March 2018 edition of imPULSE
The March 2018 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as a updates on the goings …
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Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
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December 2017 edition of imPULSE
The December 2017 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as updates on several awardees and …
September 2017 edition of imPULSE
The September 2017 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as updates on several awardees, including …
March 2017 edition of imPULSE
The March 2017 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as a review of the Commission’s …
December 2016 edition of imPULSE
The December 2016 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as a look back at the Commission’s …
Michael H. Peddicord and Donald E. Lee, Sr.
Denton, Maryland Michael H. Peddicord and Donald E. Lee, Sr., helped to save Norma L. Towers from burning, Denton, Maryland, October 24, 2014. Towers, 87, was in a first-floor bedroom of …
June 2016 edition of imPULSE
The June 2016 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as the announcement of the Commission’s new …
March 2016 edition of imPULSE
The March 2016 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as stories reviewing the Commission’s last year …
Carnegie Medal presented to Charles E. Wyant
Michael L. Wiant, who was rescued from a burning dump truck by Carnegie Hero Charles E. Wyant, presented the Carnegie Medal to Wyant at a presentation held at 12:30 p.m. …
December 2015 edition of imPULSE
The December 2015 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as stories detailing one family’s response …
Carnegie Awardee Ronald LaRue posthumously honored
Carnegie awardee Ronald LaRue was one of 22 individuals recently named as a Carnegie Hero in the Commission’s third award announcement of 2015. LaRue died attempting to save his 5-year-old grandson, …
Medal presentation from one awardee to another
A Carnegie Medal presentation was held Aug. 16 in Eagan, Minn., in which Ryan Thomas Nelson received the award from Carnegie Medal awardee John P. Williams of LaCrosse, Wis., one of the …
Carnegie Medal awardee George Russell Blair recalls rescue
In a letter to his daughter 67 years later, Carnegie Medal awardee George Russell Blair recalled his dramatic rescue of a 9-year-old boy from the icy waters of Cazenovia Lake …
Carnegie Medal awardee Anthony Montville memorial receives marker
A bronze medallion cast in the likeness of the Carnegie Medal has been affixed to the memorial marking the grave of Carnegie Medal awardee Anthony Montville in Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, …
Board Notes: A broadened context sharpens the thinking
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission imPULSE, which you are reading at this very moment, has had an interesting effect on the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Before the …
Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown saves 14 year old
Thumbs Up Joshua A. Peterson, right, of Brookings, Ore., owes his life to Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown, a deputy with the Curry County, Ore., Sheriff’s Department. On June 2 last …
Family’s two Carnegie Medal awardees shared bonds of bravery and selflessness
By Roberta Scholz, Edmonds, Wash. On Jan. 20, 2014, our son, Philip Erich Scholz, 35, died tragically while attempting to rescue a man who was trying to commit suicide by …
Schaumburg teens honored at Village Meeting
Four recently awarded heroes were honored in front of family members and community leaders at the Schaumburg, Ill., April 14 Village Meeting. Tyler T. Fredrickson, 15, Matthew I. Grammas, 15, Graham W. Fath, 12, …
Natural gas leak leads to massive explosion, dramatic rescue by Paul W. Mongiello
Returning home from work on February 19, 2013, Paul W. Mongiello, a 57-year-old insurance executive from Overland Park, Kan., was stopped in traffic in Kansas City, Mo., when a massive …
Connecticut man rescues young girl from burning apartment
Frederick J. Levesque, Jr., 52, a retired corrections administrator from Stafford Springs, Conn., rescued Kerra R. Colgan, 7, from her family’s burning apartment in Somers, Conn., on Dec. 4, 2013. …