Stephen D. Rhodes
A fish and wildlife enforcement officer jumped into action on May 7, 2022, to save a 7-year-old girl who was trapped underwater beneath an overturned boat in the Gulf of …
Author: Jewels Phraner
David Philip Duffey
A 25-year-old college student was driving in Irwin, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 16, 2022, when he saw the tractor trailer in front of him veer off the highway, collide into a …
Anthony Diehl
Carnegie Hero Anthony Diehl died July 13, 2022, attempting to save his 7-year-old nephew from drowning near South Haven, Michigan. Elijah T. Britt was playing in the shallow water of …
Robert M. Wilson, Jr., and Andrew Reischl
Two Glendale (Wisconsin) police officers entered the dangerously cold Milwaukee River on April 10, 2022, to rescue an unresponsive driver, 46, of an SUV that had entered the river and …
Joseph D. Donnell
A 9-year-old boy was trapped Aug. 22, 2022, in a pickup truck submerged in water 9 feet deep in a remote Oakley, Utah, reservoir. Paxton K. Knight was with two …
Tyler Badet
An 18-year-old man found himself amid crashing 10-foot waves threatening to pound him into seaside cliffs in San Diego while attempting a Jan. 6, 2021, rescue of a couple who had …
Kendall Reyes
A Palm Beach police officer intervened in a June 18, 2023, suicide attempt in which a 67-year-old, distraught woman was perched on the ledge of a six-story building, about 50 …
Jordan B. Kurtzer
A 49-year-old man lost consciousness behind the wheel of his four-door pickup truck, which left a Lincoln, Nebraska, road and entered a residential pond on Sept. 3, 2022. As the …
Lloyd Muldrow
A 57-year-old club-goer jumped into action July 4, 2022, after a man struck his friend in the face with a handgun. As people inside the Baltimore club shouted that the …
Sean Patrick Kalletta
Suffolk County (New York) police officer Sean Patrick Kalletta responded to a Jan. 2, 2021, house fire in Selden, New York, where a couple remained inside the home while attempting …
Jonathon Baez
A 25-year-old Mesa, Arizona, painter leaped into action Feb. 18, 2022, after seeing smoke issuing from a Mesa apartment building. As Carnegie Hero Jonathon Baez approached the building, he learned …
Christine Dawn King
On July 28, 2022, a 52-year-old woman was driving nearby when she came upon a man holding his 18-month-old daughter over the ledge of a Philadelphia highway overpass threatening to …
James G. David
A 62-year-old grandfather drowned July 16, 2022, while attempting to save his 4-year-old grandson from the same fate in the Saginaw Bay off of Essexville, Michigan. Kolton R. David, who …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 74
Attract the attention of the people. This leads them to think … and finally to stir within themselves the desire to go and do likewise. — May 31, 1905 letter …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Kevin Conklin
Carnegie Hero Kevin Conklin, 19, examines the Carnegie Medal with Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, right, while Conklin’s mother Qiang Conklin and stepfather Michael Shaughnessy look on. Hero Fund staff …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Kortnie Balls
Carnegie Hero Commission member Arthur M. Scully and Carnegie Hero Kortnie Balls pose for a photo after Scully presented the Carnegie Medal to Balls in an Aug. 2, 2023, private …
John M. Murphy
A 71-year-old man was fishing Dec. 18, 2021, in the 44-degree Sacramento River in Castella, California, when he lost his footing and was carried downstream. Bracing against an underwater boulder, …
Aleem Ramji, deceased
On Sept. 3, 2020, two sisters, Raabia K. Basaria, 22, and Zeanna K. Basaria, 16, were washed from a pier into Lake Huron off of Kincardine, Ontario, and struggled in …
Brady M. Pratt
A violent head-on collision in Petronila, Texas, left an SUV and sedan burning in a field off of the highway on Dec. 20, 2020. Brady M. Pratt, a 35-year-old off-duty …
James Blouin and Ryan Ross
During an early morning May 19, 2022, traffic stop, a Sequim, Washington, police officer was tackled to the ground. A violent struggle ensued for nearly 2.5 minutes while the assailant, …