Firefighter Rueda is Courage and Valor Award recipient

摘要

Firefighter Anthony Rueda, of the Milwaukee (WI) Fire Department, is the 2009 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award recipient. Rueda was cited for saving the life of Milwaukee Fire Captain Theodore Stribling.rnStribling and Rueda responded to a working house fire at 2:47 a.m. on May 22, 2008. The two, masked up and advancing the line, proceeded cautiously on all fours, since Rueda had noted to the captain that the floor felt "squishy." As they crawled across the floor, the wooden I-beam trusses supporting the floor gave way; Stribling and Rueda fell into the burning basement below.