Dublin girl, Ohioans among 20 honorees
PITTSBURGH — A 13-year-old Dublin girl and three other Ohioans are among 20 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, based in Pittsburgh, announced the winners on Wednesday.
Madison Williams, of Dublin, saved a 2-year-old boy from drowning after he fell through a septic tank hatch in August 2016.
The eighth-grader at Hilliard Weaver Middle School was outside that evening when she heard her neighbor screaming. She went to the neighbor’s residence and discovered the woman’s 2-year-old son was in a septic tank. Williams said she had to hang down into the tank to grab onto the boy’s foot and lift him out.
The three other Ohioans honored were Timothy Carpenter, 48, of Cincinnati, Richard David Greeno, 40, of Williamsport, and Lisa McNairy, 50, of Circleville.
Carpenter attempted to rescue a woman in a wheelchair who was being stabbed. Carpenter subdued the attacker and was wounded, but the victim died in the January 2015 incident. Greeno and McNairy rescued a man from a burning home in Circleville in October 2015.
George A. Heath, 56, was among the 20 award winners. He died while saving a waitress in his hometown of Taunton, Massachusetts, as he dined at Bertucci’s restaurant. Arthur DaRosa, who had fatally stabbed an 80-yearold woman at her home earlier that night, walked in and stabbed a waitress. Heath grabbed DaRosa and was stabbed in the head before another restaurant patron, off-duty Plymouth County Deputy Sheriff James Creed, fatally shot DaRosa.
Another honoree, 12-yearold Sanford Harling III, had escaped a fire at his family’s duplex in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 6, 2016, when he went back inside to try to save his father. Sanford Harling Jr., 58, was able to drop to the ground from a second-floor window, and his son was later found dead from burns and smoke inhalation.