Category: awardees

David Duncan saved a police officer from assault

Eric Martin and Patrick Nolan McCarty saved two women from drowning.

Marcus L. Eliason saved his friend from a burning vehicle

Donald Michael Boles died while attempting to rescue Zachary K. and Zoe A. Crumb from drowning

Mark Oscar Tuura saved an unidentified man from drowning

Eugene Stamsta helped to save Anne M. Nerenhausen, 75, from drowning

John Thomas Prokop helped to rescue a police officer from assault

Frank Williams, Jr., died helping to rescue Honorio Lopez, 25, from drowning

Jennifer E. Emo rescued Paisley S. Ervin from burning, O’Fallon, Missouri, August 26, 2017. Paisley, 2, was in the backseat area of a sedan traveling on an interstate highway when …

Sean Zacharey Thayne died attempting to save London Razo and Brenda N. De Dios from drowning, Provo, Utah, May 29, 2017. London, 4, and her mother, De Dios, 34, entered …

John E. Meffert saved Francis X. Pisano from burning, Irvine, California, June 30, 2017. Pisano, 62, was in a twin-engine plane that had taken off from a nearby airport when …

Jay Agli died attempting to save Kishana M. Rivera from drowning, Haddam, Connecticut, June 11, 2017. Rivera, 19, and a girl were struggling to swim back to a submerged sandbar …

John Hazelrigg and Russell D. Phippen rescued Revath Than from drowning, Lowell, Massachusetts, January 3, 2018. At night, Than, 24, clung to a rock in the Merrimack River and called …

Liam Bernard helped to save Ralph E. Chrisman from burning, Melford, Nova Scotia, September 16, 2016. Chrisman, 68, was the driver of a pickup truck that, following a rural highway …

Delbert G. Blare died attempting to save Robert E. Shepard, Jr., from drowning, Melbourne Beach, Florida, October 14, 2017. Shepard, 61, was swimming in the Atlantic Ocean when a rip …

Ana Maria Ramirez rescued Jose J. Ramos from attacking dogs, Turlock, California, April 18, 2017. Jose, 12, was walking his family’s dog on a leash in a suburban neighborhood when …

Andrew William Miller rescued John P. Rowley III from assault, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2017. Rowley, 62, exited a train in a subway station and walked toward an exit when …

Jason A. Sigelow and Philip Russell Orzech helped to save Jose Cruz-Gonzalez from drowning, Irondequoit, New York, August 19, 2017, Sigelow drowning as a result of his actions. Jose, 9, …

Blake Keith Huff and Benjamin M. Hawkins rescued Mary Jo Tester from burning, Kalkaska, Michigan, February 22, 2017. Tester, 50, a paraplegic, was in her home’s living room when fire …

Michael Eugene Chestnut saved John J. Keuper III, Chance E. Augenstein, and Maxwell R. Millbourn, from burning, Foster, Kentucky, August 24, 2017. Sixteen-year-olds John, Chance, and Maxwell were seat-belted inside …