You're warned: The following clip is pretty cute, what with 8-year-old Reese Ronceray revealing how he saved 5-year-old Andrew Gentile from drowning in a manmade lake in NJ, with an assist from SpongeBob Squarepants. Reese, who has known how to swim for two years, told MyFoxNY instinct took over, "I don't know how to explain it. I just kinda knew how to react... I swam over like they did with 'Larry the Lobster' and 'Sponge Bob.' I put him in one of my triangles, got him, we got back in the water and we swam to shore." Andrew helpfully added, "I was the drowner guy. Reece was 'Larry Lobster.'" more ›

After a Good Samaritan helped save a woman who fell into the L train tracks at Union Square on Monday night, practically everyone is eager to know who mystery man is! Wesley Autrey, whose subway heroics of 2007 still amaze us (Autrey crawled over a man have a seizure in the tracks and the 1 train went over their heads!), tells the Daily News, "I would just want him to come forward so the city could recognize him - and so I could meet him. You don't find too many people who are willing to save lives." more ›

Not only did the woman who fainted into the Union Square L tracks on Monday night survive with an Eighth Avenue-bound L train passing over her, a mysterious Good Samaritan saved her! According to the Daily News, a man jumped into the tracks and attempted to lift Jessica Oshita onto the platform: "But before he could pull off the rescue, he heard the rumbling of the oncoming Manhattan-bound train and was forced to make a split-second switch to Plan B.... As the train approached, the hero placed Oshita's body in the well between the rails and then quickly hoisted himself onto the platform, the sources said." more ›

Yesterday, a Sheepshead Bay fisherman was reunited with the family he saved from a sinking car. On October 10, after hearing the screams of two teen girls, Gorman jumped into the bay's cold waters to rescue their mother Alla Yelizarov, who couldn't get out of her seat belt. At the meeting, Yelizarov managed to joke, "I was just trying to park." more ›

Yesterday the Farm Sanctuary aided in the rescue of a chicken that would have otherwise been part of the sacrificial slaughter during the Jewish ritual of kaparot. They tell us the chicken was saved in Crown Heights, and later named Chesed, meaning mercy or loving-kindness in Hebrew. He joined the over 200 other NYC chickens the organization has rescued from this ritual over the past three years. more ›

Hooray for Georgette Clemons, a literally newlywed bride and hero. The Connecticut Post reports that Clemons was being driven to her wedding reception with groom Charles Clemons when she spotted a North End home on fire yesterday afternoon in Bridgeport, CT. She yelled at the car's driver to stop and headed to the house—"charging through the thick curtain of smoke in a wedding dress." The car's driver said, "I don't know what she was thinking, she had just got married." Clemons yelled for the home's occupants to get out and eventually headed in, "The woman was yelling about her animals and didn't want to get out so I had to pull her out." The home's residents, including humans, two dogs and two ferrets, made it out and Clemons also warned neighbors. Though her dress is blackened from the smoke and her "shoes got messed up," Clemons told the CP, "What are you going to do? At least the people are OK." more ›