Those honored at a formal, Jan. 13 ceremony honoring six Carnegie heroes stand proudly with the Carnegie Medal on stage at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. Five police officers and …
Kane County (Illinois) Sheriff Ron Hain, left, and Board Chair Corinne Pierog, right, pose with Carnegie Hero Lewis A. Medina during a Dec. 13, 2022, presentation at the Kane County …
The Madison County Board of Supervisors and Chairman John Becker, standing, look on as Andrew Parent, left photo, receives the Carnegie Medal from his granddaughter, Emma Holt, and Roger …
Carnegie heroes Damien Castro, Christopher Bryant Aboyte, and Robert Michael Sherock pose with the Carnegie Medal at a Jan. 17, 2023, presentation at Los Angeles police headquarters. The three officers …
From left, Hero Fund Director of Operations Melissa Brock and Commission member Lee Tilghman pose with Carsten Molt, Carnegie Hero Kenneth S. Andreen, and Hero Fund President Eric Zahren during …
Frank P. Axiotes receives the Carnegie Medal during a presentation held on November 21, 2022, at the state capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. From left, Nebraska State Patrol Superintendent Col. John …
On August 22, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas, a 27-year-old police officer was chasing a 44-year-old man when the man tripped and fell. The officer struggled on the street with …
While attending a youth horse-riding camp on August 18, 2020, in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, an 8-year-old girl was in a grassy area encircled by chairs when a 95-pound English Mastiff dog …
On May 2, 2022, two boys, 7 and 8, were inside their Clarksville, Tennessee home when a fire broke out in the kitchen on the same floor as their bedroom. …
On June 5, 2022, a man came into contact with an energized railway charged with 600 volts of electricity. Anthony R. Perry, a 20-year-old store associate, was getting off a …
A sailboat carrying John L. McKenna capsized in Little Egg Harbor on June 21, 2021. McKenna, unable to reenter the sailboat, floated in the harbor until he arrived near a …
While house-sitting in Mill Bay, British Columbia, on January 26, 2022, Lisa Maria Fox, a 51-year-old self-employed worker, heard a crash outside that sent Kellee M. Brown’s truck into the …
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. An 18-year-old woman struggled to maintain a hold on the metal support post of a basketball hoop after rapid-flowing water flooded a park in Columbia, Missouri, on June 25, …
A 62-year-old man was swimming in a bay off the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California, on June 22, 2022, when a Great White shark at least …
On the morning of March 11, 2021, a vehicle driven by a man entered the Sacramento River outside Walnut Grove, California. Driving nearby, Christopher B. Arias, a 39-year-old low voltage …
On a clear and frigid day in Lark Harbour, Newfoundland, John K. Parsons, 68, and Ralph Leo Joyce, 72, former cleaner, of Lark Harbour, were walking along a trail that followed …
Following an accident that caused his car to enter a retention pond, an 18-year-old man called out for help as he struggled in deep water in Sunrise, Florida, on April …
A 29-year-old oil company line leader from Advance, Indiana, was driving in Whitestown, Indiana, on December 5, 2020, when he noticed flames issuing from a second-floor bedroom window. Cody Hartman …
A 32-year-old preschool teacher was sleeping inside her Gregory, Michigan, apartment with her four children when flames broke out on Oct. 26, 2021. Waking to the sounds of the fire …
Carnegie Hero Brandon Bair, left, receives Carnegie Medal from Carnegie Hero Fund Commission member Arthur Scully at a presentation in Rexburg, Idaho, on Nov. 21, 2022. Bair and his family …
