Brandon Bair
Steven W. Jenson, 25, remained pinned and severely injured in the driver’s seat of a semi-truck that, in a May 6, 2021, accident with a train in St. Anthony, Idaho, …
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Darnell J. Wilson
Restaurant owner Evangela Stanley, 53, was getting ready to lock her Rochester, New York, restaurant on the night of Dec. 23, 2019, when a 27-year-old gunman rushed into the business. …
Adam Layman Thomas, deceased
From a bicycle trail along a Louisville, Kentucky, road, a 36-year-old woman climbed over a railing and entered the swollen, swift-flowing Ohio River on Jan. 13, 2022. As the woman …
Andrew Parent and Roger Combs
A 72-year-old man was driving a pickup truck on June 21, 2021, when it left a Westmoreland, New York, highway, struck a utility pole, overturned onto its roof, and came …
Jacob M. Smith
On May 22, 2019, Jacob M. Smith, a 27-year-old real estate professional, escaped his burning Arlington, Washington, home through a second-floor bedroom window. After reaching safety, he learned that his …
Ross C. Johnson
A 13-year-old was carried 450 feet from shore by a rip current in the Atlantic Ocean off of Neptune Beach, Florida, on May 17, 2020. Rough conditions made it difficult …
Peter Rosengren
Newspaper executive Peter Rosengren, 42, of Batavia, Illinois, drowned March 28, 2021, after helping to rescue a 9-year-old boy from drowning in rough water of the Gulf of Mexico off …
Justin Leland Perry and Jason Hadfield
Zachary Johnson Haugen and Jake Vageli Watson
Two Arizona high school students entered turbulent water on July 3, 2020, to save 18-year-old Thanya Huerta and an 11-year-old girl, who were swept into the Pacific Ocean from a …
Daniel L. Cook and Brandon Melancon
A boom truck driver was trapped in the driver’s seat, after a June 9, 2020, accident in Derry, Louisiana, that left the truck overturned and on fire. Daniel L. Cook, …
Arthur R. Caballero, Sr.
Arthur R. Caballero, Sr., a 62-year-old painter of Fresno, California, was fishing June 9, 2020, in the Kings River near Sanger, California, when he saw a 7-year-old girl in another …
Layne Paul Gravois and Kim A. McGrady
Alerted on the beach that children were in distress in the April 8, 2021, turbulent waters of the Gulf of Mexico off of Miramar Beach, Florida, college student Layne Paul …
Patrick J. Driscoll
A 56-year-old pilot rushed to the scene of a plane that had, on Oct. 13, 2020, crash-landed on a New Carlisle, Ohio, grass runway, overturned, and caught fire. Couple Joyce …
Carl J. Robinette II
A 13-year-old boy was on a boat outing when he and several others left the boat to wade on a nearby sandbar. The boat drifted away from the sandbar and …
Christopher Lee Taylor
Christopher Lee Taylor, 36, forklift operator, of Greenville, Ohio, was driving through a local neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2020, when he saw flames on a nearby home’s second floor. Taylor …
Evan Daniel Townsley
As Evan Daniel Townsley drove through a Los Angeles neighborhood on July 23, 2021, he heard a woman screaming for help. The 66-year-old woman had been walking on a sidewalk …
Anthony Hogan
A violent accident on Aug. 12, 2020, in Fort Worth, Texas, left driver Michael A. Loya, Jr., 40, semi-conscious, badly injured, and pinned in a burning work truck containing flammable …
Marena L. Kouba
On July 19, 2020, a man and two children struggled in deep water in Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan. A member of her college swim team, Marena L. Kouba, 21, …
Ricky Lee Sneve
A 10-year-old boy drowned June 12, 2021, while saving his 5-year-old sister from the same fate in the Big Sioux River near Hudson, South Dakota. Ricky Lee Sneve of Hudson …
Magdalini Chormova
A 48-year-old woman was shot four times March 5, 2020, after she attacked a man demanding money from her brother at gunpoint inside his Charlotte, North Carolina, restaurant. As the …