Carnegie Medal presentation to David Philip Duffey
Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, along with Slippery Rock University President Karen Riley, presented Carnegie Hero David Philip Duffey with the Carnegie Medal at a March 7 private event on …
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Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, along with Slippery Rock University President Karen Riley, presented Carnegie Hero David Philip Duffey with the Carnegie Medal at a March 7 private event on …
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Hero Fund President Eric Zahren presented Carnegie Hero Christine Dawn King with the Carnegie Medal at a Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Council Meeting held Feb. 26. Pictured is Zahren, King, and her …
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The family of Carnegie Hero James G. David was presented with his Carnegie Medal by Congressman Dan Kildee and Hero Fund President Eric Zahren at a Jan. 26 presentation held …
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F. Daniel Calix A., a 23-year-old roofer, was returning home Nov. 22, 2021, to his Flemington, New Jersey, apartment when he saw flames through the living room window of his …
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Hero Fund Commission member Nancy Rackoff presented Carnegie Hero Kendall Reyes with the Carnegie Medal during a Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department award ceremony held Dec. 1, 2023. In June, Reyes …
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The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission is pleased to announce the election of two new members at its Sept.19 meeting. Lisa Sylvester is a veteran network news journalist and communications specialist. …
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Carnegie Hero Robert Cody Moore was presented with the Carnegie Medal during a Bellaire, Texas, city council meeting held Sept. 18, 2023, in Bellaire’s city hall. Moore was having dinner …
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Carnegie Hero Joseph P. Cockerill, center, receives the Carnegie Medal presented by Nebraska Lt. Gov. Joe Kelley, left, and Nebraska Sen. Beau Ballard at a ceremony held Sept. 11 at …
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U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Rayna Michele Montgomery at a Sept. 6 ceremony held at the Virginia Motorsports Museum and Hall of Fame in …
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Two teen sisters entered near-freezing water to save two young boys from drowning after the boys broke through the ice of a retention pond situated in their West Des Moines, …
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A fish and wildlife enforcement officer jumped into action on May 7, 2022, to save a 7-year-old girl who was trapped underwater beneath an overturned boat in the Gulf of …
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A 25-year-old college student was driving in Irwin, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 16, 2022, when he saw the tractor trailer in front of him veer off the highway, collide into a …
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Carnegie Hero Anthony Diehl died July 13, 2022, attempting to save his 7-year-old nephew from drowning near South Haven, Michigan. Elijah T. Britt was playing in the shallow water of …
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Two Glendale (Wisconsin) police officers entered the dangerously cold Milwaukee River on April 10, 2022, to rescue an unresponsive driver, 46, of an SUV that had entered the river and …
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A 9-year-old boy was trapped Aug. 22, 2022, in a pickup truck submerged in water 9 feet deep in a remote Oakley, Utah, reservoir. Paxton K. Knight was with two …
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An 18-year-old man found himself amid crashing 10-foot waves threatening to pound him into seaside cliffs in San Diego while attempting a Jan. 6, 2021, rescue of a couple who had …
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A Palm Beach police officer intervened in a June 18 suicide attempt in which a 67-year-old, distraught woman was perched on the ledge of a six-story building, about 50 feet …
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A 49-year-old man lost consciousness behind the wheel of his four-door pickup truck, which left a Lincoln, Nebraska, road and entered a residential pond on Sept. 3, 2022. As the …
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A 57-year-old club-goer jumped into action July 4, 2022, after a man struck his friend in the face with a handgun. As people inside the Baltimore club shouted that the …
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Suffolk County (New York) police officer Sean Patrick Kalletta responded to a Jan. 2, 2021, house fire in Selden, New York, where a couple remained inside the home while attempting …