...rescue a police officer can have a down side. Publicity over the medal and $3,500 Schott received from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission of Pittsburgh has blown his cover as a security guard at least once. Attention for the award has been "awkward...

BACK IN TIME March 5, 1993 On Thursday the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission honored Robbie Lord for pulling two injured, bleeding people from a burning Piper airplane following a 1991 crash near Blythe...

...foundations, most of which are thriving today. Of all his foundations, the one he was most proud of was the Carnegie Heroes Fund Commission. The purpose of this commission is to honor those civilians who accomplished an act of extraordinary courage...

...rescued a 17-month-old girl from an abandoned well in Starr, S.C., has been awarded a bronze meal by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Weldon Roberts, 46, farm hand, climbed down a 40-foot shaft drilled next to a 10-inch terra cotta...

...were among 18 people honored for acts of heroism. The winners get $3,000 and a bronze medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, which industrialist Andrew Carnegie started in Pittsburgh in 1904, inspired by tales of heroism during a...