The Carnegie Hero Fund not too long ago acknowledged 18 people, together with a deceased man from Charleston, KeVaughn Montgomery.
All of the People acknowledged by the Enjoyable risked severe harm or loss of life, or have been killed, saving or trying to save lots of others in acts of extraordinary heroism. That is the Hero Fund’s third award announcement for 2025. Every particular person will obtain the Carnegie Medal for Heroism, North America’s highest honor for civilian heroism.
The Carnegie Medal is given all through the U.S. and Canada to those that enter excessive hazard whereas saving or trying to save lots of the lives of others. With this announcement, the Carnegie Medal has been awarded to 10,528 people because the inception of the Pittsburgh-based Fund in 1904. Every of the recipients or their survivors will obtain a monetary grant. All through the 121 years because the Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, greater than $45 million has been given in one-time grants, scholarship assist, loss of life advantages, and persevering with help.
Montgomery was honored after an 8-year-old boy slid down a leisure slide on a double-decker pontoon boat into Sutton Lake on July 15, 2024. After coming into the water, at a degree that was 14 ft deep, he started to panic and struggled to remain afloat. He was carrying a life jacket, however one of many hooks on it unlatched and the jacket began to loosen from his physique, however it didn’t utterly come off.
The boy’s father was 25-year-old building employee KeVaughn Montgomery. He noticed his son panic within the water and jumped from the boat. He landed within the water about 10 ft away from the boy and swam to him to understand him beneath his arms. Montgomery held him above the water’s floor because the boy panicked, which brought about Montgomery to repeatedly submerge. He continued to carry the boy above the floor and finally pushed the boy just a few ft towards the boat.
Montgomery then submerged and didn’t resurface. Different adults within the social gathering had entered the water after Montgomery and introduced the boy again onto the boat to security. The boy was not injured. Poor visibility made it tough to seek for Montgomery and there was no cell service on the scene. Members of the social gathering went to a close-by marina to name 911 and a search was initiated for Montgomery. He was not discovered till divers recovered his physique the next day. He had drowned.
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