AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — On Monday, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission announced it is to recognize 17 individuals for their heroic acts.
According to CHFC officials, all the men and women recognized risked serious injury or death, or were killed, saving or attempting to save others in acts of extraordinary heroism. This is the Hero Fund’s fourth and final award announcement for 2025. Each individual will receive the Carnegie Medal for Heroism, North America’s highest honor for civilian heroism.
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Among those saved, or attempted to be saved, by this quarter’s Carnegie Medal recipients were seven children, including a 10-year-old whose mother died helping to rescue him from drowning in a river in New Hampshire, and a man trapped inside a burning airplane that crash-landed upside down.
The Carnegie Medal is awarded across the U.S. and Canada to individuals who enter extreme danger while saving or attempting to save others. With this announcement, the Carnegie Medal has been awarded to 10,545 individuals since the Pittsburgh-based Fund’s inception in 1904. Each recipient or their survivors will receive a financial grant. Over the 121 years since the Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, more than $45 million has been awarded in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and ongoing assistance…