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 …
Author: Jewels Phraner
Evan Patrick Ishima and Gabriel Cedrik Saechao
Two rescuers died while trying to save another man who, on May 28, 2020, had entered the North Fork Cosumnes River near a waterfall and submerged into an underwater chamber. …
Sivad H. Johnson
An off-duty firefighter entered the Detroit River Aug. 21, 2020, to save three children who were drowning near Detroit. Sivad H. Johnson, 49, of Detroit, was with his daughter when …
Alan R. Cote and Stephen P. Carkhuff
Neighbors who heard a late-night crash outside their Auburn, New Hampshire, homes, rushed to the scene. On Oct. 23, 2019, the car, containing Cohen D. Bergeron, 23, and Fallon R. …
John D. Colter
After hearing screams and shots fired from inside his daughter’s home, John D. Colter, a 66-year-old pharmacist of Fenton, Missouri, ran inside the home and tackled his daughter’s estranged husband, …
Edgar F. Moreno Alba
High schooler Edgar F. Moreno Alba, 17, of Aguascalientes, Mexico, drowned June 28, 2020, after assisting a younger boy who was struggling in Lake Camanche near Valley Springs, California. The …
Jean-Paul LaPierre
At 5:40 a.m. before the Oct. 13, 2019, Chicago Marathon, a man armed with a loaded handgun was robbing passengers on a crowded train headed for downtown. A passenger at …
Allen Robert Linder
Thirty-year-old Ashley N. Friedman collapsed while cleaning the inside of the tank of a tanker trailer, which contained residual chemicals on Feb. 20, 2020, in Cleveland. Her mother, who worked …
Erich M. Funccius
Erich M. Funccius, a 32-year-old security officer, was grilling a steak on Oct. 1, 2020, on the porch of his home in Kingston, New York, when a nearby car struck …
Scott McFarland
It was close to midnight on Dec. 13, 2019, when 47-year-old ironworker Scott McFarland heard a car violently crash into a tree in the backyard of his Beaverton, Michigan, home. …
Draven M. Starr-Howell
A 14-year-old floating on an inner tube on Lake Ontario on July 2, 2020, was being carried away from shore, and, panicking, she left the inner tube and entered the …
Hiedi Johnston
A 49-year-old stay-at-home mom acted without hesitation after she saw a pickup truck speed into Humboldt Bay off Eureka, California, in the afternoon of Jan. 2, 2021. The truck entered …
Steven T. Boesl
Despite knowing the dangers of silos and the propensity for the buildup of suffocating gases inside them, Steven T. Boesl, a 49-year-old farmer of Brandon, Minnesota, immediately entered the top …
Brave of Heart Fund draws support from Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
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2019-2020 Hero Fund biennial report available online
The 2019-2020 Hero Fund biennial report is available online. The report contains accounts of the 140 heroic acts awarded during the past two years including the extraordinary actions of 23 …
Lester Robert Taber, Jr.
A 77-year-old man was spending time in the reading room of a Winchester, Massachusetts, library on Feb. 24, 2018, when a 23-year-old man began stabbing a woman with a 10-inch …
Rafael A. Rodriguez
On June 1, 2020, a Nevada state trooper risked his life to help save a woman from taking her own on an overpass over an interstate in Henderson, Nevada. The …
Kinzo Heath Mihara
After a June 23, 2020, helicopter crash in a Rathdrum, Idaho, field, 42-year-old attorney Kinzo Heath Mihara, of Hauser, Idaho, ran to the scene. By then, one of the two …
Jonathan Wiese
A San Diego police officer used a dog leash to rappel down a 30-foot cliff and then entered the Pacific Ocean to save a man and his two daughters from …
Lyle Berglund and Bradley Jay Berglund
Brothers Lyle Berglund (right) and Bradley Jay Berglund (left) rescued two men from a burning plane after it crash- landed on June 25, 2020, in a Centerville, Utah, pasture and …