Friends Remembered: Impulse No. 80
Friends Remembered is a collection of tributes to Carnegie heroes, beneficiaries, and others we have lost since the last edition of Impulse. They are listed chronologically by date of passing. …
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Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
Author: Jewels Phraner
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Clarence McCallister
Carnegie Hero Clarence McCallister was honored at a recent Hero Fund board meeting in downtown Pittsburgh. Hero Fund staff and board members on Dec. 10 honored McCallister with a presentation …
Pittsburgh’s Thomas Wentling elected as Hero Fund Chair
At its annual meeting on June 18, 2024, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission elected Thomas L. Wentling, Jr., to serve as the Commission’s chair, effective immediately. Mr. Wentling replaces Eric …
Annie Bilotta, Tisch Schmidt-Williams, Aune Tietz, and Erica Wolf
Five women, all part of the same cycling team, were riding on a remote, forest trail near Fall City, Washington, on Feb. 17, 2024, when a cougar lunged at 60-year-old …
Daniel L. Weiss
A 29-year-old woman was unconscious in the driver’s seat of her two-door coupe after a May 17, 2022, accident in which the car left a Greensboro, North Carolina, rural road …
Christopher Bischoff and Kelsey Schwuchow
Two preteen sisters were playing in Lake Michigan off of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 27, 2023, when they both began to struggle at a point beyond wadable water. They fought …
Rolando Rene Caballero
Halil Cakmaktas, 70, was fishing from a narrow, concrete pier near a channel connecting Keith Lake to the Port Arthur Ship Canal in Port Arthur, Texas, on July 21, 2021, …
John Cheng and Billy Chang
At least 45 people were in the social hall of a Laguna Woods, California, church following a May 15, 2022, luncheon, when a 68-year-old man armed with two semi-automatic pistols …
Kevin James Schell
Three men in their 20s were on a recreational pier in Bracebridge, Ontario, that extended over the Muskoka River on August 24, 2020, when one of them accidentally entered the …
Sara Schaller
A 14-year-old girl and her 18-year-old cousin were swimming in Lake Michigan off Porter, Indiana, when they were caught in a rip current and waves 4 feet high on June …
John Parks
Bennett Roth, 69, was walking after nightfall along a six-lane street in Washington, District of Columbia, on Jan. 11, 2024, when a vehicle stopped beside him and multiple people in …
Christopher and Joseph Novecosky
Seven-year-old Ava and 6-year-old Evelyn Novecosky were playing outside on the afternoon of Nov. 4, when they fell through thin ice covering Humboldt Lake outside their home near Humboldt, Saskatchewan. …
Antwaun M. Jackson
In the afternoon of July 9, 2022, in North Topsail Beach, North Carolina, two women, 24 and 33, were teaching two young family members, 7 and 6, how to use …
Daniel Rose and David Chapman
An 8-year-old boy fell unconscious to the ground, his body smoking, after being electrocuted on Aug. 30, 2022, by a live wire that had been downed above a residential street …
The Heroic Age
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Heath Martin
Hero Fund President Eric Zahren presented the Carnegie Medal to Springboro (Ohio) police officer Heath Martin Thursday, April 4, 2024, at the Springboro Council meeting. “While we recognize with gratitude …
Jakob Thompson
A 35-year-old woman entered the Boynton Inlet near Ocean Ridge, Florida, on Nov. 30, 2023. The inlet is flanked by seawalls making exiting the water extremely difficult. Additionally, a strong, …
Tawny Hinton
Two 11-year-old boys were playing near a retention pond in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Aug. 29, 2022, when the one of them slipped into the water and was pulled through a …
Robyn Handley
On Dec. 22, 2020, a 72-year-old woman was out for a walk in a Florissant, Missouri, neighborhood, when four pit bull dogs attacked her on a sidewalk. The dogs knocked …
Michael Louis Lesan
Two teenage girls were swimming on June 22, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean off of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, when they were caught in a rip current and struggled to …