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Saturday, July 28, 2012  Firefighters say a woman has died after her Aiken home caught fire and rescuers couldn't save her because there were so many of her belongings inside.

Friday, July 27, 2012  Firefighters say a woman has died after her Aiken home caught fire and rescuers couldn't save her because there were so many of her belongings inside.

Thursday, July 05, 2012  South Carolina authorities say a 33-year-old Georgia woman has drowned in Lake Hartwell.

Monday, October 11, 2010  Andre Sougarett, the rescue leader, said the empty capsule descended 2,000 feet (610 meters), just 40 feet (12 meters) short of the shaft system where the miners have been trapped since an Aug. 5 collapse.

Saturday, October 09, 2010  The "Plan B" drill won a three-way race against two other drills to carve a hole wide enough for an escape capsule to pull the miners out one by one.

Monday, August 30, 2010  An enormous drill began preliminary work Monday on carving a half-mile chimney through solid rock to free the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine, their ordeal now having equaled the longest known survival in an underground disaster.

Wednesday, April 07, 2010  A Massey Energy executive says federal officials are testing air drawn from a hole drilled into a West Virginia mine where rescuers are trying to reach four missing miners.

Friday, March 12, 2010  Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC rescuers, recovery workers who sued over 9/11 illnesses

Sunday, February 28, 2010  Rescuers work to save trapped victims from Chile's mammoth earthquake; hundreds dead

Monday, May 11, 2009