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 …
Author: Jewels Phraner
Brave of Heart Fund draws support from Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
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2019-2020 Hero Fund biennial report available online
The 2019-2020 Hero Fund biennial report is available online. The report contains accounts of the 140 heroic acts awarded during the past two years including the extraordinary actions of 23 …
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 …
Rafael A. Rodriguez
On June 1, 2020, a Nevada state trooper risked his life to help save a woman from taking her own on an overpass over an interstate in Henderson, Nevada. The …
Kinzo Heath Mihara
After a June 23, 2020, helicopter crash in a Rathdrum, Idaho, field, 42-year-old attorney Kinzo Heath Mihara, of Hauser, Idaho, ran to the scene. By then, one of the two …
Jonathan Wiese
A San Diego police officer used a dog leash to rappel down a 30-foot cliff and then entered the Pacific Ocean to save a man and his two daughters from …
Lyle Berglund and Bradley Jay Berglund
Brothers Lyle Berglund (right) and Bradley Jay Berglund (left) rescued two men from a burning plane after it crash- landed on June 25, 2020, in a Centerville, Utah, pasture and …
Mark S. McAuliff
Despite being a poor swimmer, 64-year-old Mark S. McAuliff immediately entered the Atlantic Ocean after being alerted to a 16-year-old girl who was struggling to return to shore on Aug. …
Shawn H. Turner
A 34-year-old woman was driving on a Boca Raton, Florida, road on Feb. 23, 2020, when she suffered a medical emergency and passed out. Her vehicle veered off the road …
Jonathan L. Goldfarb and Matthew Goldfarb
Two brothers entered the frigid Dec. 22, 2019, waters of Lake Mohegan near Fairfield, Connecticut, in 2019 to save a 24-year-old man who had entered the lake to retrieve a …
John A. Franco
Upon hearing screaming on May 22, 2020, outside his Willington, Connecticut, home, John A. Franco, 80, approached a 23-year-old man who was standing over a 62-year-old man on the ground …
Michael Robert Keyser
Michael Robert Keyser, who received the Carnegie Medal 30 years earlier for saving a motorist from being electrocuted after a 1990 single-vehicle accident, will posthumously receive a second Carnegie Medal …
Jonathan A. Hudash
A Williamson County, Texas, sheriff’s deputy went above and beyond his duties on April 15, 2020, when he partially entered a burning van to remove a 22-year-old passenger. Jonathan A. …
Christian Alexander Burgos
Despite rescue efforts by a crowd of people, 17-year-old Christian Alexander Burgos drowned Sept. 30, 2019, after saving a 9-year-old boy and returning to rough water to save the boy’s …
Kendall D. Flowers
A day at the lake turned deadly for a group of teen boys in Cutler Bay, Florida, on Sept. 27, 2018. Two of the boys were swimming in a deep …
Andrew J. Sullivan
After a plane crash on Oct. 2, 2019, at a Windsor Locks, Connecticut, airport, employees, including 28- year-old operations supervisor Andrew J. Sullivan, of Enfield, Connecticut evacuated to a nearby …
Christopher Etre
Christopher Etre was driving in Grafton, Massachusetts, the night of Dec. 13, 2019, when he saw a car slide off the road and enter the Quinsigamond River. A construction company …
Norman Tanner Olsen
Carnegie Hero Norman Tanner Olsen is still recovering from injuries sustained while saving a man from burning on Sept. 1, 2019, at a remote mountain campground near Kamas, Utah. A …
Two-time Carnegie Medal recipients
Six people in the Hero Fund’s history have been awarded the Carnegie Medal twice — for separate acts, often years apart — in which they risked their lives for another …