James Edward Giles
James Edward Giles rescued a boy and girl from a burning building in Terrace, B.C., on Oct. 18, 2016. Two young siblings, a boy and a girl, were in a …
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James Edward Giles rescued a boy and girl from a burning building in Terrace, B.C., on Oct. 18, 2016. Two young siblings, a boy and a girl, were in a …
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Frank B. Conselman saved a 32-year-old man and helped to save Robert S. Marchand from drowning in Pensacola Beach, Fla., on July 26, 2016. Marchand, 36, and the 32-year-old man …
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Noah Hill King saved Jonathon A. Chiodo from a burning vehicle in Panama City, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2016. Chiodo, 23, was the driver of a sport utility vehicle that …
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Thomas M. Petruszak died attempting to save Adam M. Woodruff from drowning in Gladstone, Mich., on Sept. 3, 2016. Woodruff, 37, was fishing from a motorboat in a Lake Michigan …
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Davis Ilan Zinsenheim died attempting to save Joseph H. Hopkins from falling in Lake Toxaway, N.C., on May 10, 2016. While hiking in a mountainous area during the evening, Hopkins, …
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Austin Craig Welch died attempting to save Crystal E. Droz from drowning in Bartow, Fla., on Sept. 3, 2016. Crystal, 11, was fishing in a river from a small dock …
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Terryann E. Thomas rescued Tammy K. Walter from assault in Topeka, Kan., on July 10, 2015. Walter, 50, was punched by a man in a public waiting room of a …
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Demetrius T. Johnson, Sr., died attempting to save Demetrius T. Johnson, Jr., from a burning building in Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 19, 2016. Demetrius, 3, was in a bedroom of …
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Courtney Baynes Dorsey died attempting to save Coey D. Dorsey from drowning in Pawleys Island, S.C. on July 3, 2016. Coey, 13, was wading in the Atlantic Ocean when he …
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Jason Allen Williams rescued Michael J. Bridges from a burning vehicle in Apopka, Fla. on Aug. 4, 2016. Bridges, 61, was the driver of a grapple truck that was in …
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Robin Ireland rescued a woman from assault in Plymouth, Mass. on July 14, 2016. In the afternoon, a 39-year-old woman was jogging alone on a wooded trail at a municipal …
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The September 2017 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as updates on several awardees, including …
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When Walter Rutkowski walked into the Hero Fund offices in September 1973, as a newly hired field investigator, the future must have gleamed like the resident typewriter keys busy telling …
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Last fall, Michael J. Manley, Sr., was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal for attempting to save his step-son, Andrew Short, from drowning one year earlier. Manley drowned in the rough …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Organizations that prosper for 113 years must have something special going for them. Walter F. Rutkowski was certainly something special for the …
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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Executive Director Eric P. Zahren, left, presented the Carnegie Medal to Sanford Harling, Jr. and Dana Henderson, the parents of posthumous Carnegie Hero Sanford Harling III …
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Carnegie Hero Humberto Sanchez III, left, holding son Jayden Sanchez, walks onto the stage to accept his Carnegie Medal, presented by Stockton, Calif., Mayor Michael Tubbs at a state-of-the-city event …
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St. Charles Police Chief James Keegan, Suzette B. Turyna, Carnegie Hero Steven L. Spurling, and volunteer presenter Paul A. Ansolabehere pose with the Carnegie Medal after Ansolabehere presented it to …
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Nearly 85 years to the day that Weldon M. Praytor helped a man escape from the bottom of a well, Praytor’s descendants recognized his heroism at a family reunion held …
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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Executive Director Eric P. Zahren presented the Carnegie Medal to Richard David Greeno and Lisa McNairy in ceremonies held May 18, 2017. In October, 2015, Greeno and …