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By Keep Vermont Safe,
Trooper Michelle Archer of the Vermont State Police has been awarded the “Carnegie Medal for Heroism” for rescuing an 8-year-old girl from an icy pond in Cambridge in December 2023.
Archer is one of just 17 individuals in the U.S. and Canada to receive the award this year. According to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the medal recognizes people who risk serious injury or death in extraordinary acts to save others.
On December 17, 2023, Archer was on patrol when she responded to a 911 call about a child who had fallen through thin ice. She arrived on scene in under five minutes, removed her duty gear, and swam into near-freezing water to rescue the child using a flotation device.
Trooper Keith Cote helped carry the girl to a waiting ambulance. The child survived and made a full recovery.
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Well, done and well deserved. If we allowed them to do their jobs properly, we would be saving more people instead of just dogs. Vermont has some of the finest State Troopers around.
Congratulation Trooper Michelle Archer, Hey Director Colonel Birmingham, how about giving trooper Archer another stripe or two…… well desreved !!!
This is an example of tax dollars being well spent and not frivolously.
A hint for Rep. Laura Sibilia (I-Dover).
This is a person who has their priorities straight, unlike Chittenden County Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky.
Congratulations to Trooper Michelle Archer. Thank you.
Congratulations officer in blue 💙 🇺🇸💙
Some good news here in Vermont for a change!!
Trooper Archer certainly deserves the award! Plunging into ice water to save someone is a genuinely self-less act.
I would suspect that many other troopers and police officers, fire fighters and EMT’s might show similar bravery given the opportunity.
But the reality is that Trooper Archer actually did risk her life. Well done, Trooper.