Other Carnegie medal winners

• John P. Williams, 41, of La Crosse, Wis., helped save a man from drowning in the Mississippi River in June 2011.

• John Lynn Haight, 54, of Rogue River, Ore., saved an unconscious man from drowning in the Rogue River in June 2011.

• Michael Chad Perry, 26, of Phenix City, Ala., saved a man stricken with a medical condition from his out-of-control vehicle in Columbus, Ga., in August 2011.

• Rodney Bone, 40, of Grady, N.M., and Christopher S. Stimpson, 50, of Tucumcari, N.M., saved two men from a burning semitrailer truck cab after a crash in San Jon, N.M., in July 2011.

• Richard Henry Becker, 31, of Mendocino, Calif., saved a teenage boy from drowning in the Pacific Ocean when his surfboard broke in the rough seas of Mendocino Bay in January 2011.

•Daniel R. Welp, 55, of Dubuque, Ill., saved a man from drowning when his pickup was swept into a ditch during heavy rains in East Dubuque, Ill., in July 2011.

• Matthew R. Scribner, 24, of Palmyra, N.Y., saved a man from drowning after his kayak rolled on Ganargua Creek in April 2011.

• Steven DeGrace, 40, of Beresford, New Brunswick, Canada, saved a 75-year-old man from burning when his house caught fire in St. Margarets, New Brunswick, in September 2009.

• Christopher Patino, 16, of Rochester, N.Y., and Mustafa A. Said, 19, of Henrietta, N.Y., rescued a teenage girl who was stabbed by an attacker in a grocery store in Henrietta in January 2011.

•Summer N. White, 18, of Edmond, Okla., tried to save a woman from being struck by a vehicle after she had crashed on an interstate highway in Mulvane, Kan., in June 2011.