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Explore these inspiring stories about police and other first responders who go above and beyond in the performance of their duties. For more, watch "New Day" and "CNN Newsroom," Fridays on CNN.

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From a mass shooting to a major wildfire, two California firefighters recount a harrowing 24 hours

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12-year-old Michael Pena plays in a Little League that honors fallen NYPD officers

There's a really sweet reason why the names on these kids' jerseys are not theirs

Fast-acting police save teen's life after heart attack

Atlanta officer mending gap between community and police

'Grand slam' of kidney donations saves 2 lives, including a baseball legend

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Tattoo parlor rallies around girl fighting cancer

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Baltimore police officer raps to combat crime

Cop rescues pillar of the community

Heartwarming surprise for bullied child

Brave SWAT officers run toward danger

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Police chief writes powerful poem

A daring rescue from a burning car

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Human chain of cops rescues man from icy lake

Montecito Fire Department supervisor Maeve Juarez in front of the devastation left behind by the January 9, 2018 mudslide.

Her heroic efforts saved dozens of lives.

(FILE) Joaquin Guzman Loera, Known as "El Chapo" is pictured on July 10, 1993 at La Palma prison in Almoloya of Juarez, Mexico after being apprehended by the authorities. Mexico lives whipped by a war among drug cartels that dispute their place locally and the trafficking to the United States with unusual ferocity and sophisticated arms on June 11, 2008. Executed, beheaded, tied and tortured bodies with messages against rival bands, or threatened police and street announcements are part of the geography of violence in several states of Mexico. In the course of the year, there were at least 1,378 deaths, 47% more than in the same period in 2007. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

What it was like to capture the notorious 'El Chapo'

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How rescuers found Casey Hathaway

A disturbing surge in on-duty deaths

These firefighters helped deliver a baby at home - then shoveled snow from the new parents' driveway

Firefighters help snowbound mom

Police help huge seal return to the ocean

Ebony Rhodes, left, and her four children were living in her car until Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Jeff Glazier came to the rescue.

Helping America's mobile homeless

Giving kids a fighting chance

First responders say school was eerily silent

First lady Melania Trump talks with Albuquerque Police Officer Ryan Holets and this wife before the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump: Cop shows America's goodness

Together, married cops beat deadly odds

Joan Grealis, left, and Officer Anna Cuthbertson were strangers until Grealis' need for a kidney brought them together.

Police officer donates kidney to save a stranger

Albuquerque Police Officer Ryan Holets has seen come into contact with hundreds of heroin addicts on the streets. But one encounter back in September behind a gas station has changed his and his family's lives forever.

Cop adopts homeless addict's newborn

Ed Lavandera travels back to Albuquerque to update the story of a police officer who adopted the baby of a homeless heroin addict.

After cop adopts addicted baby, mom struggles

Drew Hoffman drove past a small plane that crashed on the 405 near John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, on Friday.

'He went into a burning plane to save us'

Beyond the Call -------------- Martin Savidge reports on Atlanta police officers who risked their lives to save two people trapped in a fiery wreck on September 20, 2017.

Cops rescue men from car fire

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This police artist honors fallen heroes

Inside the world of a hostage negotiator

'A complete fear zone'

Haley and Travis Haldeman. Clark County Fire Engineer Travis Haldeman and his wife Haley were enjoying the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival when the shooting began. As gunfire continued to erupt across the venue, Travis pulled several people into the medical tent and helped get an 18 year old girl who was shot in the back to the hospital.

Vegas concert-goers become lifesavers

Injured Texas cop helped Las Vegas victims

Beyond the Call: Sheriff's deputy sheds uniform to save lives Ohio has been particularly hard hit by the opioid crisis, and sheriff deputies in one county have come up with an innovative idea: they've shed their uniforms and their patrol cars to help addicts. Twenty officers at the Lucas County Drug Abuse Response Team visit emergency rooms to greet addicts as they come out of their overdose. Addicts are notoriously resistant to help, but the DART team has found they're much more receptive when the person they see bedside is in plain clothes and comes across as more of a buddy than an authority figure. The officers also keep up with the addicts as they try to build a new life, and when they visit them at home, it's in a regular car, not a cop car. Over the past three years, they've responded to at least 2,300 people who've overdosed, and nearly 80% have gone to detox. We accompany DART team member Charles Johnson as he rushes to ER's in the Toledo area, and as he visits recovering addicts who are trying to rebuild their lives.

He ditched his uniform to save lives

Cop gives kidney to boy she never met

The Whittier Fire burns through the night on July 9, 2017 near Santa Barbara, California. The Whittier Fire and the Alamo Fire together have blackened more than 30,000 acres of chaparral-covered hills in Ventura County. Statewide, about 5,000 firefighters are fighting 14 large wildfires.

Trapped campers saved from massive fire

This moment changed two people forever

A heartbreaking memorial

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. Capitol Hill special agent David Bailey (L), who was wounded in yesterday's shooting, throws out the first pitch before the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on June 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. Bailey and special agent Crystal Griner were assigned to U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and returned fire during the attack. Scalise is in critical condition following a shooting yesterday during a Republican congressional baseball team practice. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Wounded Capitol Police officer throws first pitch

How crime turned to compassion

Instincts save 3-year-old from drowning

Cops tell how they caught the 'Facebook killer'