Jose M. Pichardo
A 97-year-old woman was saved Oct. 1, 2021, from her burning home thanks to a passerby who responded. Jose M. Pichardo, a 41-year-old car salesman in Nashua, New Hampshire, was …
Author: Jewels Phraner
Kortnie Balls
Kortnie Balls, a local 25-year-old delivery driver, on March 23, 2022, entered a burning Pocatello, Idaho, mobile home amid exploding oxygen tanks, dense black smoke that precluded visibility, and spreading …
Zachary Sjosward
Three men fishing on Sept. 13, 2022, in the Atlantic Ocean at a beach in Island Beach State Park in Seaside Park, New Jersey, encountered trouble when a rip current …
Nicholas L. Bostic
A passerby on July 11, 2022, suffered from smoke inhalation, first- and second-degree burns, and a serious laceration to his arm, after jumping from a second-story window holding a 6-year-old …
Paul Galotti
Sixty-one-year-old David Martinez, who uses a wheelchair, was trapped in his Easthampton, Massachusetts, burning apartment after his bedroom caught fire and blocked his exit. A neighbor, Paul Galotti, 38, environmental …
Terrance A. Dea, deceased
Terrance A. Dea, a 70-year-old retired sales manager of Louisville, drowned June 5, 2021, attempting to rescue an 18-year-old woman who was thrown from her jet ski into the Little …
Derek Winemiller
Derek Winemiller, a 38-year-old union carpenter from Kansas City, Missouri, was left paralyzed from the chest down after intervening in a Feb. 9, 2020, armed robbery at a neighborhood store. …
Hero’s rescue rings installed in southeastern Florida
Officials in Coral Springs, Florida, on Feb. 25, kicked off the installation of more than 70 rescue life rings near bodies of water in city parks in honor of Carnegie …
A supreme sacrifice: Man won Carnegie Medal for selfless heroism
By Jimmy Tomlin/ The High Point Enterprise Dec. 3—HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA — A modest grave marker at Oakwood Cemetery tells the day that Don R. Kirkman died — July …
Impulse 72: Board notes
Every Carnegie hero has earned the Carnegie Medal by making a choice that would define their life. Not an abstract decision, like “I like jazz music better than rock,” but …
Overheard: Impulse 72
I’m happy that I was able to get him out. To this day, I sometimes think about what I could have done differently. You still wish you could have done …
Friends Remembered: Charles S. Harris
Carnegie Hero Charles S. Harris, 81, died Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at his home in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Harris was a renowned Civil War historian and author, specifically known for finding …
Friends Remembered: Donna Cortese-Munday
Donna Cortese-Munday, 76, of Garineau, Quebec, died Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. She was the widow of Carnegie Hero Mario D. Cortese, and a beneficiary of the commission for 34 years. …
Friends Remembered: Melvin G. Kauffman
Melvin G. Kauffman, 91, of Pulaski, Pennsylvania, died Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Born Aug. 13, 1931, to Lewis A. and Florence Mayberry Kauffman, he lived his entire 91 years in …
Friends Remembered: Louis R. Zabinski
Louis R. Zabinski, 90, of East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, at Allegheny Valley Hospital in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. Born Oct. 3, 1932, in East Vandergrift, he was …
Friends Remembered: Michael D. Croft
Carnegie Hero Michael D. Croft, 77, of Cheektowaga, New York, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Croft was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1986 after he rescued an 84-year-old man from …
Friends Remembered: Joshua Stewart Wright
Carnegie Hero Joshua Stewart Wright, 42, of Dahlonega, Georgia, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Wright received the Carnegie Medal in 2018, after saving a 2-year-old girl from burning after the …
From the Archives: Heroes risk falling to their deaths in cliffside rescue
On Feb. 25, 1963, off the coast of Grand Manan Island in Canada’s New Brunswick province, Floyd D. Jones and his brother were fishing in a 15-foot motorboat when the …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 72
“True heroes think not of reward. They are inspired and think only of their fellows endangered; never of themselves.” — Andrew Carnegie biography
Alec Daviau
A 39-year-old university student entered the 42-degree Blanche River multiple times to rescue a 7-year-old girl who was being carried downstream. On May 2, 2021, Emilia I. Fontana fell from …