HONORING VALOROUS CONDUCT FIREFIGHTERS' HEROIC ACTIONS REMEMBERED.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer While flying a critically injured 11-year-old girl to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. on March 23, 1998, Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. pilot Steven L. Robinson was forced to make a crash-landing after the tail rotor failed. Sending a mayday signal, Robinson forced his aircraft away from the houses and roadways below. ``His courageous decision to guide the nonairworthy helicopter away from a heavily populated residential area and towards a rugged, steep-sided, tree-filled canyon bottom, greatly minimized the impact to the community,'' Los Angeles Dodgers "Dodgers" and "Brooklyn Dodgers" redirect here. For the American football team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (football). For the Eastern Basketball Association team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball). Senior Vice President Tommy Lasorda said Thursday. Lasorda, the narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. at the Los Angeles Fire Department's ``Awards of Decoration'' luncheon, was speaking about the heroic actions in the worst air disaster in the department's history that killed the girl and three firefighters at Griffith Park. They were among the scores of firefighters honored Thursday at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or for the department's top personnel. ``Michael Butler, Michael McComb and Eric Reiner lost their lives while rescuing a little girl, Norma Vides-Anaya,'' Mayor Richard Riordan said. ''The people of Los Angeles will never forget that day. We're proud to honor their families today.'' The Fire Department awarded medals of valor valor a rodenticide no longer marketed because of toxicity in horses causing dehydration, abdominal pain, hindlimb weakness, inappetence, fishy smell in urine. Called also N-3-pyridyl methyl N1-p-nitrophenyl urea. to Robinson, Butler, McComb, Reiner and Firefighter Dennis Silgen, who survived the crash along with Robinson. ``My personal feeling is the people who really deserve the award are the widows,'' said Silgen, who helped secure Vides-Anaya before the crash. ''This is about all they have left.'' For helping in the rescue operation, the department also gave medals of valor to Capt. Alfred L. Poirier, apparatus operator Gary S. Matsubara, Firefighter Christopher Contreras and Firefighter David M. Sander. Awards of merit went to Firefighter Ricardo Najera and Engineer Chris M. Caropino. A medal of valor For other medals of the same name, see . The Medal of Valor (O't Ha'gvora, Hebrew: עיטור הגבורה) is the highest Israeli Military decoration. is awarded for performing an act of conspicuous heroism or bravery under extreme personal risk. An award of merit is given for taking conspicuous action in rendering aid during a lifesaving or life-threatening situation under circumstances that pose calculated risk. Other awards involving heroic actions in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. included: --Awards of merit to Firefighters Allen R. Skier and Jesse P. Ortiz for helping two victims without the benefit of physical cover during the Feb. 28, 1997, North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. and bank robbery. --Award of merit to Firefighters Todd I. Carb and Daniel P. Jordan for helping victims after the Aug. 10, 1999, shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center. --Awards of merit to Battalion Chief Robert J. De Feo and Firefighter Gregory S. Reynar for helping a driver to safety during flooding Feb. 7, 1993, in Laurel Canyon. --Awards of merit to Capt. Vance A. Boos and Firefighter Edward Salas for helping a police officer critically injured during a July 24, 1996, shooting by a suspect who led police on a high-speed chase. --Medals of valor to Firefighters Surgey H. Tomlinson IV and Richard J. Kirkwood and awards of merit to Capt. Ronald S. Lem, Capt. Bobby J. Mihlhauser, Engineers James R. Porter and Donald E. Witty, Capts. Thomas C. Moore and Timothy D. Wilson and Firefighters Edward A. Rivas, Theodore H. Mayeda, David T. Moorman, John E. Ruedy and Anthony E. Senior for heroic actions in the October 1996 ``Calabasas Entrapment'' fire. --Awards of merit to Firefighters Paul A. Shakstad and Glenn V. Smith and Capts. Keith E. Massey, Conrad C. Marcione and Timothy L. Quinn for heroic actions during a Feb. 3, 1998, swift water rescue in Mission Hills. --Medal of valor to Firefighter Jeffrey K. Taylor for saving a man on Jan. 14, 1995, from committing suicide off the Hansen Dam. --Medal of valor to apparatus operator Donald B. Reyes for performing CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac on an off-duty police officer injured during a Dec. 21, 1994, shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. between the officer and a shoe store robber in West Hills. --Award of merit to Battalion Chief Tony M. Varela for rescuing people trapped inside a crashed motor home on Nov. 3, 1999, in Santa Clarita minutes before it burst into flames. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Retired Firefighter Dennis Silgen received the medal of valor on Thursday for his role in a March 23, 1998 helicopter crash that killed four. (2) Los Angeles Firefighters were recognized for their heroic contributions at a luncheon downtown on Thursday. (3) Maria Butler, left, and Julie Bailey, widows of firefighters killed in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
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