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, …
Author: Jewels Phraner
Victor Villanueva, deceased, and Casandra Joann Kendrick, deceased
Victor Villanueva and Casandra Joann Kendrick drowned while saving two small children from the same fate during a June 13, 2021, fishing trip in Seguin, Texas. Villanueva, a 30-year-old lumberyard …
Thomas Kenning, deceased
Last June 27, 2022, a 16-year-old girl was wading in Lake Michigan off of Porter, Indiana, when she was pulled away from shore into water at least 5 feet deep. …
Manjit Singh, deceased
A 31-year-old farmer drowned Aug. 5, 2020, attempting to save an 8-year-old girl in the Kings River in Reedley, California. Samantha Cruz Pedro struggled to swim as she was separated …
Kealii J. Akahane
A Bellevue, Washington, police officer saved a 17-year-old from drowning after the boy, wearing a backpack filled with 50 pounds of weights, entered Phantom Lake on June 6, 2022. On …
Robert Cody Moore
A 53-year-old trader jumped into the 68-degree Houston Ship Channel off of La Porte, Texas, after a car entered the channel on New Year’s Eve 2021. Robert Cody Moore of …
Gerold Prather
A 16-year-old boy struggled to swim in Lake Michigan during a May 15, 2022, outing with his cousin and two friends at a beach off of Sawyer, Michigan. The boy …
Joseph P. Cockerill
After a Sept. 23, 2021, accident in Waverly, Nebraska, a 39-year-old warehouse manager entered the cab of a burning dump truck to free its unconscious driver whose foot was caught …
Jessica Lea Embry, deceased, and Rayna Michele Montgomery
In a chaotic scene in the Atlantic Ocean off of Kure Beach, North Carolina, two sisters, 11 and 14, were pulled by a strong rip current to a point 110 …
Mickey Wilson
A 30-year-old skier was dangling from a Dillon, Colorado, ski lift chair after his backpack became tangled in the chair as he attempted to disembark from the lift during a …
A New Century of Heroes to be released July 1
The Hero Fund is proud to announce the July 1, 2023 release of A New Century of Heroes (280 pages • 978-1-4930-7096-1 • $39.95 • Hardback • Lyons Press) – …
Impulse 73: Board notes
In your last Impulse, we discussed two Canadian fishermen who made a dramatic rescue in the turbulent December waters off Newfoundland. Now I’d like to take you to a stretch …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Darby Bicking
Carnegie Hero Darby Bicking poses with Hero Fund Director of Operations Melissa Brock after Brock presented her the Carnegie Medal in a April 13 ceremony held at the Coatesville (Pennsylvania) …
Chad W. Chichester
A 52-year-old engineer of Midland, Michigan, responded to a burning all-terrain vehicle on April 3, 2022, in Sherman Township, Michigan. Passenger Karleigh M. Zmikly, 23, remained inside the ATV as …
Christopher K. Burkett, deceased
A 93-year-old woman, Shirley Treadwell, and her caretaker were inside an SUV that was stuck straddling a train track on Nov. 10, 2021, in Forsyth, Georgia. Christopher K. Burkett, 47, …
Emilyn Golden
A 15-year-old boy, who was autistic and nonverbal, drifted with the outgoing tide about 300 feet from a Burrard Inlet beach in West Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sept. 9, 2022. …
Gabriel Lucas Gardner, deceased
A father drowned June 26, 2020, saving his toddler daughter from the same fate. Kinzlee R. Gardner, 21 months, was wearing a life jacket in a kayak with her mother, …
Roberto Y. Longoria, deceased
Roberto Y. Longoria, a 42-year-old tanker technician of Phoenix, died Aug. 29, 2021, while attempting to save his 32-year-old co-worker from suffocation inside a chemical tanker trailer in Avondale, Arizona. …
Kevin Conklin
A local high school student was hospitalized after attempting the Aug. 4, 2020, water rescue of a 6-year-old boy who was playing in a flooded 5-foot ditch at a Bethlehem, …
James W. Musgrove, Jr.
When shots rang out at a June 16, 2022, church potluck in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, James W. Musgrove, Jr., did not hesitate to subdue the shooter, a 70-year-old man armed …