Chad W. Chichester
A 52-year-old engineer of Midland, Michigan, responded to a burning all-terrain vehicle on April 3 in Sherman Township, Michigan. Passenger Karleigh M. Zmikly, 23, remained inside the ATV as flames …
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Christopher K. Burkett, deceased
A 93-year-old woman, Shirley Treadwell, and her caretaker were inside an SUV that was stuck straddling a train track on Nov. 10, 2021, in Forsyth, Georgia. Christopher K. Burkett, 47, …
Emilyn Golden
A 15-year-old boy, who was autistic and nonverbal, drifted with the outgoing tide about 300 feet from a Burrard Inlet beach in West Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sept. 9. Emilyn …
Gabriel Lucas Gardner, deceased
A father drowned June 26, 2020, saving his toddler daughter from the same fate. Kinzlee R. Gardner, 21 months, was wearing a life jacket in a kayak with her mother, …
Roberto Y. Longoria, deceased
Roberto Y. Longoria, a 42-year-old tanker technician of Phoenix, died Aug. 29, 2021, while attempting to save his 32-year-old co-worker from suffocation inside a chemical tanker trailer in Avondale, Arizona. …
Kevin Conklin
A local high school student was hospitalized after attempting the Aug. 4, 2020, water rescue of a 6-year-old boy who was playing in a flooded 5-foot ditch at a Bethlehem, …
James W. Musgrove, Jr.
When shots rang out at a June 16 church potluck in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, James W. Musgrove, Jr., did not hesitate to subdue the shooter, a 70-year-old man armed with …
Daniel Franz
On April 7, the driver of an SUV remained inside his car after it left a highway and struck a rock wall that separated the road from a reservoir in …
Jose M. Pichardo
A 97-year-old woman was saved Oct. 1, 2021, from her burning home thanks to a passerby who responded. Jose M. Pichardo, a 41-year-old car salesman in Nashua, New Hampshire, was …
Kortnie Balls
Kortnie Balls, a local 25-year-old delivery driver, on March 23, 2022, entered a burning Pocatello, Idaho, mobile home amid exploding oxygen tanks, dense black smoke that precluded visibility, and spreading …
Zachary Sjosward
Three men fishing on Sept. 13 in the Atlantic Ocean at a beach in Island Beach State Park in Seaside Park, New Jersey, encountered trouble when a rip current pulled …
Nicholas L. Bostic
A passerby on July 11 suffered from smoke inhalation, first- and second-degree burns, and a serious laceration to his arm, after jumping from a second-story window holding a 6-year-old girl …
Paul Galotti
Sixty-one-year-old David Martinez, who uses a wheelchair, was trapped in his Easthampton, Massachusetts, burning apartment after his bedroom caught fire and blocked his exit. A neighbor, Paul Galotti, 38, environmental …
Terrance A. Dea, deceased
Terrance A. Dea, a 70-year-old retired sales manager of Louisville, drowned June 5, 2021, attempting to rescue an 18-year-old woman who was thrown from her jet ski into the Little …
Derek Winemiller
Derek Winemiller, a 38-year-old union carpenter from Kansas City, Missouri, was left paralyzed from the chest down after intervening in a Feb. 9, 2020, armed robbery at a neighborhood store. …
Mark Anthony Gonzales
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 …
Darby Bicking
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 …
Robert Z. Fortner
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. …
Anthony R. Perry
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 …
Chad Ammerman
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 …