Frank P. Axiotes receives the Carnegie Medal during a presentation held on November 21, 2022, at the state capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. From left, Nebraska State Patrol Superintendent Col. John …
On August 22, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas, a 27-year-old police officer was chasing a 44-year-old man when the man tripped and fell. The officer struggled on the street with …
While attending a youth horse-riding camp on August 18, 2020, in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, an 8-year-old girl was in a grassy area encircled by chairs when a 95-pound English Mastiff dog …
On May 2, 2022, two boys, 7 and 8, were inside their Clarksville, Tennessee home when a fire broke out in the kitchen on the same floor as their bedroom. …
On June 5, 2022, a man came into contact with an energized railway charged with 600 volts of electricity. Anthony R. Perry, a 20-year-old store associate, was getting off a …
A sailboat carrying John L. McKenna capsized in Little Egg Harbor on June 21, 2021. McKenna, unable to reenter the sailboat, floated in the harbor until he arrived near a …
While house-sitting in Mill Bay, British Columbia, on January 26, 2022, Lisa Maria Fox, a 51-year-old self-employed worker, heard a crash outside that sent Kellee M. Brown’s truck into the …
An 18-year-old woman struggled to maintain a hold on the metal support post of a basketball goal after rapid-flowing water flooded a park in Columbia, Missouri, on June 25, 2021. …
A 62-year-old man was swimming in a bay off the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California, on June 22, 2022, when a Great White shark at least …
On the morning of March 11, 2021, a vehicle driven by a man entered the Sacramento River outside Walnut Grove, California. Driving nearby, Christopher B. Arias, a 39-year-old low voltage …
On a clear and frigid day in Lark Harbour, Newfoundland, John K. Parsons, 68, and Ralph Leo Joyce, 72, former cleaner, of Lark Harbour, were walking along a trail that …
Following an accident that caused his car to enter a retention pond, an 18-year-old man called out for help as he struggled in deep water in Sunrise, Florida, on April …
A 29-year-old oil company line leader from Advance, Indiana, was driving in Whitestown, Indiana, on December 5, 2020, when he noticed flames issuing from a second-floor bedroom window. Cody Hartman …
A 32-year-old preschool teacher was sleeping inside her Gregory, Michigan, apartment with her four children when flames broke out on Oct. 26, 2021. Waking to the sounds of the fire …
Carnegie Hero Brandon Bair, left, receives Carnegie Medal from Carnegie Hero Fund Commission member Arthur Scully at a presentation in Rexburg, Idaho, on Nov. 21, 2022. Bair and his family …
From left, Evangela Stanley, owner of People’s Choice Kitchen, Carnegie Hero Darnell J. Wilson, Rochester, New York, Mayor, Malik Evans, and Wilson’s girlfriend, Damaris Marshall, pose for a photograph …
Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, right, presents the Carnegie Medal posthumously awarded to Adam Layman Thomas, to his daughter, Ayla Thomas, during a ceremony held in Thomas’s honor at …
Carnegie Hero Ross C. Johnson, left, poses with U.S. Rep. John Rutherford in his Jacksonville office after Rutherford presented Johnson with the Carnegie Medal Sept. 6, 2022. In May 2020, …
This summer, nearly $33,000 was raised for a memorial scholarship in honor of Carnegie Hero Forrest L. Willey, leaving organizers hopeful about the future of the fund. On Oct. 5, 1966, …
Melissa Wade came to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in early September as the fund’s first-ever Director of Operations, bringing with her a wealth of non-profit experience. “I am thrilled …
