Twelve people were honored with New Hampshire Hero Awards during an afternoon ceremony Tuesday outside the State House. The program is sponsored by Citizens and presented by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Hero Awards Stories
As a fire ripped through a mobile home in Seabrook last spring, a police officer, the first person on the scene, acted fast to save one of the people inside.
Windham Police Officer Chris Van Hirtum said he went on instinct when local Deputy Fire Chief Stephen Brady yelled that he needed help getting a fire victim out of a smoke-filled, Manor Motel room on April 6, 2021.
A thick plume of smoke. Flames stretching toward the sky.
Five people were sleeping inside this building on Hill Street in Dover when a fire broke out on June 25, 2021.
Dover police officers Molly Shoer, Tyler Malsbury and Oake Carlson (from left) are pictured at a July 2021 recognition ceremony. They are pictured here with dispatcher Emily Cleary and Police Chief Bill Breault.
Three members of the Dover Police Department are being recognized with New Hampshire Hero Awards after they helped to save the lives of residents in a burning apartment building.
Two law enforcement officers who ran into a smoke-filled Manchester apartment building last year to alert and rescue tenants are being recognized as New Hampshire Heroes.
Saving people from drowning used to be a regular day for Roy Roach, who served as a flight mechanic and hoist operator for the U.S. Coast Guard aboard H-3 Sea King helicopters.