COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) – A Council Bluffs teenager will receive a national honor for saving his father from an attack.
Erik Opal has been named a recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Heroism. The award is given quarterly to people who knowingly and voluntarily risk their own lives to save others.
In December, Erik’s father entered a vacant house that he owns when a man inside allegedly attacked him with a hunting knife…