Carnegie Medals Awarded to 22 for Extraordinary Acts of Civilian Heroism

PITTSBURGH, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In its first award announcement of 2010, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission today named 22 individuals as recipients of the CARNEGIE MEDAL.  The medal is given throughout the United States and Canada to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.  

The heroes announced today bring to 9,349 the total number of awards since the Pittsburgh-based Fund's inception in 1904.  Commission President Mark Laskow stated that each of the awardees or their next of kin will also receive a financial grant.  Throughout the 106 years since the Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, more than $32 million has been given in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and continuing assistance.  

Summaries of the heroic acts can be found at http://www.carnegiehero.org/awardees_recent.php. Additional information on the CARNEGIE MEDAL and the history of the CARNEGIE HERO FUND COMMISSION can be found at www.carnegiehero.org  

SOURCE Carnegie Hero Fund