{"id":256451,"date":"2025-09-26T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256451\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:56:11","slug":"red-cross-23rd-real-heroes-awards-at-uss-midway-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256451\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross 23rd Real Heroes Awards at USS Midway Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Red-Cross-Hero.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Red-Cross-Hero.jpg\" alt=\"Red Cross, Hero Awars\" class=\"wp-image-325616\" style=\"width:809px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>American Red Cross of San Diego and Imperial Counties Real Heroes Awards statues (Photo courtesy of the Red Cross)<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross of San Diego and Imperial Counties will honor a collection of local heroes Friday during an awards ceremony at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midway.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USS Midway Museum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/life\/2025\/06\/23\/nominate-a-local-hero-red-cross-seeks-community-submissions-for-23rd-annual-real-heroes-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 23rd annual Real Heroes Awards<\/a> will recognize eight individuals and organizations \u201cthat embody the mission and spirit of the Red Cross by saving lives and creating safer, stronger and more resilient communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s honorees include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobbi Brink, founder of the Lions Tigers &amp; Bears animal sanctuary in Alpine;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dash Menolascino, a 13-year-old boy who saved three of his brothers and their family puppy from a house fire in Poway;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Baum, a San Diego man who has donated platelets nearly 100 times in four years;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Baxter, an Encinitas man whose brother suffered cardiac arrest while surfing, was revived by Baxter, and made a full recovery;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gilbert Gonzalez, a Navy chief damage controlman who helped neighbors escape the chaos of May\u2019s plane crash into the Murphy Canyon military housing community;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Resource Access Program, an initiative of the San Diego Fire- Rescue Department and Falck Mobile Health Corp, which is being recognized for \u201cmaking a profound impact on the lives of the city\u2019s most vulnerable\u201d;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Cooke, a local U.S. Coast Guard emergency medical technician who responded to a boating accident off the coast of Peru after a crew member suffered a major spinal injury;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Qualcomm for its donations to support the local Red Cross chapter and $150,000 to help California Wildfire relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross says nominations for the Real Heroes awards are accepted year-round. More information is available at redcross.org\/SanDiego\/RealHeroes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Red Cross of San Diego and Imperial Counties Real Heroes Awards statues (Photo courtesy of the Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[135001,5229,1582,276,9869,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,55255],"class_list":{"0":"post-256451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-3rd-annual-real-heroes-awards","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-red-cross","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-uss-midway-museum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115271428502106410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}