COVID-19 resolution
WHEREAS, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, under the terms of its foundation, is empowered and expected to exercise the intentions of the founder in recognizing the exhibition of selfless heroism …
News
Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
Author: Carnegie Hero Fund
Yolanda Robinson Isom
A 35-year-old nursing assistant re-entered her burning, Rock Hill, S.C., home Sept. 29, 2018, for three of her sons who were still inside. Yolanda Robinson Isom was sleeping inside the …
Marcos Gil
Despite being a poor swimmer, 17-year-old Marcos Gil on April 28, 2018, jumped into the Portneuf River near Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, where a 14 year-old girl, struggling and caught …
Christopher Lanski
Scott Ullom and Zachary A. McDowell
Grant A. Goffinet and Brent D. Duncan
Despite having no fire-rescue training, Jasper (Ind.) Police officers Grant A. Goffinet and Brent D. Duncan arrived at the scene of a Sept. 16, 2018, accident where the front passenger …
Scott Cooper
Scott Cooper, a sergeant at an Ocala, Fla., correctional facility, was fishing on Oct. 13, 2018, from a dock of a nearby jetty in the Gulf of Mexico in St. …
Robert Todd Riddle
Robert Todd Riddle, a 56-year-old maintenance technician of Deer Park, Texas, on Sept. 4, 2019, was on a boardwalk adjacent to Trinity Bay in Kemah, Texas, when he saw an …
Isiah Jamal Pierce
Isiah Jamal Pierce and his partner were sleeping in their bedroom with her 1-year-old daughter, Mahogany R. Brownlow, when fire broke out in their Laurel, Miss., home during the night …
2019 in review: 73 awards made, more than $786K dispersed in grants
2019 was a relatively quiet year for the Hero Fund compared to the previous year’s excitement of our 10,000th medal awarded. But 2019 was nonetheless a landmark year as the …
Board Notes: Global pandemic requires everyone to sacrifice
“You know, I’d better write my Impulse article now, before I catch this damned virus.” I’ve been writing this quarterly column since 2007, or thereabouts, but this is the first …
Carnegie hero memorializes act with forearm tattoo
On the outside of Julie K. Callaghan’s forearm, just above her wrist, a reminder in black ink spells out “50 mph” in slanted script with an arrow extending from the …
Norfolk Southern railroad features Carnegie hero during Black History Month
Hero laid to rest in Indonesia, grave in family plot marked with Carnegie medallion
A Carnegie hero laid to rest in Indonesia now has a grave marker denoting the heroism he exhibited nearly 60 years before his death. “Few natives in this population have …
Symposium named for Carnegie hero celebrates 10 years
Developed by retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Perry Smith, who is also Smith’s son-in-law, the symposium includes a one-hour program that touches on Dyess’ life. “There’s a pattern to …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Danny Lee Tiger
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Danny Lee Tiger, of Ardmore, Okla., in a Feb. 11, 2020, ceremony in Oklahoma City. On June 26, 2019, when …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael Benjamin James
Railroad signal maintainer Michael Benjamin James, center, celebrated with his mother, Janet Shuler, left, and wife, Cortney Skelding, right, after he received the Carnegie Medal from Michael Melham, mayor of …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to widow of Carnegie Hero David Covington
Photo by William R. Toler/Richmond (N.C.) Observer. Rockingham (N.C.) Mayor Steve Morris, left, presents the Carnegie Medal awarded to the late David Covington to his widow, Jane, center, and nephew, …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Darren M. Smith
Hero Fund Commission members A.H. Burchfield III, left, and Dan D. Sandman, right, presented Carnegie Hero Darren M. Smith, center, with the Carnegie Medal Jan. 17, 2020, in Vero Beach, …
Accident on 1914 film set spurs camera man to attempt rescue of actress
It wasn’t supposed to be a dramatic scene. For a movie depicting gun smuggling at the U.S. border with Mexico, this sequence simply was to show a bandit’s daughter crossing …