In July 2016, 27-year-old Chris Rotella and a friend were working on a 34-foot cabin cruiser in a canal in Fort Lauderdale, when the boat suddenly exploded.

In August 2015, the Mundy house was rocked by a piercing sound at 5:50 a.m. Darnal Mundy, then age three, had climbed onto a chair, reached into a drawer in search of an iPad and instead found a gun.

As Maty Hallcroft crossed the street toward the garage where her car was parked – crossing in the marked and signaled walkway – a driver plowed into her.

In January 2013, Evelin Matamoros was walking out of a restaurant in Miami when she was approached by an armed robber who demanded her purse.

“Ryder Trauma Center has been around for many years. As part of our job in law enforcement, we have been in Ryder for traumatic cases, and I’ve seen miracles happen,” said Diaz.

In August 2015, firefighter Tennyson “Mackie” McFarlane was responding to a routine house fire in Kingston, Jamaica when a propane tank exploded inside the structure.

When Robert Billue left work on a Friday afternoon in April 2015, he was looking forward to the start of the weekend with his family.

In September 2013, Danielle Press suffered life-threatening injuries in a boating accident off the coast of Key Biscayne – the very place where her father is police chief.

Just days before Christmas in 2012, 15-year-old Aaron Willis was riding bike in Wynwood when a gunman in a car drove by and shot him in the back.