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Author: Colin Cavada

Carnegie Medal presentation to Frank P. Axiotes

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Mark Anthony Gonzales

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Darby Bicking

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Robert Z. Fortner

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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. …

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Anthony R. Perry

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Chad Ammerman

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Lisa Maria Fox

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Joseph Diener and Dominic Viet

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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. …

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Paul W. Bandy, Aimee Johns, and Heath Braddock

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Christopher B. Arias

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Ralph Leo Joyce

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Aden Spencer Perry, deceased

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Cody Hartman

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Mikala Vish

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Brandon Bair

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Darnell J. Wilson

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  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 …

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Carnegie Medal presentation in honor of Adam Layman Thomas

Adam Layman Thomas

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Ross C. Johnson

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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, …

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Local Carnegie hero scholarship fund gets boost this summer

Forrest L. Willey

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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, …

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Behind the Scenes: Hero Fund welcomes director of operations with passion, purpose, and proficiency

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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