Search and Rescue
Defendant Calvin Weaver asserted the Terry frisk began not when the officer touched him, but at the moment the officer ordered him to get out of the car
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The family’s home is surrounded by woods, ponds and railroad tracks
Five hours after the initial call, the man started to run along the railing and attempted to jump over the bridge’s edge
One officer, who had previously served as a volunteer firefighter, said his fire training took over during the call
“He’s on fire,” an officer says as he tries to yank on the door
The duo had just returned to their station from training when winds started to violently pick up
“They went out in the eye of the worst part of the storm to save people, putting their own safety aside,” said Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia
“Thank God for neighbors who were inquisitive and said: ‘That screaming is not right,’” Sheriff Grady Judd said
Upton police, fire and EMS members and mutual aid partners carried the man out of a wooded area and transported him to a hospital
The officer took the girl in his arms and performed back thrusts to clear her airway, eventually removing the obstruction
The trooper delivered the cat to the Toledo Humane Society, where the cat was given the name “Trooper” and eventually adopted
Bodycam footage shows police locating the vehicle and providing the lethargic girl with a cold compress and water to help cool her down
The officer hurriedly threw the leash over a fence into the canal and pulled the man out of the water
A GoFundMe page for the family has raised nearly $220K after the officer and her daughter died from their injuries
The immediate CPR response from bystanders was vital to the man’s survival, the deputy said
Officer Brandon Griffith founded “Griffith Blue Heart” to help police have the capability to administer lifesaving techniques before firefighters or EMTs arrive
The man had traveled away from his disabled UTV and was clinging to life when the troopers located him by following footprints in the snow
“CHP investigators worked throughout the night interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence from the scene,” police said
The women encountered the suspect after giving her a ride, not realizing until the person began acting erratically that something was amiss
The individuals were on a tour bus heading to Washington, D.C., when the vehicle diverged from the road and got wedged into a snow bank
With driving so difficult, deputies turned to snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles for their rescues
After the driver of a stolen car jumped from the moving vehicle, the car struck the cyclist and wedged him underneath
The woman was pushing the 3-year-old in a stroller when a driver backed out of a parking spot and ran them over
Officers were on scene of a fatal crash when a vehicle didn’t notice the closed road; the driver narrowly missed striking the officers and rolled down an embankment into frigid waters
Officer Kwesi Johnson jumped into the dark water and busted out the driver’s side window to rescue the woman
About three hours later, the sheriff’s office determined the rescue was complete
The rescue happened more than seven hours after the man “split from another hunter he had been with” and vanished into the swamp
When the St. Louis County firefighter, driver and truck went underwater, Officers Don Shultz and Victoria Sarver got in the water to help with the rescue
A suspect challenged the validity of the underlying arrest warrants, but the court held the officers had a good faith basis to rely on the information about the warrants
After pulling the man from the water, the deputy left that scene to respond to a rollover, where he put out a small fire in one of the vehicles
While the officers were removing the driver, they saw multiple firearms and ammunition inside the fully engulfed vehicle
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