VALLEY RESCUERS HONORED AS HEROES TWO POLICEMEN, FIREFIGHTER SAVED SUICIDAL WOMAN.Byline: HARRISON SHEPPARD Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO -- Two 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. police officers and one firefighter were among those honored with the state's highest law-enforcement medal Tuesday for risking their own lives to pull a suicidal woman off the edge of a six-story balcony last year. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] presented the officers with the Public Safety Officer 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. . The medal was also presented to a 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. County Sheriff's deputy and an Oxnard police officer who each killed armed suspects in separate gunfights. "These men showed extraordinary 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. and courage going above and beyond the call of duty to protect their fellow Californians and preserve public safety," Schwarzenegger said. On Jan. 5, 2006, Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Officers Mark
Mireles and Edwin Marron mar·ron n. See Spanish chestnut. [French; see maroon2.] of the West Valley division were among police and firefighters responding to a call about a distraught woman considering jumping from a building in the 15700 block of Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. . The two found the woman on the sixth floor squeezing underneath a balcony rail as she saw them approach. Mireles grabbed the woman by her leg, but she continued to slip over the edge as her sweat suit began ripping -- pulling Mireles down with her. Marron jumped in and grabbed his partner, but he too was slipping until Firefighter Paul Schori joined them, grabbing Mireles by his belt and helping pull all of them to safety. "It happened so fast," Marron said. "At the end afterwards, we went back and looked at what we were doing -- and that was the most scared I'd ever been." Also receiving a medal was Los Angeles sheriff's Deputy Corey Morning, who engaged in a gunfight with an armed suspect. In October 2006, Morning responded to a report of an assault victim in Cerritos and after arriving at the scene, he was fired at by a nearby gunman. Morning took cover, but then left his refuge to return fire and was able to kill the shooter. Officer Michael Purdy of the Oxnard police was honored for his role in a July 2006 traffic stop in which his sergeant was shot in the face by an armed suspect. Purdy was wounded in both legs and the forearm, but returned fire and killed the suspect with a shot to the chest. harrison.sheppard(at)dailynews.com (916) 446-6723 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Los Angeles police Officer Edwin Marron, who helped save a a suicidal woman and his partner, receives a Medal of Valor award from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday. William Foster/Governor's Office |
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