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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