Kiera Vera Larsen
Kiera Vera Larsen died saving Emmah Gusich from being struck by a runaway vehicle, El Cajon, California, February 22, 2016. Emmah, 2, was playing on a sloped residential driveway behind …
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Calvin Bradley Stein
Calvin Bradley Stein saved Rylee Vilneff from being struck by runaway ponies, Tweed, Ontario, July 9, 2016. Rylee, 3, was standing inside the track at a fairground when a team …
Dennis D. Swenson
Dennis D. Swenson died attempting to save Dorothy H. Swenson from burning, Cornucopia, Wisconsin, May 1, 2015. At night, Dorothy, 95, was inside the one-story house she shared with her …
Ivan R. Romero, Jr.
Ivan R. Romero, Jr., saved Leanne M. Cameron from burning, West Sacramento, California, July 21, 2015. Semiconscious, Cameron, 30, remained in the driver’s seat of her sedan after an interstate …
Lori Doppelheuer Kearney
Lori Doppelheuer Kearney died attempting to save Christopher I. Kearney and Kieran C. and Eagan S. Hargis from burning, Maysville, Kentucky, October 20, 2015. At night, Christopher, 10, and his …
Shei’Londa S. Brooks
Shei’Londa S. Brooks helped to rescue Austin I. Stoney from burning, Houston, Texas, February 29, 2016. Stoney, 39, was the driver of a compact sport utility vehicle that, in a …
Cody Fields and Brian Nesbitt
Cody Fields and Brian Nesbitt rescued Rashad X. Isreal from burning, Silver Spring, Maryland, September 1, 2015. Isreal, 33, was unconscious in the driver’s seat of a burning car …
Clark Whitecalf
Clark Whitecalf rescued Jolei D. A. Farness from burning, Gallivan, Saskatchewan, August 31, 2015. At night, Farness, 18, was asleep in the living room of her family’s one-story house after …
R. Wayne Trivette and Timothy A. Holtz II
William E. Ramirez
William E. Ramirez rescued Rosny Obas from assault, Miami, Florida, April 14, 2015. Obas, 28, a police officer, initiated a traffic stop of a male suspect who was driving a …
Natalie Renee Martin
Natalie Renee Martin saved Jenna J. Martin and died after attempting to save Benjamin L. Martin and Carter J. Maki from burning, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, January 26, 2016. At night, …
Ryan P. Rollinger
Ryan P. Rollinger rescued Kevin A. Lein from assault, Harrisburg, South Dakota, September 30, 2015. Lein, 56, a high school principal, was in his office when a male student, 16, …
Nathan Ryan Reynolds
Peter F. Pontzer and Duncan O. C. Harris
Peter F. Pontzer and Duncan O. C. Harris saved a boy from drowning, Emerald Isle, North Carolina, July 28, 2015. While swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, a 13-year-old boy was …
Kenneth F. Smith
Kenneth F. Smith rescued James A. Daisey from burning, Lincoln, Delaware, May 20, 2014. Daisey, 65, was driving a dump truck on a two-lane highway when a speeding car entered …
Robert Seth Ludington, Kenya D. Betty, and Jacob D. Kirinovic
Robert Seth Ludington, Kenya D. Betty, and Jacob D. Kirinovic saved Dorothy J. Bell from burning, Hale, Michigan, August 8, 2014. Bell, 79, was in the kitchen of her one-story …
Leyton Page
Leyton Page helped to save Jacob W. Morris and John W. Morgan from drowning, Bush, Louisiana, March 28, 2015. Jacob, 8, and his brother, John, 6, were thrown into the …
Kevin Scott Johnson II
Kevin Scott Johnson II died attempting to save Willa M. Pennington from drowning, Flat Gap, Kentucky, July 13, 2015. Pennington, 74, was inside her mobile home as severe thunderstorms moved …
Isbel Jimenez
Isbel Jimenez saved Jeannette Marshall from burning, Breckenridge, Texas, September 16, 2015. Marshall, 59, was in her mobile home at night after a fire broke out in its living room. …
Keoni Bowthorpe
Keoni Bowthorpe rescued Colin W. Cook from a shark attack, Haleiwa, Hawaii, October 9, 2015. Cook, 25, was surfing in the Pacific Ocean at a point about 600 feet from …