From left, the mother of posthumous Carnegie Medal recipient Edgar F. Moreno Alba proudly holds her son’s Carnegie Medal, which was presented to her by Hero Fund Communications Director Jewels …
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman presents the Carnegie Medal posthumously awarded to D’Angelo Cordero Jenkins to his mother, Kysia Lewis, during a ceremony at Norman’s district office in Rock Hill, South …
Carnegie Hero Shane Morrison (left) shakes the hand of Hero Fund President Eric Zahren upon receiving the Carnegie Medal from Zahren at a Concord Township (Ohio) Board of Trustees meeting …
Andre J. Ledbetter, 75, of Pahrump, Nevada, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at home. He was surrounded by family and his beloved dog. When he was 18, Ledbetter saved a …
James Walter Polowy, 74, of Long Grove, Illinois, died Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. In 1980, Polowy repeatedly dived into the Miami Canal in Hialeah, Florida, to save a 49-year-old woman …
Randall ODell Williams, 58, of Saginaw, Michigan, died Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. In 1991, Williams, then 28, a newspaper delivery truck driver, was in a Saginaw neighborhood and saw a …
R.A. Mills, 90, of Albany, Oregon, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. While on a cycling trip in 1988, Mills rescued a 74-year-old …
Earl E. Cummins, 90, formerly of Fairhope, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, April 17, 2022. In 2004, Cummins saved a 76-year-old woman from burning after fire broke out in her Hyndman, Pennsylvania, …
In Spring 2021, Summer N. White earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Oklahoma State University. Ten years earlier, White acted on an impulse to attempt to save a …
The Hero Fund saw increased interest in the Carnegie Medal and its heroes in the months after CBS’ news magazine 60 Minutes aired a segment about Carnegie heroes in Fall …
Here at the Hero Fund we enjoy the traditional classic Christmas move It’s A Wonderful Life as much as anyone. It’s a great movie, one of the best American movies. …
The family of Carnegie Hero Fred Alsman, who saved a 1- and 2 year-old from their burning home in 1967, will place a Carnegie Hero grave marker on his headstone …
On January 13, 1982, cold temperatures and snow plagued the Washington, D.C., area so much so that, by the afternoon, businesses and schools had closed for the day. The great …
Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, left, along with Weymouth (Massachusetts) Mayor Robert Hedlund, presented the Carnegie Medal to Jean-Paul LaPierre, right, at a Nov. 3, 2021, ceremony held at Weymouth …
In a screenshot of a Nov. 16, 2021, board meeting, Hiedi Johnston, of Willow Creek, California, displays the Carnegie Medal for the Humboldt County supervisors, who recognized Johnston. Johnston helped …
Carnegie Medal recipients Ernest Beauparland (left) and Ronald Rock (right) pose with their partners after a private presentation held Nov. 2, 2021, at The Harvard Club of Boston, in which …
Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones, center, presented the Carnegie Medal posthumously awarded to Sivad H. Johnson to his brother, Jamal, left, and father, William, on Nov. 18, 2021. Johnson, an …
Carnegie Medal recipients Stephen P. Carkhuff, left, and Alan R. Cote, right, pose with Fallon R. Andrews, one of the two people the duo saved from a burning vehicle on …
Allen Linder, Jr., right, accepts the Carnegie Medal posthumously awarded to his father, Allen Robert Linder, from Huron County (Ohio) Commissioner Terry Boose on Jan. 6, 2022. The elder Linder, …
Charles County (Maryland) Sheriff’s Cpl. Eric C. Keys holds his Carnegie Medal after a Nov. 30, 2021, presentation at the sheriff’s department in La Plata, Maryland. While transporting a prisoner, …
