John Miner
In another police rescue, Sheriff’s Deputy John Miner, 39, of Phillipsburg, Kansas, pulled off a rural highway in Long Island, Kansas, to offer aid to two families that had pulled …
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Eric C. Keys
A 37-year-old woman was unconscious and trapped inside her burning SUV after it left a highway and crashed into a tree on March 13, 2019, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. A …
Christian W. Smith
Christian W. Smith, 27, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, had just finished a dog training session on June 1, 2020, on a pedestrian bridge that spanned the Grand River near Grand …
Ernest Beauparland and Ronald Rock
On the morning of Feb. 3, 2020, an 83-year-old man who used a wheelchair was trapped on the second story of a burning building after flames broke out on the …
Evan Patrick Ishima and Gabriel Cedrik Saechao
Two rescuers died while trying to save another man who, on May 28, 2020, had entered the North Fork Cosumnes River near a waterfall and submerged into an underwater chamber. …
Sivad H. Johnson
An off-duty firefighter entered the Detroit River Aug. 21, 2020, to save three children who were drowning near Detroit. Sivad H. Johnson, 49, of Detroit, was with his daughter when …
Alan R. Cote and Stephen P. Carkhuff
Neighbors who heard a late-night crash outside their Auburn, New Hampshire, homes, rushed to the scene. On Oct. 23, 2019, the car, containing Cohen D. Bergeron, 23, and Fallon R. …
John D. Colter
After hearing screams and shots fired from inside his daughter’s home, John D. Colter, a 66-year-old pharmacist of Fenton, Missouri, ran inside the home and tackled his daughter’s estranged husband, …
Edgar F. Moreno Alba
High schooler Edgar F. Moreno Alba, 17, of Aguascalientes, Mexico, drowned June 28, 2020, after assisting a younger boy who was struggling in Lake Camanche near Valley Springs, California. The …
Jean-Paul LaPierre
At 5:40 a.m. before the Oct. 13, 2019, Chicago Marathon, a man armed with a loaded handgun was robbing passengers on a crowded train headed for downtown. A passenger at …
Allen Robert Linder
Thirty-year-old Ashley N. Friedman collapsed while cleaning the inside of the tank of a tanker trailer, which contained residual chemicals on Feb. 20, 2020, in Cleveland. Her mother, who worked …
Erich M. Funccius
Erich M. Funccius, a 32-year-old security officer, was grilling a steak on Oct. 1, 2020, on the porch of his home in Kingston, New York, when a nearby car struck …
Scott McFarland
It was close to midnight on Dec. 13, 2019, when 47-year-old ironworker Scott McFarland heard a car violently crash into a tree in the backyard of his Beaverton, Michigan, home. …
Draven M. Starr-Howell
A 14-year-old floating on an inner tube on Lake Ontario on July 2, 2020, was being carried away from shore, and, panicking, she left the inner tube and entered the …
Hiedi Johnston
A 49-year-old stay-at-home mom acted without hesitation after she saw a pickup truck speed into Humboldt Bay off Eureka, California, in the afternoon of Jan. 2. The truck entered the …
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 …
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 …