Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire A toddler vanished after she jumped into a puddle and disappeared down a rain-filled open manhole hidden underneath while walking home from the nursery with her gran. Some 200 rescuers, including divers who regularly plunged into the sewers in search of the…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This footage shows firefighters racing against time to dig up a construction worker who has been buried under several feet of gravel. The unnamed worker from the county of Yuechi in China’s south-western province of Sichuan had been inspecting a gravel crusher conveyor…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This viral video with over a million views in just 12 hours shows a cute little girl crying out for help before a fireman frees her foot trapped in a toilet. The four-year-old from the city of Zhaoqing in South China’s Guangdong Province…
Story By: Lee Bullen, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This is the moment a 5-month-old baby in an orange wash basin is rescued from a building during flash floods. According to local media, numerous coastal cities in the south-eastern Chinese province of Guangdong were seriously affected by over 12 hours of heavy…
Story By: Koen Berghuis, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN Video Credit: CEN/Berufstierrettung Rhein Neckar These pics show a portly hedgehog stuck in a metal gate being rescued by firefighters who had to cut the chubby creature out with an angle grinder. The fire brigade of Graz, a city in the Austrian state of Styria, was alerted by…
