A man who saved his wife from a gator attack in the St. Lucie River last summer will receive a medal for his act of heroism.
The Carnegie Hero Fund announced 18 recipients of its medal for acts of extraordinary heroism on Monday. One of them is Kelby Perren, 33, who engaged in a tug-of-war with an 8-foot gator after it clamped onto his wife Amber’s right arm in the St. Lucie River last July.
“I pulled her back, the gator pulled back, and I pulled her again, and she came loose,” Kelby told WFLX in September 2025…