Two members of the FDNY will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Valor on Friday. President Joe Biden is set to award the Medal of Honor to military recipients who displayed heroism and ...

Lt. John Vanderstar was recognized for his heroics on Oct. 23, 2022, when he raced through raging flames in a Bronx apartment to rescue a mother and daughter who were trapped in a fire in a back ...

President Joe Biden will honor extraordinary acts of bravery on Friday in one of his final opportunities to formally ...

Lt. John Vanderstar, a New York City firefighter, received the Medal of Valor for rescuing a mother and child from a burning apartment on Oct. 23, 2022. Separately, New York City firefighter ...

Honored in the ceremony were FDNY Firefighter Brendan Gaffney, FDNY Lieutenant John Vanderstar, Sergeant Tu Tran of the Police Department of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Detective Michael Collazo, Sergeant ...

Tu Tran for saving a woman drowning in Lincoln, Neb., in February 2023; Lt. John Vanderstar of the New York City fire department for saving a mother and her child in a burning apartment in October ...