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 …
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Officer John Smith,
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Roll of Honor vol. 1 available online
The Hero Fund is proud to announce that the first volume of its Roll of Honor is available to view online. The electronic PDF file mirrors the tome, published in …
From the Archives: Explosion in the Nuclear Reactor Room
On Jan. 3, 1961, representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Combustion Engineering Company were notified of an emergency at the National Reactor Testing Station located 8 miles north …
Carnegie Medal presentation at top of Squaw Peak impacts hero and victim
Henry F.F. Grant has hiked to the rocky, 1,642-foot summit of Squaw Peak, just miles from his Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home dozens of times since he was 3. But the …
Behind the Scenes: Shedding Light on the complicated case of Black Inventor Garrett Morgan
The rescues that occurred after the 1916 Cleveland Waterworks Tunnel Disaster required Hero Fund Investigator A.W. Crawford to parse even the minutest details to accurately determine the specific actions of …
Carnegie Medal, $500 awarded one year after attempted rescue
Carnegie Hero Helmer M. Aakvik was awarded the Carnegie Medal in October 1959, along with $500 to be spent on “a worthy purpose.” Carnegie Hero Fund records indicate that Aakvik’s …
Impulse 64: Board Notes
In this issue of Impulse, Editor Jewels Phraner takes you on a deep dive into the 1916 Cleveland Waterworks Tunnel Disaster which killed 21 and injured others. Phraner, a veteran …
Grave marker is inset into 1971 hero’s headstone
Family members worked together to add a Carnegie Medal grave marker to the headstone of Carnegie Hero Raymond J. Grundler, who died while trying to save two men from suffocating …
Thanksgiving ice-storm rescue highlighted in ‘Bold Sea Stories’ collection
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 17, 1958. The Old Man was at last headed home. His ordeal had begun a day earlier when a neighbor had worriedly told him, “The young fellow …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Scott Ullom and Zachary A. McDowell
At an Oct. 28, 2020, lunch in Washington, Pennsylvania, Hero Fund President Eric Zahren presented Carnegie heroes Scott Ullom left, and Zachary A. McDowell, right, with the Carnegie Medal. Medics …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Zachary Salce and Maddison Henslin
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, right, on Oct. 21, 2020, presented deputy Zachary Salce, left, and Maddison Henslin with the Carnegie Medal for their Nov. 13, 2018, rescue of …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael Douglas Barkhouse
Leaders in West Hants Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia honored one of their residents, Carnegie Hero Michael Douglas Barkhouse, left, at their Oct. 27, 2020, council meeting, where West Hants …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Kenneth L. Hamilton
St. Mary’s University police Chief David Ott, left, presents the Carnegie Medal to Sgt. Kenneth L. Hamilton, right, in a private, on-campus ceremony Oct. 1, 2020. Hamilton, 54, was off-duty …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Ernest J. Tarsitano
U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, right, recognized Ernest J. Tarsitano, of Galloway, New Jersey, for his heroism in helping save a man from a burning cabin in 2018. Van Drew, …
Friends remembered: Herbert A. Moran
Herbert A. Moran, 66, of Arnold, California, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California. When Moran was just 24 years old, he rescued 16-year-old Stacy …
Friends remembered: Gary F. Lamberty
Gary F. Lamberty, 70, of Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Nearly 30 years earlier, Lamberty was awarded the Carnegie Medal for helping save two individuals from a …
Friends remembered: Mark James Hoffman
Mark James Hoffman, 56, of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, at Cedar Crest Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hoffman was named a Carnegie hero in 2015 for helping …
Friends remembered: William S. Caswell
William S. Caswell, 84, of Austin, Kentucky, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, with his family at his side after a lengthy battle with cancer. In 1968, Caswell was awarded the …
Friends remembered: Yuen Kong Won
Yuen Kong Won, 84, of Roseville, California, died Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, due to complications from a stroke. In 2004 Won was awarded the Carnegie Medal for rescuing a 43-year-old …
Friends remembered: John William Oplinger
John William Oplinger, 72, of Wapwallopen, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Oplinger received the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for rescuing a 15-year-old boy …