Lt. John Vanderstar and Brendan Gaffney will be honored for their heroic rescues in separate incidents.
Friday, January 3, 2025 5:41PM FDNY firefighters Lt. John Vanderstar and Brendan Gaffney will receive the Medal of Valor from President Joe Biden on Friday. 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 self-sacrifice in combat and the Medal of Valor to first responders who put their own lives at risk to save others. Lt.
John Vanderstar, an FDNY firefighter, is receiving the Medal of Valor for his heroics back in 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 bedroom. Separately, FDNY firefighter Brendan Gaffney is also being honored after rushing into a burning building in Inwood twice, first to save an unconscious child, and again, to save a pregnant woman. President Biden will also award six others the Medal of Valor, including the law enforcement officials who responded to a shooter who killed six people on March 27, 2023, at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, and Sgt. Tu Tran of the Lincoln, Nebraska, Police Department. Tran swam 30 feet (9 meters) into a frigid pond to rescue a woman from a submerging vehicle
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