My brother Gene and I are close in age but we didn’t get along when we were children. He never included me in his fun, especially when I was eight and he was nine. It was during that time that Gene and his friends built a tree house and wouldn’t let me help.
Afterwards, he hung a sign that read, “Girls Not Allowed.” I talked to Mom about his tree house and she ordered Gene to come home. “Gene, did you build a tree house at the end of the field?” she asked. “That’s right,” Gene said proudly and pointed to the distance.
Mom said seriously, “That tree is too close to the railroad tracks. You could fall off a branch right onto the barbed-wire (带刺铁丝网) fence. The fence was put there to keep kids away from the tracks.” “Mom, if you let me keep it, I promise that I’ll make everyone clear out of it when a train goes by.”
Mom said, “Okay, but stay on this side of the fence. No one goes near the tracks, and let Diana play in the tree house.”
That morning, Mom had promised if I picked a basket of wild raspberries (树莓), she would make fresh raspberry sauce for me. I really liked fresh, sweetened raspberry sauce on a bowl of ice cream. So Iran back to the house and grabbed a basket. The wild raspberry bushes near the house were nice enough, so I picked raspberries there for a while.
But these raspberries were small compared with the acre of raspberries in that forbidden territory around the railroad tracks. I dashed to the barbed-wire fence until I found where the wire sagged (向下凹). Carefully, I stepped over the fence and into the area next to the tracks.
There were green bushes with big raspberries. I began to fill my basket. When I heard the faint sound of a train in the distance, my heart began to race. “It’s okay,” I told myself. “Just find the low spot in the fence and climb over it.” But I couldn’t find the low spot.
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I raced back and forth along the fence.
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Using all his strength, Gene pushed me over the fence.
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Nick had a difficult childhood, with neither mom nor dad giving him love because his parents died when he was ten. Now he was 27 years old. He had no friends around. As for his work, delivering newspapers couldn’t support his family. He had a wife, Kara Lewis, but he did not know exactly how to get along with her. His life was in a mess and he couldn’t see his future.
That night, Nick had a quarrel with his wife and he’d stormed out of their apartment, leaving his phone behind so she couldn’t contact him. Then he drove the car and smoked in the parking lot; he liked to go there when he needed to be alone. Looking up at the stars, he sat in silence for 15 minutes or so. Then he decided to head home.
He was on the way back to the apartment just after the midnight when he saw the house on fire. Flames were climbing up the front porch, lapping at the home’s walls. Hurrying out of the vehicle, he immediately regretted not having his phone. “Hey, help, the house is on fire!” he yelled into the night. Nobody responded. He ran around to the back door. To his amazement, it swung open. Without thinking about the danger, Nick dashed into the burning building.
It was a two-story house where Walter family lived with two daughters,18-year-old Kay and 2-year-old Sally. That night the parents were not at home, with their 18-year-old daughter taking care of Sally.
The curtains were melting as Nick ran through the hallway of the burning house, peering into rooms that were in flames and searching to see if anyone was home. Just then, one face emerged from a room at the top of the stairs and peered down at him, her eyes wide. “Your house is on fire. You need to go!” Nick yelled, hurrying her out of the house. After they were out into the fresh air, Nick heard the girl kept screaming, “There’s a baby in there! I couldn’t find her in the bedroom.”
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Without hesitating, Nick ran back inside again.
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Outside, the firefighters had arrived.
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It was a bright May afternoon along the Maryland coast, and Jonathan Bauer, 51, an expert doctor at a hospital, and his 13-year-old daughter, Ava were were driving with the windows down as they headed home on the 1.4-mile-long, two-lane Route 90 bridge, which stretches across the shallow waters of Assa-woman Bay. Suddenly, the calm was disturbed by the squeal of tires.
Not far ahead of them, a black pickup truck was sliding from one lane to the other. To the Bauers’ horror, it ran into a concrete barrier, turned over the SUV directly ahead of them, and came to rest hanging over the railing (栏杆) of the bridge. Bauer hit the brakes in time to avoid the vehicles in his path.
“Ava, are you OK?” he asked after stopping the car. She was shaken, but otherwise unhurt. And then a scream. It came from the pickup, which had come to rest on its right side. The back passenger compartment (车厢) and truck bed hung out past the guardrail, 30 or more feet above the waters of the bay. The driver’s door threw open and a man climbed out. He dropped to the ground, and then ran to the railing. Bauer ran up beside him. The man pointed down, saying something in Spanish. In the water was a car seat. Bobbing (颠簸) next to it was a girl, about two years old, pink dotted dress, brown hair, brown eyes, terrified, floating on her back, kicking and splashing and screaming.
From around the truck, more screaming came from its other passengers who had gotten off the truck and were looking down into the water.
The situation quickly went from bad to frightening when the baby girl rolled over onto her stomach. Bauer waited for the pickup driver to do something, but he didn’t move. Maybe he was in shock. “Ava!” Bauer shouted, bending to remove his shoes. “Stay by the car!”
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He climbed onto the railing and jumped into the water without hesitation.
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Her eyes opened now, focused on him, and he could hear ambulance coming this way. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There is no way they just drove into that water, thought Corion Evans. The 16-year-old was hanging out with his friend in a parking area underneath a Moss Point Mississippi, highway in July when a car with three teenage girls inside drove off a boat ramp(斜坡)and into the Pascagoula River. It came to rest some 20 feet from land and then sank. “The driver of the car”, Evans thought, must have blindly followed wrong directions from her GPS.
It was around 2:30 a.m. by the time Evans and his friend Karon Bradley got to the river’s edge. In the darkness they could hardly make out the girls holding tightly to the roof, the only part of the car still, barely, above water. But they could hear screaming.
Evans took off his shirt and shoes, threw his phone down, and then dived into the water, a river he knew alligators(短吻鳄)called home. He helped the first girl he saw and, keeping her head above water led her ashore.
Just then, a man called out. Police Officer Garry Mercer had arrived. He dived into the river to help another of the girls. But halfway back to shore she panicked and went underwater. pulling Mercer down with her. Evans jumped back into the water and helped them until they could stand. “If he hadn’t been there, who knows?” Mercer told the Washington Post.
There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was drinking water, struggling to stay afloat. And scared.
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Hearing Cora’s screaming, Evans jumped again back into the river.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________“If mum finds out that I’m going to the beach, I’ll be in big trouble.” I said to myself softly in a low voice. I went downstairs slowly and tried to walk quietly out of the house. As I was heading towards the back door, Mum asked “Where are you going?” I answered without hesitation, “I am going to the garden to play.” After I got out of the house, I breathed a sigh of relief(松了口气) and ran toward the bus stop at top speed. Half an hour later, I was at the beach playing volleyball happily with my friends, Jim and Bob. Nearby two young men were racing in the canoes(独木舟). Suddenly, Bob hit the ball too hard and the ball fell into the sea. Just as Bob was going to pick up the ball. A wave came in and carried the ball further and further away from the shore. I wanted to show off my swimming skills so I volunteered to help get the ball. I dived into the water and started swimming towards the ball. After swimming for about ten minutes, I became tired but when I saw the ball was only a few feet away from me, I put in an extra burst of speed. “Oh, no!” Another big wave swept the ball further away from me. Just at that moment, I found my feet got tangled(缠绕) by a string of weed(水草) and I couldn’t swim properly.
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I struggled to keep myself above the water but it was no use.
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