— Tommy Earl Barnhill, 43, of Georgetown, S.C. helped pull Altman from the same chemical dryer when he lost consciousness while helping Gibson. Barnhill was hospitalized for respiratory distress but survived.

— Michael P. Schmidt, 38, of Hickory Creek, Texas, saved Alexandra Stuart, 23, from drowning when she accidentally drove her vehicle into Lake Lewisville at a boat launch in Lewisville, Texas on June 6, 2008.

— Richard W. Meserve, 42, of Falmouth, Maine, saved a 9-year-old girl from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Scarborough, Maine, when currents carried the girl away from shore on July 3, 2008.

— Dwight A. Moore, 33, of Aliquippa, Pa., saved neighbor Kara M. Freeman, 18, from the top floor of her burning house on May 23, 2008.

— Casey Marie Peirce, 30, of Calgary, Alberta, saved a man and a woman from drowning as they clung to their capsized canoe which Peirce pulled to safety by swimming with a rope in the 50-degree water of Spray Lakes Reservoir in Canmore, Alberta on July 26, 2008.

— George E. Gorton, 45, of Ware, Mass., broke his leg trying to save a 3-year-old girl who was alone in a van coasting down a hill in East Longmeadow, Mass. on Aug. 3, 2008. Gorton was dragged by the vehicle and fell to the pavement before the van hit a tree, but the girl wasn't hurt.

— Susan M. Ricard, 37, of Webster, Mass., saved John Benoit, 58, from drowning after his sailboat capsized during a storm on Webster Lake on July 18, 2008. Ricard swam to Benoit with two short surfboards, then led him to shore using the boards.

— Randall Scott Brewer, 27, of Lancaster, N.H. drowned attempting to rescue an 11-year-old boy from 38-degree water in the Israel River on April 19, 2008. Brewer pushed the boy to safety before he was carried away by the river's current.

— Aaron D. Robinson, 12, of Cambridge, Md., drowned when he fell through ice trying to save his 8-year-old brother, Jairus, who had also fallen through ice on a pond on Feb. 11, 2007. Jairus Robinson also died.

— Paul Cossalter, 41, of Wrenshall, Minn., died trying to save Joseph P. Kimmes III, 44; his brother, Scott A. Kimmes, 40; and Harold N. Olsen, from suffocating from toxic gas inside a landfill lift station in Superior, Wis. Cossalter was asphyxiated along with the three workers, when he entered the lift station to try to help them.

— Toby Ames, 38, of Runnells, Iowa, saved Sarah M. Elrod, 21, when he pulled her unconscious from her burning automobile after it collided with a truck in Mitchellville, Iowa, on July 18, 2008.

— David Patrick Rosamilla, 38, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., pulled Ronald L. Weamer from a burning vehicle after it struck a tree in Claysburg, Pa. Weamer, 61, died at the scene from his crash injuries.

— Chloe C. Van Alstine, 17, of Wells, N.Y. helped save William T. Trainor, 48, from drowning when his car crashed into Lake Algonquin on Nov. 1, 2008. Van Alstine helped Trainor stay afloat after he escaped the wreck until a man in a boat pulled them to safety.

— Henry W. Mott IV, 42, of Middletown, R.I

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