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From the Archives: 50 years ago ambulance workers save steel work from second, third explosions

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Brown’s Island is a 2-mile-long island nestled in the waters of the Ohio River. Surrounded by the rolling hills of Weirton, West Virginia, this little crop of land was home …

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From the archives: Female flight instructor responds to 1958 ’copter crash

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Eli Lambiotte

In the early afternoon of Monday, April 28, 1958, 34-year-old John J. Ryan and his Powell Valley Electric Cooperative colleague, 49-year-old Davis L. McNiel, left Jonesville, Virginia, in a Bell …

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From the Archives: 40th Anniversary of the Rescue on the Potomac

Rescue on the Potomac

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Abby Marie

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 …

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From the Archives: Nurse saves father and son from 1913 hospital fire

Nurse Lillian M. Coburn

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Abby Marie

On the cool morning of Sept. 7, 1913, at California’s Susanville Hospital, a father and son were residing in adjacent rooms. William D. Minckler, Sr., a 62-year-old civil engineer, was …

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From the Archives: Rescue inside the water box

water box

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Abby Marie

On the morning of Friday, October 19, 1984, 50-year-old Lloyd Hansen, senior control operator from Watsonville, California, was working at an inoperative surface condensing unit at a Pacific Gas and …

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From the Archives: Circle-K clerk saves toddler in runaway truck

Billie Jean Power

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

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 …

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From the Archives: Explosion in the Nuclear Reactor Room

Explosion nuclear reactor

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

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 …

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From the Archives: 16-year-old girl saves elderly neighbor in 1965 Ontario building blaze

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

In the early morning of an overcast Nov. 9, 1965, B. Bedelia Faeder, 73, was asleep in her third-floor apartment on King Street in Brockville, Ontario. The stone and brick …

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From the Archives: Hiking trip gone awry — 1965 rappelling rescue takes hours

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

On the evening of July 7, 1965, 18-year-old Clayton E. Toensing was descending the steep face of a 430-foot cliff with two younger teenagers, when he lost his footing, fell …

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Rescue at the swamp: birthday celebrations turn near-deadly

Swamp rescue

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On May 1, 1962, the weather was overcast in Mason County, Wash. Will H. Simpson had just finished up work as a plywood machine operator around 4 p.m. It was …

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The enraged deer attack, investigated by H.W. Eyman

deer attack

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On the morning of Nov. 23, 1959, Levi P. Yates, a 38-year-old park caretaker, made his way to the deer pen of the Volunteer Park Zoo in Pasco, Wash. The …

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From the Archives: Hostage forfeits chance to escape to save colleagues

Louis Gorman archives

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Carnegie Hero Fund

The events leading up to the 1959 heroism of Louis Gorman in behalf of seven other men held hostage at their workplace for several hours began with a hunt for …

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From the Archives: Terror in the Fruit Cellar — ‘Where there’s water and electricity, you’ve got problems’

Terror in the Fruit Cellar

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Fifty years ago, on the night of July 4, 1969, stormy weather was brewing in the city of Sandusky, Ohio. During this particular electrical storm, 70 m.p.h. gale winds persisted …

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From the Archives: Strength in Numbers — 12 men awarded Carnegie Medals for mine rescue

mine rescue

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Carnegie Hero Fund

April 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of a Salmo mine accident and resulting acts of extraordinary heroism by 12 men, who were awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1972. It is …

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From the archives: ‘Boy hero’ receives Carnegie Medal grave marker

boy hero

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Carnegie Hero Fund

After months of searching—which included two newspaper articles, several interviews, and hours of genealogical research—Boy Scouts of America official Gregory Motta could not solve the mystery of who was leaving …

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From the archives: Grave marker of John N. Miller unveiled

John N. Miller

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Carnegie Hero Fund

It was Thanksgiving Day in 1949 when a fire tore through a house in the village of Aquashicola, Pa., and forever changed the lives of two young families. John N. …

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From the archives: Carnegie Medal presented twice to Carnegie Hero Ruby Hattie Lindsay

Ruby Hattie Lindsay

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Sharon Sanders Southeast Missourian In April 1924, school teacher Marjorie Haines Hobbs and her 15-year-old pupil, Ruby Hattie Lindsay, were enjoying a hike in the woods north of Cape …

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From the archives: A renowned explorer, Carnegie hero remembered as fair, decent

from the archives

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Phoebe Porter Conway, Mass. Carnegie Medal awardee Charles T. Porter, Jr.—known by his family as “Talby” and by the outside world as “Charlie”—led an adventurous life.  It was often …

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From the archives: Ocean rescues by Laguna Beach businessman predated city’s lifeguards

from the archives

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Carnegie Hero Fund

The first paid lifeguards of Laguna Beach, Calif., were hired in the summer of 1929, two years after the sleepy and somewhat isolated little town was incorporated as a city. …

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From the archives: The Carnegies visit Santa Cruz

From the archives

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

  By contemporary accounts, the visit of Andrew Carnegie and his wife, Louise, and daughter, Margaret, to Santa Cruz, Calif., on March 11, 1910, was thoroughly enjoyed by both the …

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