Carnegie Hero Fund Commission President Eric Zahren, left, presents the Carnegie Medal to Leslie E. Shaffer at a park gazebo in Akron, Ohio, on March 11, 2021. After a private …
James R. Seitz, 51, of Denver, North Carolina, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, after a month-long battle with pneumonia and COVID-19. Seitz received the Carnegie Medal in 2001 for the …
James Vernon, 81, of Morton, Illinois died Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Vernon was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017 for saving …
Ricky Don Bailey, 63, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at his Clinton, Louisiana, home surrounded by family. His death came after a long struggle with dementia. When Bailey was 31 …
Ronald Larsen, 81, of Elko, Nevada, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. When Larsen was 57, he rescued 3-year-old Nicholas R. Nolte from burning in his family’s one-story home on Jan. …
On the warm evening of May 19, 1967, 23-year-old mother Toni Diffie fastened her 3-year-old daughter Ginger Lee into a canvas car seat that hung from the backrest of the …
By Glen Sharp NYfights.com Rudell Stitch died on a Sunday – June 5, 1960 – the day before he was to sign for a rematch with the No. 1-ranked welterweight …
Nowadays, as I sit in my office, I am positioned under Carnegie’s portrait, and cannot help but reflect, with some awe, on the responsibility of following in the footsteps of …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
