The Goodness of America
Honoring Heroics
Indiana pizza delivery driver Nicholas Bostic was recently awarded a Carnegie Medal for rescuing five siblings from a burning house last July. According to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the Carnegie Medal “is awarded to civilians who risk death or serious physical injury to an extraordinary degree saving or attempting to save the lives of others.” Bostic’s heroic actions certainly fit the bill.
While delivering pizzas late at night on July 11, he spotted a house ablaze and immediately parked his car. He yelled to warn any occupants still in the house that the house was on fire, and when he did not hear a response, he decided to enter the house himself to confirm it was empty. He found four children and their 18-year-old sister in the home.
Three of the children, two of whom were 13 and the other just 20 months old, were with their 18-year-old sister upstairs when Bostic found them. He led them down the stairs and out of the house through the back door, as the blaze had already consumed the porch and front door and had spread to the living room. He then asked if there was anyone else in the house, to which the children responded that their six-year-old sister was still in the house, but they did not know where she was.
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