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Good News: First Responders Deliver Premature Twins
A look at some of the inspiring headlines from around the region this week.
Dispatcher, Fire Department Help Deliver Premature Twins
A Suffolk County Emergency Medical Dispatcher helped guide a Stony Brook mother through the premature birth of twin boys on Tuesday, according to a press release from the office of County Executive Steve Bellone.
Emergency Services Dispatcher Christine Springer, of St. James, took the 911 call at 1:42 p.m. on Tuesday from the 48-year-old woman, who was in her 27th week of pregnancy. When the woman, whose name was not released, said that she could feel the baby arriving, Springer immediately dispatched a Stony Brook Fire Department crew to assist her, relayed information to other dispatchers in touch with the crew that the woman was having twins, and then guided the woman through the baby's birth at 1:45 p.m.
Heroes Save Woman From Burning Vehicle in Smithtown
Alyssa Marie Fox is alive today thanks to Matthew Monahan and Joe Moscato. Monahan, a Commack volunteer firefighter, and Moscato, an engineer for the Long Island Rail Road, pulled Fox, 20, from a fiery crash in Smithtown early Saturday morning.
Aron Coraor made history Tuesday night when the Huntington senior won sixth place honors in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, the premier high school science and math competition in the world.
John Anthony Clarke, 17, of Syosset, is one of 40 seniors nationwide recognized as finalists in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search. Clarke attends Regis High School in Manhattan. Clarke took ninth place and received a $20,000 award for his research on X-ray emissions from the planet Jupiter, a gas giant that harnesses a powerful magnetic field.
Preeti Kakani and Kaitlyn Shin, seniors at Jericho High School, are two of only 40 students from across the United States who were named finalists in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search.
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Kakani is recognized for her project, "Differential Gene Expression Prior to Eye Opening in Mouse Superior Colliculus," while Shin is noted for her project, "Photon and Positron Emission from Primordial Black Hole Clusters."
Tobay Beach Holding First Polar Bear PlungeTobay Beach will be “Freezin’ for a Reason” later this month as it plays host to the first ever Town of Oyster Bay Polar Bear Plunge.
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