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Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown saves 14 year old

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Thumbs Up Joshua A. Peterson, right, of Brookings, Ore., owes his life to Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown, a deputy with the Curry County, Ore., Sheriff’s Department. On June 2 last …

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Family’s two Carnegie Medal awardees shared bonds of bravery and selflessness

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Roberta Scholz, Edmonds, Wash. On Jan. 20, 2014, our son, Philip Erich Scholz, 35, died tragically while attempting to rescue a man who was trying to commit suicide by …

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Hero recounts rescue to high school seniors

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Carnegie Medal awardee John Nash Hale, left, of Toms River, N.J., joined the Hero Fund’s director of external affairs, Douglas R. Chambers, for an assembly at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High …

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Schaumburg teens honored at Village Meeting

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Four recently awarded heroes were honored in front of family members and community leaders at the Schaumburg, Ill., April 14 Village Meeting.  Tyler T. Fredrickson, 15, Matthew I. Grammas, 15,  Graham W. Fath, 12, …

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Natural gas leak leads to massive explosion, dramatic rescue by Paul W. Mongiello

Paul W. Mongiello

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Returning home from work on February 19, 2013, Paul W. Mongiello, a 57-year-old insurance executive from Overland Park, Kan., was stopped in traffic in Kansas City, Mo., when a massive …

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Connecticut man rescues young girl from burning apartment

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Frederick J. Levesque, Jr., 52, a retired corrections administrator from Stafford Springs, Conn., rescued Kerra R. Colgan, 7, from her family’s burning apartment in Somers, Conn., on Dec. 4, 2013.  …

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Three heroes, two rescues, one celebration

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On February 20, three recently awarded heroes involved in two different rescues came together to be honored in front of family members and a large number of California Highway Patrol …

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Great, great grandson uncovers ‘granddaddy’s’ grave stone — Ansel James

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Through a family research project, educator Phillip N. Frazier, 41, of Washington, D.C., learned that his great-great-grandfather Ansel James was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1945, when, on Feb. 16, …

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Remembering the hero of 1982 plane crash in Potomac River

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Melvin E.—“Gene”—Windsor, 74, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., died Aug. 24, 2014.  He was one of four men to be named awardees of the Carnegie Medal for their heroic actions in …

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Heroic 16 year olds gave lives for others

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Of the 21 heroes awarded the Carnegie Medal in June of 2014, two were 16-year-old sophomores, Madison Leigh Wallace and Malo Enrique Paul.  Both died in their rescue attempts, and …

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Firefighter rescues two sisters from Yellowstone River

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Justin Lowell Hanley, 43, a wild land firefighter from Miles City, Mont., saved sisters Chava L. and Shoshana L. Berry from drowning in the Yellowstone River at Miles City on …

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‘River man’s code’ prompts rescue act

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On June 12, 2012, Kyle Robert Hardman, while a deckhand on a towboat plying the waters of the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Mo., gave his life in an attempt …

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Judge perishes in Atlantic Ocean rescue

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Mitchell L. McLean, 54, a chief district court judge from North Wilkesboro, N.C., died July 3, 2013 after attempting to save Maryanne Galway and others from drowning in the Atlantic …

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Teacher enters bloodied water in shark attack rescue

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

High school teacher Richard Irvin Moore of Laguna Niguel, Calif., rescued Jana Lutteropp, 20, from a shark attack at Wailea, Hawaii, on August 14, 2013.  Lutteropp was snorkeling in the …

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K-9 olympians

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Connecticut State Trooper Nicholas P. Leary, an awardee of the Carnegie Medal, and his three-year-old K-9 partner Elvis apprehend criminals, locate missing persons, and serve as ambassadors to school groups …

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Water rescues common in New Mexico?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Steven L. Rogge was the 24th resident of the state of New Mexico to be awarded the Carnegie Medal. Rogge, 40 years old at the time of his heroic act, …

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Neighbor returns favor in dog-attack rescue

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Mortgage banker John Nash Hale, 59, was up early on Jan. 14, 2013, so early it was still dark outside, and further, there was a heavy fog in his neighborhood …

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Officers cited for 2010 fire rescue

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Officers Jason Ewing of the Clarkston, Wash., Police Department, center, and Dustin E. Hibbard of the Lewiston, Idaho, Police Department, right, received their Carnegie Medals from Lewiston Mayor Kevin Poole …

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Two team up to rescue six in Hurricane Sandy

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Michael T. McDonnell and Dylan Patrick Smith teamed up to rescue six people from drowning on Oct. 29, 2012, the day that Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeast coast of the …

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Hero honored twice for shark attack rescue

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Connor M. Bystrom, 24, of Holmes Beach, Fla., who was awarded the Carnegie Medal in June 2012, was cited for the same rescue when he was given the U.S. Coast …

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