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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: awardees

Chad W. Chichester

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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, …

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Emilyn Golden

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Gabriel Lucas Gardner, deceased

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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, …

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Roberto Y. Longoria, deceased

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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. …

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Kevin Conklin

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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, …

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James W. Musgrove, Jr.

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Daniel Franz

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Jose M. Pichardo

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Kortnie Balls

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Zachary Sjosward

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Nicholas L. Bostic

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Paul Galotti

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Terrance A. Dea, deceased

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Derek Winemiller

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

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. …

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Mark Anthony Gonzales

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Darby Bicking

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Robert Z. Fortner

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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. …

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Anthony R. Perry

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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Chad Ammerman

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Colin Cavada

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 …

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