Aberdeen (S.D.) City Council recognized city public works employee Jameson Bartscher of Aberdeen at a council meeting in late January 2017. Bartscher was awarded the Carnegie Medal last September for his role in the rescue of occupants of a burning sport utility vehicle in Summit, S.D., on June 9, 2015. Driving upon the scene, Bartscher, then 30, used a fire extinguisher against the flames and then broke out a side window with it. He and another man then removed the car’s occupants, who included a 2-month-old infant. Read more.
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