When Cross Lake, Minnesota residents Paul Gavic and his sons saw a powerboat on fire near their Flyboard rental business, they thought immediately knew their water-jet powered recreational apparatus was better suited to firefighting than having fun on the lake. Gavic rode out to the flaming boat, helped the boaters get away to safety, then doused the raging fire with the water jets from the Flyboard in truly amazing style.

Nature show cameraman finds a deadly surprise guest hiding out in his bathroom
While on location in Indonesia, filming deadly reptiles in the wild for the BBC’s second entry into its Planet Earth series, cameraman Mark MacEwen discovered one of the beasts he had just captured on video had holed itself up in his bathroom. Not wanting to risk his own injury or worse at the jaws of...