Tanner Douglas Boslau
Tanner Douglas Boslau saved Teresa Samano from drowning in Bend, Ore., on Aug. 7, 2016. On the Deschutes River, Samano, 58, floated on an inner tube into an impoundment for …
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Vincent Santaniello and Harold Shaw
Vincent Santaniello and Harold Shaw saved Crystal G. Roup from a burning vehicle in Uhrichsville, Ohio, on Sept. 27, 2016. At night in a rural area, Roup, 32, was the …
Bobby Lynn Arnold
Bobby Lynn Arnold died helping to rescue Emily A. Nevil from drowning in Trinity, Texas, on June 29, 2016. Emily, 7, while boating with her family, fell from the bow …
Merrill O. Naylor
Merrill O. Naylor rescued Sheryl C. Lewis from a burning building in Stephens City, Va., on Nov. 4, 2015. In the evening, Lewis, 70, awoke in her bedroom inside her …
René Roy
René Roy saved Robert Mercier from a burning vehicle in Sherbrooke, Que., on Aug. 5, 2016. At night, Mercier, 78, remained inside the car he was driving after it had …
Brian G. Bergkamp
Brian G. Bergkamp died attempting to save Kristen L. Eck from drowning, Wichita, Kansas, July 9, 2016. On the high and fast-moving Arkansas River, Eck, 26, was in a kayak …
John David Smith
John David Smith saved Kaarisa B. Karley from burning, Snoqualmie, Washington, July 18, 2016. Karley, 70, was slumped over in the front seats of her coupe after an interstate highway …
Robbie Goering-Jensen
Robbie Goering-Jensen saved Gregory L. and Lula M. Damper from burning, Omaha, Nebraska, December 20, 2015. Gregory, 57, was in a wheelchair in the living room of his family’s one-story …
Robert Conant
Robert Conant helped to save Daniel Fredericks from falling, Oakville, Ontario, April 18, 2015. Fredericks, 23, slid about 20 feet down the steep wall of a ravine at a provincial …
Scott B. Keller
Scott B. Keller saved Yusuf Salem from burning, Dearborn Heights, Michigan, July 29, 2016. Yusuf, 7, was on the second floor of his family’s two-story townhouse after a fire broke …
David Blauzvern, Gary J. Messina, and John J. Green III
David Blauzvern, Gary J. Messina, and John J. Green III saved a man from drowning, New York City, New York, June 1, 2016. The man was bobbing in the East …
Louis Daniel Scharold
Louis Daniel Scharold saved Brian C. Ashcraft from burning, Grants Lick, Kentucky, April 25, 2016. Ashcraft, 48, was the driver of a refuse truck that was struck nearly head on …
Victor M. Ortiz
Victor M. Ortiz saved a man from being struck by a train, Secaucus, New Jersey, August 26, 2016. The man went to a point between the rails of a track …
Dennis Joseph Michel
Dennis Joseph Michel died assisting in an attempt to save Jacob B. Seeman from drowning, Camdenton, Missouri, August 1, 2016. Seeman, 40, jumped from a dock in the Niangua Arm …
Stephanie Melinda Marino
Stephanie Melinda Marino saved Anthony H. Ortiz from being struck by a train, Manteca, California, June 8, 2016. Ortiz, 27, was the passenger in a sport utility vehicle that left …
Robert Sunkel and Linda Nolan
Robert Sunkel and Linda Nolan rescued Cheryle D. Coons from burning, Vero Beach, Florida, March 23, 2016. Coons, 58, was the driver of a car that, at a rural …
Brett Bailes, C. Fredric Holbeck, and Dennis Wilson
Brett Bailes, C. Fredric Holbeck, and Dennis Wilson saved Nathaniel A. Wissink from burning, Omaha, Nebraska, February 26, 2016. Wissink, 28, was unconscious and trapped in the front passenger seat …
Kenneth R. Atkinson
Kenneth R. Atkinson died rescuing Elizabeth L. Lyons from assault, Centennial, Colorado, April 4, 2016. Lyons, 44, was shot by her husband after she fled through the front door of …
Sean C. Randles
Sean C. Randles died attempting to save Melanie L. Kushnir from falling, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 28, 2016. Kushnir, 42, was hiking down a sandstone mountain at Red Rock National …
Joseph B. Hamblin
Joseph B. Hamblin rescued a woman from a runaway vehicle, St. George, Utah, March 31, 2016. The woman was in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck that was moving …