Friends remembered: James Vernon
James Vernon, 81, of Morton, Illinois died Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Vernon was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017 for saving …
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Friends remembered: Ricky Don Bailey
Ricky Don Bailey, 63, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at his Clinton, Louisiana, home surrounded by family. His death came after a long struggle with dementia. When Bailey was 31 …
Friends remembered: Ronald Larsen
Ronald Larsen, 81, of Elko, Nevada, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. When Larsen was 57, he rescued 3-year-old Nicholas R. Nolte from burning in his family’s one-story home on Jan. …
From the Archives: Circle-K clerk saves toddler in runaway truck
On the warm evening of May 19, 1967, 23-year-old mother Toni Diffie fastened her 3-year-old daughter Ginger Lee into a canvas car seat that hung from the backrest of the …
For the greater love of Rudell Stitch
By Glen Sharp NYfights.com Rudell Stitch died on a Sunday – June 5, 1960 – the day before he was to sign for a rematch with the No. 1-ranked welterweight …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 65
Nowadays, as I sit in my office, I am positioned under Carnegie’s portrait, and cannot help but reflect, with some awe, on the responsibility of following in the footsteps of …
From the Archives: Explosion in the Nuclear Reactor Room
On Jan. 3, 1961, representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Combustion Engineering Company were notified of an emergency at the National Reactor Testing Station located 8 miles north …
Carnegie Medal presentation at top of Squaw Peak impacts hero and victim
Henry F.F. Grant has hiked to the rocky, 1,642-foot summit of Squaw Peak, just miles from his Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home dozens of times since he was 3. But the …
Behind the Scenes: Shedding Light on the complicated case of Black Inventor Garrett Morgan
The rescues that occurred after the 1916 Cleveland Waterworks Tunnel Disaster required Hero Fund Investigator A.W. Crawford to parse even the minutest details to accurately determine the specific actions of …
Carnegie Medal, $500 awarded one year after attempted rescue
Carnegie Hero Helmer M. Aakvik was awarded the Carnegie Medal in October 1959, along with $500 to be spent on “a worthy purpose.” Carnegie Hero Fund records indicate that Aakvik’s …
Impulse 64: Board Notes
In this issue of Impulse, Editor Jewels Phraner takes you on a deep dive into the 1916 Cleveland Waterworks Tunnel Disaster which killed 21 and injured others. Phraner, a veteran …
Grave marker is inset into 1971 hero’s headstone
Family members worked together to add a Carnegie Medal grave marker to the headstone of Carnegie Hero Raymond J. Grundler, who died while trying to save two men from suffocating …
Thanksgiving ice-storm rescue highlighted in ‘Bold Sea Stories’ collection
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 17, 1958. The Old Man was at last headed home. His ordeal had begun a day earlier when a neighbor had worriedly told him, “The young fellow …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Scott Ullom and Zachary A. McDowell
At an Oct. 28, 2020, lunch in Washington, Pennsylvania, Hero Fund President Eric Zahren presented Carnegie heroes Scott Ullom left, and Zachary A. McDowell, right, with the Carnegie Medal. Medics …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Zachary Salce and Maddison Henslin
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, right, on Oct. 21, 2020, presented deputy Zachary Salce, left, and Maddison Henslin with the Carnegie Medal for their Nov. 13, 2018, rescue of …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael Douglas Barkhouse
Leaders in West Hants Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia honored one of their residents, Carnegie Hero Michael Douglas Barkhouse, left, at their Oct. 27, 2020, council meeting, where West Hants …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Kenneth L. Hamilton
St. Mary’s University police Chief David Ott, left, presents the Carnegie Medal to Sgt. Kenneth L. Hamilton, right, in a private, on-campus ceremony Oct. 1, 2020. Hamilton, 54, was off-duty …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Ernest J. Tarsitano
U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, right, recognized Ernest J. Tarsitano, of Galloway, New Jersey, for his heroism in helping save a man from a burning cabin in 2018. Van Drew, …
Friends remembered: Herbert A. Moran
Herbert A. Moran, 66, of Arnold, California, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California. When Moran was just 24 years old, he rescued 16-year-old Stacy …
Friends remembered: Gary F. Lamberty
Gary F. Lamberty, 70, of Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Nearly 30 years earlier, Lamberty was awarded the Carnegie Medal for helping save two individuals from a …