Allen Robert Linder
Thirty-year-old Ashley N. Friedman collapsed while cleaning the inside of the tank of a tanker trailer, which contained residual chemicals on Feb. 20, 2020, in Cleveland. Her mother, who worked …
Category: awardees
Erich M. Funccius
Erich M. Funccius, a 32-year-old security officer, was grilling a steak on Oct. 1, 2020, on the porch of his home in Kingston, New York, when a nearby car struck …
Scott McFarland
It was close to midnight on Dec. 13, 2019, when 47-year-old ironworker Scott McFarland heard a car violently crash into a tree in the backyard of his Beaverton, Michigan, home. …
Draven M. Starr-Howell
A 14-year-old floating on an inner tube on Lake Ontario on July 2, 2020, was being carried away from shore, and, panicking, she left the inner tube and entered the …
Hiedi Johnston
A 49-year-old stay-at-home mom acted without hesitation after she saw a pickup truck speed into Humboldt Bay off Eureka, California, in the afternoon of Jan. 2, 2021. The truck entered …
David J. Brown
Two men, ages 34 and 35, started to struggle in a swimming area of the Gull River at a cabin resort in East Gull Lake, Minnesota, after they entered the …
Jamey Ruth Klassen
Sixteen-year-old Jamey Ruth Klassen of Guelph, Ontario, entered waters of the Georgian Bay, off of Lake Huron, on July 26, 2020, after she overheard others on the bank near Collingwood, …
Marc F. Romano
On a boat nearby, 26-year-old deckhand Marc F. Romano, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, immediately jumped into the Pacific Ocean after hearing a swimmer screaming for help off the coast of …
Scott D. Morrison
On Aug. 13, 2019, from inside his Rescue, California, home, Carnegie Hero Scott D. Morrison heard a sedan collide with a boulder and tree about a quarter-mile away. The vehicle …
Keawe Michael Pestana
Three young children, ages 10, 6, and 3, were canoeing with their father April 26, 2019, in the Salmon River near Riggins, Idaho, when the canoe tipped and the children …
Lucas Y. Silverio Mendoza
After smoke filled his Bronx, New York, sixteen-story apartment building in the early hours of June 9, 2019, 19-year-old student Lucas Y. Silverio Mendoza and his family descended the building’s …
Eric Andrew Staten, Mark Pierce, and Nathan Hammond
A natural gas explosion on Feb. 15, 2019, decimated a Heber City, Utah, vacation home and trapped 37-year-old Lori R. Walker in the basement, critically injured, under a collapsed ceiling …
Renata Bandel
Two 17-year-old girls struggled in Lake Manitoba near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, during a June 3, 2020, outing in which they left drifting inflatables in an attempt to swim back …
D. Roderick Boothe
In the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of St. Augustine Beach, Florida, Kelly A. Wood, 42, was with two young teens on May 23, 2020, when she was carried away …
Ryan Keith Cox
A disgruntled employee opened fire in a city government building in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on May 31, 2019, after killing two men outside. As the shooter moved throughout the offices …
Antonio Morgan
A July 28, 2020, highway accident left 23-year-old motorist, Keilen Robinson, unresponsive inside his vehicle with the driver’s side against the highway’s center median in St. Louis County, Missouri. …
Christine L. Beheler, Mark A. Krempasky, and Melinda J. Wilms
Three Carnegie heroes will be honored for a July 29, 2019, heroic water rescue in Mosquito Creek Lake near Cortland, Ohio. A 12-year-old boy was with five other children playing …
Ryan D.A. Horne
After a May 14, 2019, accident in which her SUV left the road and crashed into woods in Birchdale, Minnesota, 74-year-old driver Janet F. Mart was trapped inside the car …
Steven T. Boesl
Despite knowing the dangers of silos and the propensity for the buildup of suffocating gases inside them, Steven T. Boesl, a 49-year-old farmer of Brandon, Minnesota, immediately entered the top …
Lester Robert Taber, Jr.
A 77-year-old man was spending time in the reading room of a Winchester, Massachusetts, library on Feb. 24, 2018, when a 23-year-old man began stabbing a woman with a 10-inch …