By DENES HUSTY III • dhusty@news-press.com • September 24, 2010
Investigators for a nonprofit foundation are searching for James Short Jr., who risked his life pulling an ailing neighbor from his burning Cape Coral apartment moments before the man’s oxygen machine exploded. If Short, 52, is found, officials for the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission will consider giving him a medal and $5,000 for saving David Johnston Sr., said Jeffrey A. Dooley, investigations manager for the Pittsburgh-based agency.
But Short is nowhere to be found, Dooley said.
“We’ve mailed him a letter. It was returned as undeliverable. There was no forwarding address,” Dooley said. He said his investigators have checked with police and conducted records searches, all to no avail.
Dooley said it’s not often that his investigators can’t track down a medal nominee.
“We do our best,” he said.
The organization issues about 100 medals a year to heroes throughout the United States and Canada, Dooley said.
A search for Short by The News-Press was also unsuccessful. http://www.news-press.com/article/20100924/NEWS0101/100924066/1075/Cape-Coral-hero-can-t-be-found-
WOW!!! It does take a great and special person to go into a burning building or home . That's one big reason we should take care of our fire dept. and police dept. We need to cut expenses in Cape Coral BUT
if you think anybody normally will save you, that's a gamble i don't want to take . Rick Swift
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