{"id":144351,"date":"2023-05-05T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-letter-carriers-recognized-as-heroes-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T21:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:30:01","slug":"los-carteros-son-reconocidos-como-heroes-del-ano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/los-carteros-son-reconocidos-como-heroes-del-ano\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter Carriers Recognized as Heroes of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 5, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/&#8211; Letter carriers who protected a woman being pursued by an assailant, pulled residents from a burning home, found a missing child or saved a man having a health crisis are among those to be honored on <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 11<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgb0cbleft\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgb0cbleft\" title=\"National Association of Letter Carriers. \" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg\" alt=\"National Association of Letter Carriers. \" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Christine Cambizaca<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Torrington, CT<\/span>, just a month into her job, risked her own safety by protecting a bloodied and bruised woman, too frightened to speak, from a knife-wielding attacker. She is the 2022 National Hero of the Year. The Eastern Region Hero is <span class=\"xn-person\">Eric Smith<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Charleston, WV<\/span>, who braved intense heat and thick smoke to rescue two unconscious residents from a house consumed by fire. <span class=\"xn-person\">Darin Chew<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Sun City, AZ<\/span>, the Western Region Hero, used his Marine Corps CPR training to save an unconscious postal customer who was under a car and wasn&#8217;t breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Several other carriers also are being recognized as 2022 Heroes. They represent thousands of letter carriers who not only deliver the nation&#8217;s mail six or even seven days a week, but often assist in situations involving accidents, fires, crimes or health crises, or improve the communities in which they work.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Eric Beu<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Casey Ritchie<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Meagan Sperling<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Jeremiah Grant<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Oklahoma City<\/span>, winners of the Unit Citation Award, returned a 1-year-old boy to his father after investigating a car suspiciously abandoned in the middle of the street, engine running. The Central Region Hero, <span class=\"xn-person\">Sherri Baker<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Little Rock, AR<\/span>, tried to stop several assailants from shooting a man and then robbing him after he fell to the ground; she then focused on trying to save the victim. Baker takes solace, she says, in the fact that at least he did not die alone.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Anthony Picariello<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Philadelphia<\/span>, who underwent open-heart surgery as a child and whose newborn daughter needed surgery, spends much of his free time making holidays joyous for hospitalized children; he is the Humanitarian of the Year. <span class=\"xn-person\">Christopher Lippy<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Harrisburg, PA<\/span> is the Special Carrier Alert\u00a0winner; his alertness and his actions ended a mail-fraud scheme targeting an elderly couple on his route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Letter Carriers Heroes of the Year will be honored by NALC Executive Vice President <span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Barner<\/span> at a special luncheon at noon on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Thursday, May 11<\/span>, at the Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave. NW, <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span>. Because the pandemic prevented the prior two annual ceremonies from being held, the event also will recognize 2020 and 2021 Heroes winners.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3857874-1&amp;h=258197571&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fnalc.org%2Fheroes&amp;a=nalc.org%2Fheroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nalc.org\/heroes<\/a> for further information on the Heroes, including text and photos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntac\">******<\/p>\n<p>NALC represents letter carriers across the country. Its 293,000 members make it the largest of the four unions representing employees of the United States Postal Service. Founded by Civil War veterans in 1889, NALC is among the country&#8217;s oldest labor unions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3857874-1&amp;h=3232459374&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F353615%2Fnational_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F353615%2Fnational_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  National Association of Letter Carriers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 5, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/&#8211; Letter carriers who protected a woman being pursued by an assailant, pulled residents from a burning home, found a missing child or saved a man having a health crisis are among those to be honored on <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 11<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgb0cbleft\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%;text-align: left\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpgb0cbleft&quot; title=&quot;National Association of Letter Carriers. &quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144351"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144360,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144351\/revisions\/144360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}