Catherine Breed, 33, swam about 900 miles down the whole California coast in 111 days, from the Oregon border to the Mexico border. She fought cold water, sharks, a current running the wrong way and polluted water near the border, then swam ashore at Coronado to cheers.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts Fire Chief Dante Suarez was having lunch with his wife in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, when a kitchen fire broke out next door. With no sprinklers and no gear, he borrowed extinguishers from the neighbors and kept the fire from spreading.
A radio call about a medical emergency sent the principal and the bookkeeper of Millbrook Magnet High School in Raleigh running to a bathroom. Minutes later, the school’s security officer had a healthy baby girl, and the school had its tiniest Wildcat.
Dale, 86, of Mineral Wells, Texas, has spent nearly forty years welding a 62-foot steel boat in his front yard, dreaming of sailing her to Alaska. Three English visitors shared his story, and strangers around the world are now helping him get her on the water.
Principal Bobby Davis sprinted to the cafeteria of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School to stop what he thought was a fight. It was a birthday prank, and the video drew millions of views. The senior who planned it says Davis changed his life.
Four-year-old Remi Floro of Port Clinton, Ohio, had to sell his tickets to Twenty One Pilots’ Ohio Stadium show when his leukemia relapsed and his bone marrow transplant was scheduled. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph visited his hospital room instead, and Dun wore Remi’s name on stage.
At a packed pep rally at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, senior Keny Cedanio Ramirez was named homecoming king. When he saw his friend and fellow nominee Axton Kuhla, who has Down syndrome, start to cry, he placed his crown and sash on Axton’s head. The video went viral.
Eva and Nick Broderick were two miles from their car in Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine State Forest when lightning hit the tree beside them. Eva, struck too, revived Nick twice during the 50 minutes it took rescuers to find them. After he left the hospital, he proposed.
D’Amber Davis chatted with cashier Katelyn Sparks almost every day at a Central Georgia gas station. When she learned Katelyn was 33 weeks pregnant and couldn’t care for the baby, she asked a life-changing question. Now she is adopting baby Nolan, and the two women call each other sisters.
Months ago, 16-year-old Taylor Fisher and her best friend left flowers and kind notes on cars at Bismarck’s hospitals and filmed it for TikTok. After Taylor died in an October crash, her family found the video and did it again in her memory.