Alec Daviau
A 39-year-old university student entered the 42-degree Blanche River multiple times to rescue a 7-year-old girl who was being carried downstream. On May 2, 2021, Emilia I. Fontana fell from …
Author: Jewels Phraner
Raphael Jafri and Jameson Lobb
Working out on a New York pier over the East River, Jameson Lobb and Raphael Jafri responded to shouts of help from a bystander who noticed a 54-year-old man floating …
Christopher Bryant Aboyte, Damien Castro, and Robert Michael Sherock
Three Los Angeles police officers responded to a Jan. 9 accident in which a plane had crash-landed at an intersection of a railroad track and a four-lane road in Pacoima, …
Saul Ortiz Marquez, deceased
A 28-year-old laborer died June 13, 2020, while saving his 8-year-old son from drowning in the Trinity River off of Fort Worth, Texas. Saul Ortiz Marquez of Justin, Texas, immediately …
Allen Noble Corson, Jr.
A 26-year-old slot machine attendant from Taftville, Connecticut, was dining July 3, 2019, with his parents and fiancée at a Worcester, Massachusetts, restaurant, when he heard screaming from elsewhere inside …
Dustin Wayne Roach
Twenty-nine-year-old Lucia M. Mendoza struggled in the turbulent spillway water of Wright Patman Lake in Texarkana, Texas, after the car she was in left the road and entered the water …
Kenneth S. Andreen
A 45-year-old man remained in his Pittsburgh home after flames broke out on the second story on Feb. 24. Local delivery driver, 48-year-old Kenneth S. Andreen was driving nearby when …
Frank P. Axiotes
A Sept. 25, 2020, multi-vehicle highway accident in Lincoln, Nebraska, left Madison R. Daly, 21, in the driver’s seat of a sport utility vehicle that was pinned between a tractor …
Scott Morin; Enmanuel Familia, deceased; Amy M. Waterman; Angela C. Consiglio; and Steven Barnett
Five Massachusetts police officers will receive the Carnegie Medal after helping three teens struggling to stay afloat in Green Hill Pond in Worcester, Massachusetts, on June 4, 2021. Worcester officer …
Suzanne Fortin
A March 6, 2021, propane-related explosion left 75-year-old David M. Munce dazed and motionless at the stove inside his Duncan, British Columbia, mobile home. Neighbor Suzanne Fortin, 70, heard the …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 70
Let us pity those who haven’t ancestors of whom they can be proud, dukes or duchesses though they be. — An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, 1899
Carnegie Medal presentation to Marena L. Kouba
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, left, is pictured with Carnegie Hero Marena L. Kouba and Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, at her award presentation on July 22, 2022, at Fire Lake …
Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren elected Commission Chair, long-time head Mark Laskow elected Chair Emeritus
At its annual meeting on June 21, 2022, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission elected President Eric P. Zahren to serve as the Commission’s chair, effective immediately. Mr. Zahren, who will …
Anthony Stephen Capuano
A 68-year-old man remained in the driver’s seat of his car after it plunged into Newark Bay near Bayonne, New Jersey, on Nov. 10, 2020. As Joseph M. Kadian screamed …
William Werts, Jr.
William Werts, Jr., 56, of New Castle, Delaware, a maintenance worker for a Wilmington, Delaware, apartment complex, rushed to the scene of a Nov. 25, 2020, fire in a second-story …
Antonio Raul Rivera
A 64-year-old man fled his home April 21, 2021, after his 26-year-old son stabbed him in the head. Collapsing in his Bolingbrook, Illinois, front yard, the man screamed for help. …
Jason R. Milks
A 35-year-old woman was swimming on May 26, 2020, in the 50-degree Pacific Ocean off of Seaside, Oregon, with a kickboard when she was pulled away from shore and shouted …
Katelynn Saengdala
When a 39-year-old, Kitchener, Ontario, man and his 12-year-old daughter struggled on Aug. 27, 2020, in Lake Erie off of Port Colborne, Ontario, Katelynn Saengdala, a 32-year-old manufacturing worker of …
Lewis A. Medina
Lewis A. Medina, a 60-year-old construction driver of Aurora, Illinois, was driving in Aurora on the night of Oct. 9, 2021, when he spotted a sports utility vehicle on a …
Anthony Peterkin and Jaden DeShawn Peterkin
A father-and-son team sustained injuries after removing an 88-year-old man who had collapsed in his burning Fayetteville, North Carolina, home on April 11, 2021. Russell D. Cox was lying on …