Neil Andrew Garrett
An unconscious, 10-year-old girl was floating in the Pacific Ocean about 375 feet from shore off the coast of San Diego on May 14, 2020. The 62-degree water was turbulent …
Author: Jewels Phraner
Terrell Miller, Sr.
Despite not knowing how to swim, Terrell Miller, Sr., 33, a marine industrial tank cleaner, of Houma, Louisiana, entered the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, Louisiana, on June 5, …
Kristoff Jaleel Murray
A 37-year-old man and his 3-year-old son were wading on a sandy shelf off an Apollo Beach, Florida, beach on June 11, 2021, when a strong tidal current carried them …
Sean P. Conaboy
Kelli A. Daley, 54, was standing on a subway platform in New York City, on May 19, 2021, waiting for a train home when a 22-year-old man with a knife …
Josef Gluck
A 71-year-old man was mortally wounded after a man armed with a machete entered a home containing 70 people and swung it indiscriminately, slashing anyone near him. Those in the …
Kenneth Brian McCarter
A 73-year-old woman, Carol S. DeLillo, was tending her Okatie, South Carolina, backyard on the evening of July 3, 2020, near the bank of an 8-foot-deep pond when an alligator, …
Gwendolyn Theus
A 64-year-old caregiver died trying to save her charge – a 71-year-old paraplegic woman – after a fire broke out in the woman’s Delhi, Louisiana, home on Nov. 23, 2020. …
Jonathan Bauer
A May 2, 2021, multi-vehicle accident on an Ocean City, Maryland, bridge spanning Assawoman Bay ejected a toddler from her family’s pickup truck, causing her to land in the cold …
Randy Wilkinson, Jr.
Randy Wilkinson, Jr., was visiting a friend on Oct. 7, 2019, when he heard screaming from the nearby Old Brazos River near Freeport, Texas. An 11-year-old boy with a severely …
Shane Morrison
A 15-year-old boy was atop a rocky breakwater with friends on June 24, 2020, when he noticed a younger boy drifting into deeper water in Lake Erie off of Mentor, …
Jason J. Hahn
Jason J. Hahn, a 48-year-old business owner of Mason City, Iowa, stopped at the scene of an overturned pickup truck on April 5, 2021, off a rural Mason City road. …
D’Angelo Cordero Jenkins and Michael Byers
An Oct. 3, 2020, fishing outing in Huntersville, North Carolina, turned tragic after a 2-year-old boy entered the swift-flowing Catawba River. With the boy was his mother and her partner, …
Corey A. Purinton
In an Aug. 23, 2020, single-vehicle accident, a sedan left a Winter Garden, Florida, highway, struck a fence, rolled several times, and came to rest on its roof at an …
Matthew Ryan Kihlstrand, Austin Michael Stahly, and Cameron Meade
A June 19, 2020, family fun day on St. Joseph River near Sodus, Michigan, turned deadly when an 8-year-old boy struggled to swim in swift current near where his boat …
60 Minutes feature on Carnegie Heroes
On Nov. 7, 2021, CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a segment about Carnegie Heroes — focusing on three awardees: TerryAnn E. Thomas, Peter F. Pontzer, and David Michael McCartney, as well …
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John Miner
In another police rescue, Sheriff’s Deputy John Miner, 39, of Phillipsburg, Kansas, pulled off a rural highway in Long Island, Kansas, to offer aid to two families that had pulled …
Eric C. Keys
A 37-year-old woman was unconscious and trapped inside her burning SUV after it left a highway and crashed into a tree on March 13, 2019, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. A …
Christian W. Smith
Christian W. Smith, 27, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, had just finished a dog training session on June 1, 2020, on a pedestrian bridge that spanned the Grand River near Grand …
Ernest Beauparland and Ronald Rock
On the morning of Feb. 3, 2020, an 83-year-old man who used a wheelchair was trapped on the second story of a burning building after flames broke out on the …