NBC News99%

Connecticut firefighters rescue children from floods 98%

7/23/2026, 4:13:49 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 49.3% saturation with 147 hits. Analysis detected 958 faulty-reasoning hits from 298 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98% and a BS Rank of 98% (409 of 20,491 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.00% of the video peer group.

Bright Giggles Daycare Center's backyard was unrecognizable during Tuesday's storm. 
>> Our tables, our picnic tables were flipped upside down and the water kept rising, moving up. 
>> Director Sandri Blanc called 911 and 39 parents telling them school would be closing early. 
But like much of the city, 
Thompson Street was covered in water. 
That's when the Bridgeport Fire Department arrived and Blanc tells us the chief had a plan. 
>> And he said, "As parents are coming, 
he'll step into the building, request for the children, and carry them outside to their families." 
>> And that they did. Here's a photo of little Josiah enjoying the excitement and getting to know the firefighters. 
>> The firefighters, they were very, um, very kind and they made the children feel safe. 
>> Neighboring business owners say the spectacle was a bright spot on a rainy day. 
>> They, uh, brought all the kids out to the parents instead of having the parents, you know, trudging through the through the the crap. 
>> The crew at the daycare center spent Wednesday cleaning up, good as new to reopen tomorrow. 
Tuesday, Norwalk spent the afternoon making rescues, too. 
>> Everyone's trying to get home, everyone's trying to get to a meeting at their work or to get their kids. 
Um, 
but unfortunately, a few people were trapped in their vehicles, in which the water was about 3/4 of the way up. 
>> Norwalk police tell us the rain and 
flooding happened quickly and they did 
three car rescues, urging drivers, as always, to turn around when there's water in the road. 
>> An additional of 5 minutes of time could have saved, you know, could save your vehicle most importantly could save your 
life. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 5.4%NBC News: 1.9%Confirmation Bias5.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 17.4%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic17.4%This article: 4.7%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic4.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 19.8%NBC News: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias19.8%This article: 25.8%NBC News: 6.2%Framing Effect25.8%This article: 13.1%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion13.1%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 11.1%NBC News: 1.9%Optimism Bias11.1%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 30.2%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias30.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 5.4%NBC News: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error5.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias7.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 19.8%NBC News: 4.3%Halo Effect19.8%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 6.7%NBC News: 1.4%Recency Bias6.7%This article: 2.7%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect2.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 18.8%NBC News: 2.8%Appeal to Authority18.8%This article: 13.8%NBC News: 1.2%False Dilemma13.8%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 11.7%NBC News: 3.1%Hasty Generalization11.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 49.3%NBC News: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion49.3%This article: 5.4%NBC News: 0.7%Begging the Question5.4%This article: 9.4%NBC News: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)9.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 44.0%NBC News: 1.6%Anecdotal44.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 4.3%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

298 words analyzed.

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Norwalk police

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30 attributed words48% of attributed speech100% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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