Category: awardees

Frank B. Conselman saved a 32-year-old man and helped to save Robert S. Marchand from drowning in Pensacola Beach, Fla., on July 26, 2016. Marchand, 36, and the 32-year-old man …

Noah Hill King saved Jonathon A. Chiodo from a burning vehicle in Panama City, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2016. Chiodo, 23, was the driver of a sport utility vehicle that …

Thomas M. Petruszak died attempting to save Adam M. Woodruff from drowning in Gladstone, Mich., on  Sept. 3, 2016. Woodruff, 37, was fishing from a motorboat in a Lake Michigan …

Davis Ilan Zinsenheim died attempting to save Joseph H. Hopkins from falling in Lake Toxaway, N.C., on May 10, 2016. While hiking in a mountainous area during the evening, Hopkins, …

Austin Craig Welch died attempting to save Crystal E. Droz from drowning in Bartow, Fla., on Sept. 3, 2016. Crystal, 11, was fishing in a river from a small dock …

Terryann E. Thomas rescued Tammy K. Walter from assault in Topeka, Kan., on July 10, 2015. Walter, 50, was punched by a man in a public waiting room of a …

Demetrius T. Johnson, Sr., died attempting to save Demetrius T. Johnson, Jr., from a burning building in Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 19, 2016. Demetrius, 3, was in a bedroom of …

Courtney Baynes Dorsey died attempting to save Coey D. Dorsey from drowning in Pawleys Island, S.C. on July 3, 2016. Coey, 13, was wading in the Atlantic Ocean when he …

Jason Allen Williams rescued Michael J. Bridges from a burning vehicle in Apopka, Fla. on Aug. 4, 2016. Bridges, 61, was the driver of a grapple truck that was in …

Robin Ireland rescued a woman from assault in Plymouth, Mass. on July 14, 2016. In the afternoon, a 39-year-old woman was jogging alone on a wooded trail at a municipal …

David E. Hammond saved Stephanie Wright from a burning building in Gulf Breeze, Fla., on July 28, 2016. At night, Wright, 47, who used a wheelchair, was in her bedroom …

Michael Lumahang died helping to save and Jesse T. Haw helped to save a 12-year-old boy from drowning in Ottawa, Ont., on Aug. 23, 2014. The boy was fishing on …

Kevin D. Little, Jr., died attempting to save Tae’Najah Morgan from a burning building in Milwaukee on Oct. 20, 2015. Tae’Najah, 2, was in a bedroom on the second floor …

John Paul Hollyfield saved Ashley S. Gruwell from being struck by a falling tree limb in Accokeek, Md., on July 9, 2015. During a cookout on the wooded Moyaone Reserve, …

Richard William Dorrity saved Clyde D. Willoughby from a burning vehicle in Livingston, Calif., on April 19, 2016. Willoughby, 19, was the front seat passenger in a pickup truck that …

James O. Vernon saved 17 children and four women from assault in Morton, Ill., on Oct. 13, 2015. The children and women were in a conference room of a public …

Jamie Alan Hyatt died attempting to rescue David D. Syring from suffocation in Granite Falls, Minn., on Jan. 7, 2016. Syring, 34, was working on a farm inside a tanker-trailer …

Nathan Michael Stieg and Jayden Charles Concha helped to rescue Edward W. Shypkoski and attempted to help rescue Frederick J. Ewoniuk from drowning in Mandaree, N.D. on Feb. 20, 2016. …

Kevin L. Heselton rescued Marcy L. Andrews from assault in San Rafael, Calif., on June 18, 2016. Andrews was in her fenced-in backyard when a man entered the yard and …