During Thursday’s ceremony, Chapoton praised everyone who was on the scene, thanking everyone from his family, civilians on the scene and law enforcement who assisted.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Last May, Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Chapoton was returning home with his family after spending the day whale watching near Seward, when the group witnessedWithout a second thought, Chapoton got out of the car and leapt into action to help save the passengers who were inside the burning vehicles.
Alongside civilians and first responders who were at the scene just seven miles out of Seward, Chapoton was able to help extract three of the passengers who we trapped inside one of the burning vehicles. One woman did die in the crash.“You don’t see a whole lot of these,” Major General Brian Eifler, with the U.S. Army, said. “In my career, this is the second time I’ve seen it in the unit that I’ve been in and I have been in for 31 years.
“I am very humbled, I am very appreciative but there was a lot of people in that effort. It wasn’t just me,” Chapoton said.
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