Brannon D. Heathman
Brannon D. Heathman helped to rescue Karen S. Murdock and Jill D. C. Watkins from burning, Oceanside, California, December 16, 2014. Murdock, 62, and Watkins, 53, lay unconscious on the …
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Adrian Gallo and Joe L. Serrano
Adrian Gallo and Joe L. Serrano saved Lyndelle H. Watkins from burning, Tucson, Arizona, May 16, 2015. Watkins, 69, was the driver of a pickup truck that was struck head …
Patrick J. Hopkins IV
Patrick J. Hopkins IV helped to save Kimberly Y. Foster from burning, Gainesville, Florida, June 26, 2015. Foster, 30, was in a bedroom of her family’s one-story house after fire …
Dinah Keturia McGee
Dinah Keturia McGee died attempting to rescue Linda F. Inscore from burning, Greeneville, Tennessee, July 10, 2015. Inscore, 63, who was infirm, was in her bedroom in the one-story house …
Michael J. Manley, Sr.
Michael J. Manley, Sr., died attempting to save Andrew Short from drowning, Virginia Beach, Virginia, September 27, 2015. While swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, Andrew, 17, was caught by a …
Justin Lee Greenwald
Justin Lee Greenwald saved Ronald L. Lallone from burning, Calabasas, California, November 29, 2015. Lallone, 81, was asleep in a bedroom in one end of his mobile home after fire …
Mitchell Allan Williams
Mitchell Allan Williams rescued James E. Davis from attacking dogs, St. Pauls, North Carolina, June 20, 2015 Davis, 73, was in his front yard when one of three pit bulls …
Steven Michael Hill
Steven Michael Hill rescued Avalyn D. Dufek from burning, Jacksonville, Florida, November 20, 2015. Avalyn, 1, was strapped into a car seat that was secured to the passenger side of …
Scott R. Williams
Scott R. Williams attempted to rescue Lara K. Sobel from assault, Barre, Vermont, August 7, 2015. Sobel, 48, was walking in the parking lot of a commercial building when an …
Bradley C. Runions and Adam Joe Martin
Bradley C. Runions and Adam Joe Martin saved Michael W. Remmert from burning, Hayward, Wisconsin, July 6, 2015. Remmert, 42, lay unconscious on the floor of the sunroom of his …
Christopher Chmielnicki
Christopher Chmielnicki helped to save Brenda D. Jelley from burning, Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, September 18, 2015. Jelley, 50, was asleep in the bedroom of a 37-foot motorhome that her boyfriend …
Jameson Bartscher and Todd D. Clausen
Jameson Bartscher and Todd D. Clausen rescued Cassidy J. Wanna from burning, and Bartscher rescued Gabrielle G. Wanna and Rebecca L. Stoughton, Summit, South Dakota, June 9, 2015. Cassidy, 2 …
15:13 Work-related accident claimed life of Carnegie Hero Donald Noel Harwood
Late in the morning on June 15, 1966, Donald Noel Harwood made the spur-of-the-moment decision that cost him his life as he struggled to save another’s. After his supervisor at …
September 2016 edition of imPULSE
The September 2016 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 articles about Carnegie Heroes who have …
President Obama gives Medal of Valor to Carnegie Hero
When both of Pittsburgh’s daily newspapers carried a photo of Donald E. Thompson on their front pages last May 17, 2015, it was like seeing an old friend. Thompson was …
Board notes: Judge the acts, not the actors
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “Judge not, lest you be judged.” —Matthew 7:1 That is how Jesus put it. In more modern terms, someone accused of questionable …
Carnegie Hero Connor M. Bystrom graduates vet school
Carnegie Hero Connor M. Bystrom of Holmes Beach, Fla., celebrated his veterinary school graduation in June 2016 with his parents, William and Jeannie Holmes Bystrom. Cited by the Hero Fund in …
Other medals for heroism
Andrew Carnegie believed that those who risk their lives to save others are to be recognized as the heroes of civilization, in contrast to “the heroes of barbarism,” who main …
Carnegie Hero Christopher Jon Ihle: Banker to builder
Following his award of the Carnegie Medal in 2014, Christopher Jon Ihle of Huxley, Iowa, went through something of a post-rescue career change, resulting in his new business, My Main …
Friends remembered: Jeffrey Robert Wieser and Thomas J. Norsworthy
Two young men from Southern California who met as strangers when they teamed up to save victims of a freeway crash 34 years ago died recently, within a period of …