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Home remodeler Philip L. Hall, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M., was inside his apartment April 29, 2018, when he heard his neighbor scream for help and saw her 2-year-old great grandson, …

Arriving after a car crashed into Belleville’s Passaic River on March 4, 2019, railroad signal maintainer Michael Benjamin James, 36, of Belleville, N.J., stopped at the scene and entered the …

A retired construction consultant, 68-year-old Julius A. Ortenzo, of Prescott, Ariz., was inside a car on a remote highway in Ash Fork, Ariz., when he witnessed an SUV on fire …

After arriving at the scene of a burning Sturgis, S.D., house May 12, 2018, and learning that 47-year-old Jason R. McKee was still inside, police Officer Dylan M. Goetsch, 27, …

A father died attempting to save his daughter from their burning home Nov. 20, 2018, in Lubbock, Texas. David S. Turner, Sr., a 70-year-old retired parole officer, entered his burning …

A 30-year-old pizza delivery driver was returning to the pizzeria July 3, 2018, when he saw an overturned SUV off a two-lane highway in South Barrington, Ill. Smoke was issuing …

Police officer Sean R. Dias, 37, was first on the scene of a burning home Nov. 19, 2017, in Braintree, Mass. Dias located a 69-year-old man sitting in a wheelchair …

Retired laborer Steven W. Fitzpatrick, of Marysville, Wash., responded to his neighbor’s burning mobile home on April 18, 2018. With fire extinguishers, Fitzpatrick entered the home’s living room through the …

During heavy rain, motorist Daniel E. Samis, 67, was stranded in his car on a flooded section of road Aug. 31, 2018, in Bel Air, Md. Driving nearby, 31-year-old Kyle …

On March 4, 2018, Kote Mhitari, 54, of Sandy, Utah, attempted to rescue his adult son, Georgi Davidov, 28, from drowning in the Pacific Ocean, while the family was vacationing …

Golf professional Darren M. Smith, 31, of Vero Beach, Fla., saved a 17-year-old girl from burning after she was trapped inside an overturned sport utility vehicle following a nighttime highway …

The late David Covington, 72, of Rockingham, N.C., intervened as two dogs attacked a 6-year-old girl who had just gotten off her school bus Jan. 9, 2019, in Rockingham. Two …

On Sept. 5, 2018, in Thornton, police Officer J. Ryan Thornton, 41, responded to the scene of a mobile home fire. Upon arrival, he kicked open the door of the …

Carnegie Hero Jason P. Maxwell, a 43-year-old vessel operations manager of Maple Valley, Wash., on Aug. 13, 2018, entered deep, cold water at a Seattle dock to save a crewman …

It was a late Sunday night when Truman State University student Jordan Scott Lambay, now of Okinawa, Japan, became alerted to a June 29, 2018, attack occurring outside his Kirksville, …

Off-duty Clinton Police Officer Phillip H. DiLuca, 24, entered a burning mobile home, searched until finding the home’s occupant, and guided him from the structure on June 13, 2017 in …

Bus passenger Nathan Scott Wanhala of Santa Cruz, Calif. rescued a woman, 25, and her toddler daughter, 3, from assault aboard the interstate bus on March 5, 2018, in Visalia, …

Rebecka Blackburn and Sommer Marie King, both of Leduc, Alta., on June 20, 2018, rescued a man who was struggling to stay afloat in the middle of the North Saskatchewan …

After a July 30, 2018, accident near Olympia, Wash., 29-year-old administrative assistant Heather Zabrowski of Olympia responded to a burning sport utility vehicle that had come to rest in a …

Nineteen-year-old Mercedes C. Ramos was trapped inside a burning sport utility vehicle after an April 20, 2018, accident in which the front of her vehicle struck and became wedged beneath …