Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

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DEPUTY’S SACRIFICE HONORED
Amy Gross of Douglas, Wyo., received her late husband’s Carnegie Medal from Converse County, Wyo., Sheriff Clinton B. Becker in December. Gross’s husband, Bryan Phillip Gross, was a deputy in Becker’s department when he died attempting to help save a 14-year-old girl from drowning in the North Platte River at Douglas on July 28, 2011. Minutes away ...
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Surfer changes mind, enters sea to save teenager
School teacher Richard Henry Becker, 31, of Mendocino, Calif., saved Zayre S. Johnson, 17, from drowning in the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino Bay on Jan. 18, 2011. Zayre entered the bay to surf, but when his board broke in the rough seas he abandoned it. Rather than attempt to return to shore against a strong current, he turned toward a cove at the fa ...
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EAGLE SCOUT PUTS LIFEGUARD CERTIFICATION TO GOOD USE
High school student Connor Farland Stotts, 17, of Oceanside, Calif., saved Christian E. Osuna, 18, and Karen T. Ainuu, 16, from drowning in the Pacific Ocean at Oceanside on July 31, 2011. While swimming, Osuna, Karen, and others in their party were carried farther from the beach by a rip current. They struggled to return but made little progress ...
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ice hero honored
Colorado State Patrol Trooper Daniel Harrison Haley of Greeley may have been off duty when he saved a boy from drowning, but the presentation of his Carnegie Medal on Aug. 14 in recognition of that act was very much an official event. The medal was given to him by Hero Fund board member Linda T. Hills, left, at a ceremony at the patrol’s training ...
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Groom attempts rescue, victim killed
Summer N. White, 18, was returning home from a horse show when she and her party came across a woman lying on the highway beside her car following an accident on the Kansas Turnpike in Mulvane. It was at night, in mid-June of 2012. White, a groom from Edmond, Okla., left the vehicle in which she was a passenger and went to the badly injured and s ...
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