The Rev. Ian Stamps presented Carnegie Hero Angela Lynn McQueen, of Mattoon, Ill., the Carnegie Medal at a private ceremony held Oct. 6, 2019, at Broadway Christian Church in Mattoon. …
Carnegie Hero Heather Zabrowski, right, is shown with Hero Fund President Eric Zahren after a Dec. 14, 2019, ceremony honoring her at the McLane Black Lake Fire Department in Olympia, …
Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, left, and Chair Mark Laskow, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Phillip H. DiLuca at a private ceremony held Nov. 15, 2019, at the Allegheny …
Krista E. Grosskleg, 40, was wading with her daughter in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at a public beach July 22, 2017, in Inverness, N.S. The pair lost their footing …
Neighbors Zachary Salce, 24, sheriff’s department custody deputy, and Maddison Henslin, 21, animal welfare specialist, responded to a burning apartment located below theirs on Nov. 13, 2018, in Lompoc, Calif. …
Danny Lee Tiger, a 46-year-old administrator, formerly from Ada., Okla., saved Nathan P. Nolen, 43, from a burning truck after a head-on collision with another vehicle on a rural highway …
After entering the Pacific Ocean from a beach in a cove in the early morning of Jan. 10, a man struggled to swim as high, surging waves washed him toward …
Tyler James Hance, a 25-year-old laborer, of Fort Covington, N.Y., spotted a sinking SUV in an ice-covered pond Dec. 11, 2018, in Kirksville, Mo. Undressing to his jeans, he waded …
On a family outing to the American River near Kyburz, Calif., on June 23, 2018, 9-year-old Mir Zahed Ahmad fell from a rock into the swift-moving river. Despite not knowing …
Home remodeler Philip L. Hall, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M., was inside his apartment April 29, 2018, when he heard his neighbor scream for help and saw her 2-year-old great grandson, …
Arriving after a car crashed into Belleville’s Passaic River on March 4, 2019, railroad signal maintainer Michael Benjamin James, 36, of Belleville, N.J., stopped at the scene and entered the …
A retired construction consultant, 68-year-old Julius A. Ortenzo, of Prescott, Ariz., was inside a car on a remote highway in Ash Fork, Ariz., when he witnessed an SUV on fire …
After arriving at the scene of a burning Sturgis, S.D., house May 12, 2018, and learning that 47-year-old Jason R. McKee was still inside, police Officer Dylan M. Goetsch, 27, …
A father died attempting to save his daughter from their burning home Nov. 20, 2018, in Lubbock, Texas. David S. Turner, Sr., a 70-year-old retired parole officer, entered his burning …
A 30-year-old pizza delivery driver was returning to the pizzeria July 3, 2018, when he saw an overturned SUV off a two-lane highway in South Barrington, Ill. Smoke was issuing …
Police officer Sean R. Dias, 37, was first on the scene of a burning home Nov. 19, 2017, in Braintree, Mass. Dias located a 69-year-old man sitting in a wheelchair …
Retired laborer Steven W. Fitzpatrick, of Marysville, Wash., responded to his neighbor’s burning mobile home on April 18, 2018. With fire extinguishers, Fitzpatrick entered the home’s living room through the …
During heavy rain, motorist Daniel E. Samis, 67, was stranded in his car on a flooded section of road Aug. 31, 2018, in Bel Air, Md. Driving nearby, 31-year-old Kyle …
A popular Wisconsin campground near Lake Superior that Carnegie Hero Dennis D. Swenson operated with his mother now encompasses the majority of a forest preserve that is open to the …
Doris Clark lost 16-year-old son Michael Deutsch in the roiling waters at the base of a dam on the Fox River near Chicago on June 9, 1993. Although it took …
