Shawn H. Turner
A 34-year-old woman was driving on a Boca Raton, Florida, road on Feb. 23, 2020, when she suffered a medical emergency and passed out. Her vehicle veered off the road …
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A 34-year-old woman was driving on a Boca Raton, Florida, road on Feb. 23, 2020, when she suffered a medical emergency and passed out. Her vehicle veered off the road …
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Two brothers entered the frigid Dec. 22, 2019, waters of Lake Mohegan near Fairfield, Connecticut, in 2019 to save a 24-year-old man who had entered the lake to retrieve a …
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Upon hearing screaming on May 22, 2020, outside his Willington, Connecticut, home, John A. Franco, 80, approached a 23-year-old man who was standing over a 62-year-old man on the ground …
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Michael Robert Keyser, who received the Carnegie Medal 30 years earlier for saving a motorist from being electrocuted after a 1990 single-vehicle accident, will posthumously receive a second Carnegie Medal …
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A Williamson County, Texas, sheriff’s deputy went above and beyond his duties on April 15, 2020, when he partially entered a burning van to remove a 22-year-old passenger. Jonathan A. …
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Despite rescue efforts by a crowd of people, 17-year-old Christian Alexander Burgos drowned Sept. 30, 2019, after saving a 9-year-old boy and returning to rough water to save the boy’s …
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A day at the lake turned deadly for a group of teen boys in Cutler Bay, Florida, on Sept. 27, 2018. Two of the boys were swimming in a deep …
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After a plane crash on Oct. 2, 2019, at a Windsor Locks, Connecticut, airport, employees, including 28- year-old operations supervisor Andrew J. Sullivan, of Enfield, Connecticut evacuated to a nearby …
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Christopher Etre was driving in Grafton, Massachusetts, the night of Dec. 13, 2019, when he saw a car slide off the road and enter the Quinsigamond River. A construction company …
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Carnegie Hero Norman Tanner Olsen is still recovering from injuries sustained while saving a man from burning on Sept. 1, 2019, at a remote mountain campground near Kamas, Utah. A …
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Six people in the Hero Fund’s history have been awarded the Carnegie Medal twice — for separate acts, often years apart — in which they risked their lives for another …
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The Hero Fund is proud to announce that the first volume of its Roll of Honor is available to view online. The electronic PDF file mirrors the tome, published in …
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A 60-year-old public commuter bus driver in Tampa, Florida, was sprayed with pepper spray by an agitated man that had just entered the bus on Nov. 19, 2019. Using a …
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After a man wielding a pump-action shotgun shot through the locked, front door of an Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper office and shot a sales assistant, severely wounding her, he proceeded toward …
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Jonathan Stein-Palmiere, a 20-year-old apprentice carpenter of Calgary, Alberta, died May 31, 2019, after entering Lake Windermere near Windermere, British Columbia, to rescue a 10-year-old girl struggling in the water. …
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A 23-year-old mother and her three young children were walking along an Akron, Ohio, sidewalk on June 16, 2019, when the mother’s ex-partner, armed with a handgun, approached them and …
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After his 3-year-old son fell into a 20-feet-deep channel on June 15, 2019, near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Christopher F.N. Schultz jumped in after him, fully clothed. Schultz, a 31-year-old construction …
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A fishing trip could have turned deadly if it weren’t for the quick actions of Benjamin M. Blostein, a 30-year-old commercial roofer of Royal Oak, Michigan. On June 6, 2019, …
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Harmanjeet Singh Gill, a 20-year-old truck driver from Brampton, Ontario, was driving Aug. 29, 2018, in Brampton when he saw a violent crash in which an SUV struck several vehicles …
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Two Hannibal, Missouri, cousins responded to a deadly boat accident on the Mississippi River near Hull, Illinois, on Aug. 3, 2019. Robert J. Whitley, a 38-year-old construction worker, and James …