EVERETT — The American Red Cross Snohomish County Chapter is looking for heroes.
Nominations will be accepted until Aug. 15 for local people to be honored at the agency’s 20th annual Real Heroes Breakfast. That event will be held Dec. 10 at the Tulalip Resort Casino’s Orca Ballroom. It’s a fundraiser that helps support disaster relief in the area.
The awards recognize ordinary people whose acts of extraordinary courage saved someone or greatly helped someone in a life-threatening situation or time of crisis. Nominees may also be public servants whose actions went far beyond the scope of their jobs.
Nominees or people nominating someone should live, work or be stationed in Snohomish County. The act should be verifiable by one or more witnesses, by police reports, news articles or other factual material.
“It’s been an exceptional year for Snohomish County. We’ve been challenged in ways we never expected, yet we’ve also witnessed the exceptional courage of community members who stepped up to respond,” said Chuck Morrison, executive director of the local Red Cross, in a statement seeking nominations. “These are the heroes that make our community a better, safer place to live.”
Among the 17 Real Heroes honored at last year’s breakfast were a Snohomish man who braved an icy river to save a 6-year-old boy near Mount Rainier; a Darrington man who aided survivors as he trudged through muck after the Oso mudslide; and a Scriber Lake High School student who used her CPR training to help a man suffering a cardiac event.
To share an heroic or extraordinary act, fill out a nomination form online by Aug. 15: www.redcross.org/nwheroes.
For more information, contact Alison Brooks: Alison.Brooks2@Redcross.org or call 206-726-3529.
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