On March 29, 2013, Officer Bram and Officer Lindaman responded to a call of a house on fire. When they arrived on scene they spoke with a mother who told them that her five children were still inside the burning house. The house was a very large, old, multi-story dwelling. Smoke was pouring from the entire house. Officer Bram and Lindaman ran into the smoke-filled house, located the children, and safely removed them from the residence. Some of the children were found sleeping on a bed in a room filled with the smoke from the fire.

Officer Justin Brandt In the early morning hours of July 22, 2012, Officer Brandt was on patrol. He began to hear gunfire and noticed a man armed with a pistol on a crowded sidewalk, a mere 20-30 feet away, shooting at another man. Officer Brandt exited his squad car, drew his sidearm, closed the distance to the gunman, and continually ordered the gunman to drop his weapon. The scene was loud and chaotic. A man yelled he had been shot. Another man came from out of the crowd and punched the gunman in the face. The gunman fell, but still held the pistol. Officer Brandt, now upon the gunman in the crowd, kicked the gunman in the back. The gunman dropped the pistol and was placed in handcuffs by Officer Brandt. The large crowd now grew hotile toward the gunman. Officer Brandt picked the gunman up and sprinted him off to Officer Brandt's squad car to protect the gunman from the unruly crowd. The time from when the first shot was fired until Officer Brandt deposited the gunman into the squad car for safety was a mere 51 seconds according to a recording of the incident captured by the squad car's video recorder.