{"id":63944,"date":"2018-09-20T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-letter-carriers-recognized-as-heroes-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:46:03","slug":"carteros-reconocidos-como-heroes-del-ano-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/carteros-reconocidos-como-heroes-del-ano-5\/","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\">Sept. 20, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Letter carriers who rescued people from raging house fires, saved numerous <span class=\"xn-location\">Houston<\/span>-area residents from Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s raging flood waters and cornered a burglar who had terrified a young girl, are among those to be honored <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 26<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg9a20left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg9a20left\" title=\"National Association of Letter Carriers.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"National Association of Letter Carriers.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Jason Moss<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Tampa, FL<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-person\">John Sylvain<\/span>, an Army veteran from <span class=\"xn-location\">Fort Lauderdale, FL<\/span>, who each risked their lives battling heat and smoke to save two residents apiece trapped by fires in their homes in separate incidents that were virtually mirror images, are the National Heroes of the Year \u2013 the first time judges have selected two winners. <span class=\"xn-person\">Ebony Nobles<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Houston<\/span>, an Afghan war veteran who in just her first few weeks delivering mail coordinated rescues of residents, rescued others herself as an Army reservist, led a clothing drive and delivered food to shelters, is the National Humanitarian of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Several other carriers also are being recognized as 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.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Monteleone<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Westchester County, NY<\/span>, a Navy Cold War veteran who comforted the young girl while forcing the burglar to stay put until police arrived, is the Eastern Region Hero of the Year. <span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon Franklin<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Waterford, MI<\/span>, who ran to reach a runaway Jeep whose driver had fallen unconscious and then in acrobatic fashion dove headfirst through the window to navigate the vehicle to safety as it neared a school zone, is Central Region Hero of the Year. <span class=\"xn-person\">Antonio Colon<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Chino, CA<\/span>, bravely responded to a 90-year-old woman&#8217;s cries that she was being assaulted; he is the Western Hero.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Naseem Elias<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Sterling Heights, MI<\/span>, who speaks six languages and whose fluent Arabic helped save a resident&#8217;s baby, will be honored with the Special Carrier Alert award. And three other <span class=\"xn-location\">Detroit<\/span>-area active and retired letter carriers \u2013 <span class=\"xn-person\">Dennis Denham<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Steven Futach<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Joseph Pomante<\/span> \u2013 will receive the Unit Citation award for coming to the aid of an elderly resident experiencing a medical crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Letter Carriers Heroes of the Year will be honored by NALC President <span class=\"xn-person\">Fredric Rolando<\/span> at a special luncheon at noon on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, Sept. 26<\/span>, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW, <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington D.C.<\/span> Go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nalc.org\/heroes\" rel=\"nofollow\">nalc.org\/heroes<\/a> for further information on the Heroes, including text and pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntac\">******<\/p>\n<p>NALC represents letter carriers across the country. Its 280,000 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.<b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg\" 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\">Sept. 20, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Letter carriers who rescued people from raging house fires, saved numerous <span class=\"xn-location\">Houston<\/span>-area residents from Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s raging flood waters and cornered a burglar who had terrified a young girl, are among those to be honored <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 26<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg9a20left\" dir=\"ltr\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg9a20left&quot; title=&quot;National Association of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63944","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=63944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}