Kevin D. Little, Jr.
Kevin D. Little, Jr., died attempting to save Tae’Najah Morgan from a burning building in Milwaukee on Oct. 20, 2015. Tae’Najah, 2, was in a bedroom on the second floor …
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Eric W. Edwards
Eric W. Edwards rescued Orlando A. Villalobos from drowning in Watsonville, Calif., on Feb. 14, 2015. Villalobos, 37, was swimming in the Pacific Ocean when he was caught in a …
John Paul Hollyfield
John Paul Hollyfield saved Ashley S. Gruwell from being struck by a falling tree limb in Accokeek, Md., on July 9, 2015. During a cookout on the wooded Moyaone Reserve, …
Richard William Dorrity
Richard William Dorrity saved Clyde D. Willoughby from a burning vehicle in Livingston, Calif., on April 19, 2016. Willoughby, 19, was the front seat passenger in a pickup truck that …
James O. Vernon
James O. Vernon saved 17 children and four women from assault in Morton, Ill., on Oct. 13, 2015. The children and women were in a conference room of a public …
Jamie Alan Hyatt
Jamie Alan Hyatt died attempting to rescue David D. Syring from suffocation in Granite Falls, Minn., on Jan. 7, 2016. Syring, 34, was working on a farm inside a tanker-trailer …
Nathan Michael Stieg and Jayden Charles Concha
Nathan Michael Stieg and Jayden Charles Concha helped to rescue Edward W. Shypkoski and attempted to help rescue Frederick J. Ewoniuk from drowning in Mandaree, N.D. on Feb. 20, 2016. …
Kevin L. Heselton
Kevin L. Heselton rescued Marcy L. Andrews from assault in San Rafael, Calif., on June 18, 2016. Andrews was in her fenced-in backyard when a man entered the yard and …
Tanner Douglas Boslau
Tanner Douglas Boslau saved Teresa Samano from drowning in Bend, Ore., on Aug. 7, 2016. On the Deschutes River, Samano, 58, floated on an inner tube into an impoundment for …
Vincent Santaniello and Harold Shaw
Vincent Santaniello and Harold Shaw saved Crystal G. Roup from a burning vehicle in Uhrichsville, Ohio, on Sept. 27, 2016. At night in a rural area, Roup, 32, was the …
Bobby Lynn Arnold
Bobby Lynn Arnold died helping to rescue Emily A. Nevil from drowning in Trinity, Texas, on June 29, 2016. Emily, 7, while boating with her family, fell from the bow …
Merrill O. Naylor
Merrill O. Naylor rescued Sheryl C. Lewis from a burning building in Stephens City, Va., on Nov. 4, 2015. In the evening, Lewis, 70, awoke in her bedroom inside her …
René Roy
René Roy saved Robert Mercier from a burning vehicle in Sherbrooke, Que., on Aug. 5, 2016. At night, Mercier, 78, remained inside the car he was driving after it had …
Brian G. Bergkamp
Brian G. Bergkamp died attempting to save Kristen L. Eck from drowning, Wichita, Kansas, July 9, 2016. On the high and fast-moving Arkansas River, Eck, 26, was in a kayak …
John David Smith
John David Smith saved Kaarisa B. Karley from burning, Snoqualmie, Washington, July 18, 2016. Karley, 70, was slumped over in the front seats of her coupe after an interstate highway …
Robbie Goering-Jensen
Robbie Goering-Jensen saved Gregory L. and Lula M. Damper from burning, Omaha, Nebraska, December 20, 2015. Gregory, 57, was in a wheelchair in the living room of his family’s one-story …
Robert Conant
Robert Conant helped to save Daniel Fredericks from falling, Oakville, Ontario, April 18, 2015. Fredericks, 23, slid about 20 feet down the steep wall of a ravine at a provincial …
Scott B. Keller
Scott B. Keller saved Yusuf Salem from burning, Dearborn Heights, Michigan, July 29, 2016. Yusuf, 7, was on the second floor of his family’s two-story townhouse after a fire broke …
David Blauzvern, Gary J. Messina, and John J. Green III
David Blauzvern, Gary J. Messina, and John J. Green III saved a man from drowning, New York City, New York, June 1, 2016. The man was bobbing in the East …
Louis Daniel Scharold
Louis Daniel Scharold saved Brian C. Ashcraft from burning, Grants Lick, Kentucky, April 25, 2016. Ashcraft, 48, was the driver of a refuse truck that was struck nearly head on …