On August 8, 2001, Sgt. Hausman and Cpl. Vargas were traveling southbound on State Route 79 when they saw a plume of black smoke. As they drove to the smoke, they saw a vehicle engulfed in flames alongside the roadway. Sgt. Hausman and Cpl. Vargas ran to the burning vehicle and found two paraplegic females trapped inside. They reached into the burning vehicle and pulled both females, who otherwise would have had no avenue to escape from the vehicle, to safety. Thus Sgt. Hausman and Cpl. Vargas saved the women’s lives by placing themselves in grave danger and pulling the women from the blazing vehicle.

 

In August 2007, Det. Hughey, who was then a patrol deputy in the area of San Manuel, responded to a domestic disturbance. As he was arriving, the female involved in the call drove away from responding deputies. After a short pursuit leading back to the original scene, the female stopped the vehicle and Det. Hughey approached. He very quickly assessed the situation and determined the female was injured. She had shot herself in the neck with a small rifle and was bleeding profusely from the wound. Det. Hughey covered the wound with his hand to get the bleeding under control until the paramedics could arrive. This person’s life was saved due to Det. Hughey’s quick action because she would have bled to death unassisted.

 

On Dec. 15, 2007, Posse Member Douglas Ewen was on a training patrol with Deputy Mark Terry when they responded to a call of a possible suicide. They discovered the garage door open and there was a heavy odor of car exhaust. Deputy Terry immediately began CPR on the adult male while Posse Member Ewen tried to console the woman, who was hysterical. The woman went around the car to the door to the house and discovered her four-year-old son unconscious by the door. He had apparently followed her into the garage when she went entered. Posse Member Ewen took the boy from the woman and carried him outside the garage and began checked his vital signs. The boy was unconscious, but had a pulse and was moaning. Ewen began pressing on his chest to assist him in breathing while calling him by name. After a couple of minutes, Deputy Terry came over to examine him, breathed a couple of breaths into the boy’s mouth, and when he was done, the boy let out a heavy sigh and began breathing normally.