Carnegie Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren presented Carnegie Hero Brent Rudy Edwards, center, with the Carnegie Medal at a March 1, 2019, ceremony at Philadelphia Fire Department’s Engine 54 Fire …
From left, Oconto, Wis., City Administrator Sara Perrizo and Mayor Lloyd Heier congratulate Eugene Stamsta during the presentation of the Carnegie Medal during a city council meeting on March 12, …
Carnegie Hero David Duncan, left, poses with Barnstable (Mass.) Police Officer James M. Melia after Melia presented him with the Carnegie Medal on March 13, 2019, at the Barnstable Police …
April 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of a Salmo mine accident and resulting acts of extraordinary heroism by 12 men, who were awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1972. It is …
It is my privilege to shake hands with those heroes … and to present to them the awards of the Hero Fund, assuring them that the victories of war which …
Sheriff’s deputy Charles Franklin Hoop saved a 19-year-old man from falling off a bridge, 486 feet above the Snake River on Dec. 14, 2017, in Twin Falls, Idaho. Hoop, 40, …
In the early morning of Nov. 24, 2017, Kristian B. Harrison, 47, a concrete finisher, responded barefoot to his neighbor’s Dayton, Ky., burning house after being awakened by a man …
Thirty-year-old crane inspector David J. Connelly rescued a couple in their 60s from drowning in a submerging vehicle on Dec. 22, 2016, in Doswell, Va. Brian D. Turner, 62, and …
Police officers Christopher M. Olup, 34, and Robert Prochazka, 49, saved a man from a burning Willowick, Ohio, home on April 5, 2016. The 54-year-old man, who had mobility issues, …
Steven B. Wahler, 47, and Bradley Eugene Murphy, 21, both died during an Oct. 9, 2017, rescue in Gulf Shores, Ala. A 12-year-old boy was playing in rough surf in …
A 64-year-old retired teacher saved a woman from being struck by a train Oct. 10, 2017, in Brookhaven, N.Y. Janice C. Esposito, 43, was driving a van when it collided …
After a Nov. 7, 2017, interstate accident in Louisville, Ky., 59-year-old Brad E. Vandeventer remained in the cabin of a semi-truck that had overturned onto its passenger side and slid …
Off-duty police officer Arcangelo F. Liberatore, 31, rescued a 5-year-old girl from an attacking coyote on April 29, 2018, in Thornwood, N.Y. Natalia K. Petrellese was playing in a park …
Malik Andre Williams, 25, and 17-year-old Van U. Thang rescued a 6-year-old boy who had fallen into the Mississippi River June 6, 2017, in Moline, Ill. Williams, a laborer, jumped …
On Jan. 4, 2018, Kali Allen, 38, delivery truck driver, attempted to rescue 55-year-old Jeffrey K. McIlroy from drowning in Catoosa, Okla. McIlroy had fallen through ice into a deep …
Forty-three-year-old film set painter Timonthy Hunley was traveling March 29, 2018, on an interstate highway in Walterboro, S.C., when he witnessed an accident in which a semi-tractor that was towing …
Loggers Michael James Jordan, 47, and his son, Wyatt, 20, saved a 24-year-old woman who was trapped inside her burning pickup truck after a highway accident on Nov. 14, 2017, …
County tax assessor Christopher Schafer, 42, helped save 16-year-old farmer Colt J. Brink from a burning semi-truck after an Aug. 17, 2017, accident in Blunt, S.D. Colt was semi-conscious and …
Forty-five-year-old Nicholas Anderson saved five people from burning when he stopped at the scene of a May 26, 2017, accident in Willits, Calif. Six people were inside a pickup truck …
Last Fall, a nephew’s years-long effort to get his uncle, Carnegie Medal awardee Raymond J. Grundler, inducted into the hall of fame of their alma mater paid off. Along with …
