Friends Remembered: Donal A. Wallace
Carnegie Hero Donal A. Wallace, 93, died Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 in Happy Valley, Oregon surrounded by his family. Wallace was born May 25, 1930 in Sonora, California to Arthur …
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Friends Remembered: Dan Sandman
Hero Fund Commission member Dan Sandman, 75, of Vero Beach, Florida, and Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. He had served on the Commission for 21 years. …
Friends Remembered: Stanley W. Bowes
Stanley W. Bowes, 86, died on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, at the Regina General Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bowes was born to Stan and Freda (Olson) Bowes in Walpole, Saskatchewan, …
Friends Remembered: Steven Alan Tarnoff
Steven Alan Tarnoff, 73, died on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Morristown, Tennessee. Tarnoff received the Carnegie Medal in 1981 after saving a man from burning after a plane crashed …
Carnegie Medal for Heroism presentation to Joseph D. Donnell
Carnegie Hero Joseph D. Donnell, center, recalls the rescue of a 9-year-old boy from a submerged vehicle in a remote reservoir in Oakley, Utah, at his hometown’s Jan. 7 council …
Carnegie Medal for Heroism presentation to Robert M. Wilson, Jr. and Andrew Reischl
Glendale (Wisconsin) police officers Robert M. Wilson, Jr., center, and Andrew Reischl, right, pose with the Carnegie Medal with police Chief Mark Ferguson, who presented the medals to them during …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Tyler Badet
Carnegie Hero Tyler Badet poses with U.S. Rep. Scott Peters, who presented the Carnegie Medal to him at a Dec. 19 private ceremony held at Peters’ district office in …
Carnegie Medal for Heroism presentation to the family of Anthony Diehl
Family members of Carnegie Hero Anthony Diehl gathered to receive his Carnegie Medal at a presentation held at a Jan. 8 city council meeting in Beavercreek, Ohio. Pictured, from left, …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Stephen Rhodes
Carnegie Hero Stephen D. Rhodes stands with Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards holding the Carnegie Medal that Edwards presented to Rhodes at a Dec. 6 Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Mickey Wilson
Carnegie Hero Mickey Wilson posing with Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado after she presented him with the Carnegie Medal of Heroism at a private ceremony held Nov. 10 with her …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Gerold Prather
Carnegie Hero Gerold Prather poses with U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga after Huizenga presented the Kalamazoo resident with the Carnegie Medal at a private presentation held Dec. 18, at Huizenga’s Portage …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Lloyd Muldrow
Carnegie Hero Lloyd Muldrow was presented with the Carnegie Medal on Dec. 5, 2023, at an event held at the National Montford Point Marine Association in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Muldrow …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Kealii J. Akahane
Carnegie Hero Kealii J. Akahane, who is also a Bellevue (Washington) policer was presented with the Carnegie Medal during a city council meeting held Sept. 18, 2023 at city hall. …
Mauricio Rodas-García
Martha Gonzalez, 58, was wading in the Long Island Sound off of Norwalk, Connecticut, on July 31, 2022, when she lost her footing and struggled to swim amid a strong …
Heath Martin
On June 23, 2023, 36-year-old Joshua Unglesby, who is paralyzed from the waist down, was asleep in the rear bedroom of his one-story home in Springboro, Ohio, when a fire …
John Chase
Joseph Radtke, 80, had gone fishing with his dog on July 17, 2023, in Vail, Colorado. As he tried to cross Gore Creek at a shallow point his dog pulled …
Adem Qorri
On March 26, 2023, in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Carson Furness, 6, and his 10-year-old brother were caught in a fast moving current while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. Anchored …
Sean L. James
Three children were trapped inside a SUV after a June 6, 2022, accident in Emporia, Kansas. Madilyn McNack, 6, and her brothers, Jaseh McNack, 2, and Alexander Wilson-McNack, 8, were …
Thomas Elbrecht
While backcountry skiing on Dec. 14, 2022, in a remote area of the Wasatch Mountain Range in Millcreek, Utah, Travis Haussener, 35, was caught in a 200-foot wide, 2-foot deep …
Ryan Pasborg
A mother, 34, and her son, 4, had fallen unconscious inside the kitchen of their burning home on Feb. 2, 2022, in Green River, Wyoming. Ryan Pasborg, a 33-year-old derrickhand …