rope through. >> once that was all done, which took about 30 minutes, we had

placed a firefighter into a harness. and we lowered him off the side of the building. >> he carefully descends and reaches the two men clinging to the platform. he determines the woerk on the top end can hang on a little longer, but the other one gives him cause for concern. >> the first victim was hanging on to the scaffolding. he seemed okay. he wasn't like super panicked yet. the guy below him seemed more in a panicked state. i think one of the reasons was that his harness was right around his legs where it should have been but his whole weight was suspended by that harness, which was starting to cut off the blood flow. >> he approaches the lower victim and secures him to the rope lines. >> with the main line attachment what i did was attach the end knot to myself and attach him to an accessory cord. so his weight is never really on

me it's just on my system. so in this situation if something failed i would have been fine and he would have been fine. >> he brings the first man safely to the ground. typically another firefighter would rescue the second victim, but the late afternoon dusk is turning to night and they decide his experience outweighs other considerations. >> it was first getting dark and he had a really good look at the entanglement problems that were there. so after consulting with mike when he reached the ground we determined it really would be ideal for him to go back a second time. >> floodlights illuminate the building as he again rappels down the bidding. both workers were taken to the hospital for observation. >> they were a little high

hypothermic. but they were released from the hospital and were fine. >> an investigation later determines the scaffolding collapsed due to a failure in the braking system. mandatory safety lines helped save the workers from a 130 foot fall. and there's no question the steady skills of mike insured this accident didn't become a tragedy. >> definitely remember this. this is pretty much the highlight of my career so far. and it's not just me. we had guys up there. we had close to 50 guys. and they're helping save a life, you know. and it's a great feeling when you can affect people's lives. coming up, a school of dolphins is saved from a certain death. when caught on camera, help is on the way, continues. [ slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium-rich tums starts working so fast you'll forget you had heartburn. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums ♪ [ male

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transforms a group of office workers into heroes. >> we ran up to the bike. the flames were really intense. it felt like i was in the fire. >> june 22 2011. it's just another day outside philadelphia's municipal transportation offices, until a car starts to make an illegal u turn on a busy street. a security camera captures the driver waiting for traffic to clear as walter ra var ra rides his motorcycle just a few hundred feet away. >> i didn't see her till the last minute, so there was nothing i could do. >> sparks fly as the hell mut metless man drops to the ground and slides into the back of the car. the motorcycle goes up into flames as the car pulls over. >> rivera lays there

unconscious. >> there was a crowd of people outside. you can understand people were scared it was going to explode. >> a car approaches the flaming motorcycle and turns away. >> but john hears the accident from inside his office and races out to help. he and another man pull rivera away from the motorcycle. >> when we got him to the middle of the street he was on fire on his legs. >> he takes off his shirt and stamps out his burning legs as co-workers arrive to help. >> john's still trying to put him out with his shirt. and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. and that's when i handed him the fire extinguisher. >> i quick, grabbed it out of his hands, pulled the pin and

started extinguishing the fire on walter. when i saw it was out on him i went over and tried to put the fire out on the motorcycle. that's what i tried to do. >> rivera regains consciousness as boon and selleggi pull him even further from the wreck. >> i kept trying to get up, i broke my right femur bone, it was shattered. so it was no way me getting up, but i guess i was in shock. so i kept trying and kept trying. they had to literally hold me down. >> minutes later fire and rescue crews arrive to extinguish the motorcycle and take rivera to the hospital. he spends three months recuperating there from extensive burns and multiple broken bones. >> but it turned out a lot better than i was expecting, even though i thought it was, i thought i wasn't going to walk.

that's how bad it was. >> rivera is disappointed the driver only receives a ticket for the illegal turn, but he is grateful for his remarkable recovery and the office workers who left their desks to come to his aid. >> if it wasn't for them i wouldn't be here, you know. my kids would be fatherless. and they saved a lot of lives. not only mine. they saved a lot of lives. so i thank them so much. >> someone said you know weren't you worried about your life? i couldn't go to sleep that night if i had let that guy burn. that would have been terrible. it would have been hard to live with. another group of bystanders spring into action when they find beached dolphins struggling for survival. march 5, 2012. a tourist films a school of dolphins swimming off the shore

near rio de janeiro, brazil. the dolphins swim closer and closer and they're not turning back. they flail up onto the beach. tourists slowly approach the dolphins, unsure what to do. a few walk into the surf and attempt to roll the dolphins back into deeper water. then even more people rush out to help. one man grabs a tail and drags the dolphin back out into the ocean. soon others follow. more than a dozen people start to grab dolphins by their tails. it's unclear why species like dolphins and whales beach themselves. some scientists believe a leader of the group may unintentionally guide the others into shallow waters. other theories site human interference such as sonar that

confuse the dolphins' internal systems. each year thousands of dolphins are found on shores worldwide. and most of them don't survive. but this group is lucky to have some human friends at the right place and right time, giving them a second chance at life in the open seas. on the streets of detroit and throughout michigan hard times are leading to hard choices for a growing number of young women caught up in the underground sex trade. >> domestic trafficking in the

state of michigan is a huge problem. we've seen cases involving 12 and 13 year olds in small towns. we've seen cases involving young girls in the big cities here. they are modern day slaves on the streets all around us. >> out of work and out of options, more and more are turning to the oldest profession in a desperate bid to make ends meet. >> and why are