Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: March 1, 2012
• Invested on: October 12, 2012

John-Paul Bacon, M.B.
Constable Peter Christopher Crouse, M.B.
Jonathan Tyler Hillgren, M.B.
Constable Franco D. Pittui, M.B.
Medal of Bravery

On November 24, 2009, John-Paul Bacon and Tyler Hillgren rescued a man from a burning apartment, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Messrs Bacon and Hillgren heard the fire alarm and saw smoke coming from the bottom of the victim's door. They kicked down the door and found the victim unconscious on a couch which had caught fire. They grabbed the man and pulled him out to the fire escape, where others tried to revive him. Messrs. Bacon and Hillgren ran back inside the apartment to extinguish the fire while Ontario Provincial Police constables Peter Crouse and Franco Pittui crawled through the thick, black smoke to search for other residents. Sadly, the victim did not survive.