Jack Phillips, a 25-year-old senior wireless operator, also proved to be one of the many heroes during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. On the evening of April 14, 1912, Phillips was working through a backlog of personal messages from the passengers and crew. However, he and Harold Bride, a junior wireless officer, did pass on several messages about iceberg warnings to Captain Edward Smith.

As the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg , Phillips continued to work in the wireless room. When Bride came to take over from Phillips, Captain Smith entered and ordered Phillips to send out a distress signal, calling for assistance from nearby ships and providing the liner’s estimated position.

Both wireless officers worked tirelessly until 2:00 AM sending distress signals. Then Captain Smith informed them that they had done their duty and ordered them to abandon ship. While Bride took the opportunity to throw flotation devices into the water to help others, Phillips remained at his post in the wireless room sending distress signals until the final minute of the liner’s sinking.

Although Phillips managed to climb onto the upturned Lifeboat B, he sadly passed away and slipped into the water. Thankfully, Harold Bride survived the event. He died in 1956.

    Andriana,  Panagiotis ,  Aggeliki

                Casey Jones

  Casey Jones was a railroad engineer known for his speed who died in 1900, when he collided with another train. He was immortalized as an American folk hero.

  On April 30, 1900,  Casey Jones volunteered to work a double shift to cover for a fellow engineer who was ill. He had just completed a run from Canton, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, and was now faced with the task of returning on board Engine No. 1 headed southbound. Sam Webb, a fireman for Illinois Central, accompanied Jones on the journey. The train was originally running more than an hour and a half behind, and Jones, determined to arrive as scheduled, ran the steam locomotive at speeds nearing 100 miles per hour in an effort to make up the time.

   As Jones took a turn into Vaughan, Mississippi, Webb warned him that there was another train parked on the tracks ahead of them. As quickly as he could, Jones grabbed the brake with one hand and pulled the whistle with the other in an attempt to warn those around the train. Jones then turned to Webb and told him to jump to safety, all the while still trying to slow the train. The collision was brutal. All passengers on the train survived, with the exception of Casey Jones, who was struck in the throat while still holding one hand on the break and one hand on the whistle. 

Androniki

Italian priest Don Giuseppe Berardelli, who had been infected with COVID-19, chose to put others lives before his own by selflessly giving up his own ventilator to save the life 

of a younger person.

The 72-year-old, who made that ultimate sacrifice on March 15 2020, succumbed just several days later, died from the infection.

Giuseppe Berardelli, who had been a priest for 47 years, was serving as the Archpriest of Casnigo in the Diocese of Bergamo in northern Italy, one of the areas hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Berardelli had been suffering from a respiratory condition for some time, so his parish had previously purchased the breathing apparatus to help him cope with it.

News of his sacrifice has now gone viral on social media.

                                       Dora

On July 9th, Bridger Walker, a six year old child, saved his little sister's life by standing between her and a charging dog. The dog latched on to his cheek and he yelled at his sister to run away. When the dog realeased, he ran to his sibling so as to keep her safe. Then, he was taken immediately to hospital. When his father asked him why he stepped in front of the dog he answered that if someone had to die, he thought that it had to be himself. This action was absolutely heroic. 

                          Bridger Walker

Fotini 

Heroes without capes

Many people were killed on September 11th on 2001, when terrorists on board of 4 aircrafts commited murder-suicide in the USA. While buildings were collapsing, people were trying to save themselves and help each other. This attack though, turned many people into heroes. Two of them were the flight attendants ,who were on flight 11 the morning  this tragic event took place and called the american airlines grand manager in order to inform him about the plane being hijacked.

(Betty Ongs phone call : https://youtu.be/icfkIH3j-nk )

 The flight attendants, whose names were Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong , staying very calm, gave to the FBI important details about the terrorists appearances, seat numbers and names. This information later led to the identification of the hijackers. With much  bravery they kept calmness in the plane and helped whoever was injured. They stayed on their calls until nearly the moment their plane crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center, where they lost their lives while on duty.                            

     Elena 

                      Victoria Soto

Victoria Soto,27, was a teacher, who worked at Sandy Hook elementary school for five years. She died in a very young age while trying to save her students.

In December 15, 2012  a man holding a gun went into the school and started shooting. Victoria hid the kids in the closet. When the shooter walked into the class he asked her where the student were she lied to him and told him that they were at the gym. Unfortunately the kids were terrified and jumped out of the closet. 

Then the young teacher went quickly in front of the man, like a shield for the children and sacrificed herself.

A memorial service was held on December 15, and funeral services took place on December 19 at the Lordship Community Church.

                          Maro 

Chesley Burnett (born January 23, 1951) is an American retired Air Force fighter pilot and airline captain. He is best known for his role as pilot in command in the 2009 ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan after both engines were disabled by a bird strike; all 155 people aboard survived. He served as the co-chairman, along with first officer Jeffrey Skiles (his co-pilot during Flight 1549), of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)'s Young Eagles youth introduction-to-aviation program from 2009 to 2013.

Sullenberger retired from US Airways after 30 years as a commercial pilot on March 3, 2010. In May of the following year, he was hired by CBS News as an aviation and safety expert.

Sullenberger is the co-author, with Jeffrey Zaslow, of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, a memoir of his life and of the events surrounding Flight 1549, published in 2009 by HarperCollins. His second book, Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders, was published in May 2012. He was ranked second in Time's Top 100 Most Influential Heroes and Icons of 2009, after Michelle Obama.

The chernobyl disaster caused an innumerable amount of deaths and damage which could have been even bigger if it weren't for those three selfless men, Alexei ananenko, valeri Bezpalov and Boris Boranov.A huge piece of radioactive carbon was about to melt in a big tank of water.This would have caused a really strong eruption which could fire an explosion of tons of radioactive material in the air which would have made the disaster 10 times worse.

              The heroes of chernobyl

someone had to empty this tank to save thousands of people's lives,  three men we mentioned before offered to do this enen though they knew how dangerous this was and the possibilities were they would die.after a while, they died due to the amount of radioactivity  they received but we owe them gratitude and respect.because despite the fact that they knew what would have happened, they sacrificed their lives and indirectly saved millions of european civillians 

Andriana &

Mariza 

PC Keith Palmer was killed after stopping a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack.

He died from wounds he received in the attack and was posthumously awarded the George Medal - the second highest award for gallantry "not in the face of the enemy".

The 48-year-old had worked for the Metropolitan Police for 16 years.

Nick 

The Greek air force pilot, Nikos Parousis, finding a fault in the Mirage 2000E, in which he was flying over Oropos, at the last moment and without abandoning it, prevented it from falling to school by flying it away, where it crashed with him.

On November 4, 1998, the fatal Mirage, took off at 11.20 in the morning from Tanagra Airport in the direction of the Aegean for an interception exercise. During the flight, Nikos found a defect in the control system.

The pilot Parousis, realizing that the situation was out of control and seeing a school in front of him, according to eyewitnesses, made desperate efforts and prevented him from falling into the school.

However, he preferred to sacrifice himself for the sake of the salvation of many and, obeying the oath he gave, he piloted the fatal aircraft out of the residential area and crashed with it…

Maya 

<< A train Brakeman saved an entire town!>>

Let's travel back to 1907, to the Pilares cooper mine outside Nacozari , Mexico. To burrow deep into the mines , people needed a whole lot of explosive force and this came in the form of dynamite and blasting powder which was delivered by train . One such train was chugging its way to the mines on schedule, on November 7,with the only problem being that the roof had somehow caught fire.

The train should have had some measures in place to prevent that from happening and definitely should have had the means for putting out fires once they start but the engineer on this day just had one instruction for the crew : " Jump for your lives "  Everyone obeyed except for the brakeman who realized that letting the train roll into a population center and explode wasn't the ideal solution to this particular trolley problem .So the brakeman stayed abroad.

He threw open the throttle to get  the locomotive  moving as fast and as far as possible. When the fire reached  the powder and the train blew up, he wasn't totally out in the wildness and the ensuing destruction of some barracks did kill a dozen or so laborers. But the explosion, which was big enough to shatter every window in town, was far enough away that he had saved  hundreds of lives . Then again ,of cource this man was ready to lay his life down to save others. His name was Jesus Gracia . 

                   -Anna Maria 

When Nigerian-born Godwin Ajala first arrived in the United States, he was forced to endure various poorly paid jobs until he secured a permanent position as an access control officer at the World Trade Center. His role required him to walk various floors and ride the elevators at the two towers to secure the building and provide assistance for small emergencies.

When he wasn’t working at the towers, he was preparing to take the New York State bar exam.

Godwin Ajala

When the planes hit the World Trade Center, 33-year-old Ajala selflessly helped thousands of people to evacuate the towers. He reportedly held the door open for people as they fled the building, and he guided others out of the towers to safety. Sadly, he later succumbed to exhaustion and fell into a coma, passing away the following Sunday.

Dimosthenis 

                                   PATRICK GALLAHAN

A Boston firefighter saved a mother and a child in a

 dramatic rescue from a burning house in Roxbury.

Α desperate mother is seen lowering her child from a  window to firefighter Patrick Callahan on a ladder below. The firefighter saved the child first and after the mother. The distraught mother later on the ground, among the fire engines, runs to find her child. Ηer child is held safe in THE fireFIGHTER'S arms.

“Just getting the baby down, that was my priority."said patrick.

 "thanks to Patrick GALLAHAN, MY BABY AND I ARE

 SAFE."SAID THE MOTHER.

 UNFORTUNATELY, Up to 10 people were left homeless by the fire.

The cause of the fire was UNKNOWN.

     CHristos 

Travis Atkins was a solder in the United States Army.

he born on December 9 1975 and grew up in Bozeman, Montana. Atkins rejoined the Army in December 2005 as part of the 10th Mountain Division.

On June 1, 2007, Atkins’ unit was doing route clearance in the town of Abu Samak, southwest of Baghdad, when they noticed two suspicious men trying to cross the road they were securing. Having heard reports that there were insurgents nearby, Atkins and the soldiers in his Humvee yelled at the pair, who started acting erratically.

Atkins had his Humvee pull over. The staff sergeant tried to search one of the men, but he resisted, so the two started fighting. That’s when Atkins realized the man had a suicide vest under his clothes. A short while later, the insurgent found the trigger.

Without pausing, Atkins bear-hugged the man from behind, threw him to the ground and pinned him there, shielding his fellow soldiers who were only a few feet away. 

Atkins died from the blast, but his quick thinking and selflessness saved the lives of three other soldiers, one of whom shot and killed the second insurgent before he could detonate another explosive vest.

He awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 27, 2019.

Nirja Banot

It has been many years since an air hostess, called "Nirja Banot" died during a flιght to save passengers from hijackers.

It is claimed that Nirja was so kind a woman and she had got into flιghts before the day she died. Just before the flιght before the day she died. Just before the flιght starts some people got into the airplane illegally threating pilots that if they wouldn' t go to Cyprus the would be killed. Everyone was shocked but pilots immediately got out of the plane caring only about themselves and leaving so many passengers behind.

However, only Nirja decided to stay with the passengers and tried to show them how to quit the plane. She promissed that she would' t leave the plane till every passenger was safe. Finally, while she was helping them a man shoot her as a result she was killed.

Eventually, no passengers died at the plane. Only five people got injured but now they are fine. Nobody doubts how brave Nirja Banot was and her kind personality.

                                                                                        Dimitra 

                                                                                         Eva

Deputy Sheriff Adam Gibson

Age: 31                            

Tour: 6 years                                                        

Cause: Gunfire

Weapon: Gun Unknown type    Offender: Shot and killed

                                                     Elias 

                                                     Sofoklis 

The vehicle became disabled when it entered the state fair parking lot at 1600 Exposition Boulevard and the man remained inside. Deputies used a bean bag round to break out the vehicle's back window so they could see inside. K9 Riley was then deployed through the window by his handler in an attempt to apprehend the subject. When K9 Riley was inside of the vehicle the man opened fire, fatally wounding both K9 Riley and Deputy Gibson. A second deputy was also shot and wounded.
Other deputies on scene returned fire and killed the subject.Deputy Gibson was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for six years. He is survived by his wife and 9-month-old child.

The vehicle became disabled when it entered the state fair parking lot at 1600 Exposition Boulevard and the man remained inside. Deputies used a bean bag round to break out the vehicle's back window so they could see inside. K9 Riley was then deployed through the window by his handler in an attempt to apprehend the subject. When K9 Riley was inside of the vehicle the man opened fire, fatally wounding both K9 Riley and Deputy Gibson. A second deputy was also shot and wounded.
Other deputies on scene returned fire and killed the subject.Deputy Gibson was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for six years. He is survived by his wife and 9-month-old child.

                     Matheos Mantzios

The man who lost his life, saving one.

A 33-year-old firefighter, Mattheos Mantzios, tragically lost his life in the line of duty on Friday night, when he attempted to rescue the life of a 44-year-old woman who was trapped in a flaming building in Paleo Faliro.

The fire broke out late at night in the ground floor of a plumbing and heating goods store in Paleo Faliro and quickly spread throughout the building due to explosions caused by acetylene gas canisters in the store. The Fire Brigade dispatched 43 firefighters and 16 vehicles to tackle the fire.

Due to the explosions, the elderly mother of the store owner was trapped on the first floor, while the owner’s 44-year-old wife was trapped on the second floor. Mantzios and a colleague of his entered the flaming building managed to rescue the elderly woman from the first floor, before proceeding to the second.

About two hours later the firefighters managed to set the fire under control, but unfortunately, the 33-year-old firefighter succumbed to the thick smoke and did not manage to make it out of the flaming building on time. His body was found on a balcony, near the body of the 44-year-old woman.

                                             Katerina -Evelina                                                                                                        

         BENJAMIN CLARK

Benjamin Keefe Clark didn’t serve as a police officer or firefighter on September 11, 2001. He was working as a chef, prepping meals for those at the Fiduciary Trust Company on the 96th floor offices in the South Tower. When the plane hit the building, he didn’t try to escape the disaster himself. Instead, he took the steps to guide others to safety.

Everyone in his department as well as in the 96th floor offices evacuated the building immediately but Benjamin saved hundreds of lives. For example, once they reached on the 78th floor, he reportedly assisted a woman in a wheelchair. Despite his undeniable heroism, de did not survive the tragic event.

 Vera - Panagiota 

Alan Bannon (Firefighter)

On April 6, 2010 a tragic incident took place at Shirley Towers in Southampton, Hampshire, England. The fire at the Shirley Towers started when curtains in the lounge of the flat caught fire from being on top of an uplighter lamp (light fitting.) Emergency crews were called. The fire response teams were confused by the complex layout of the building and of the flat itself. The firefighters had difficulties fighting the fire. The flat was very smoky with zero visibility and the flat rapidly became very hot - more than 1,000°C. 

The firefighters tried to escape through the flat's fire exit on the 11th floor. Two escaping firefighters needed hospital treatment for burns.

Two firefighters, Alan Bannon and James Shears were overcome by sudden exposure to intense heat and died at the top landing of the flat. The escaping firefighters got tangled in cables that fell from the roof, both inside and outside the flat, after the heat from the fire melted the plastic trunking they were contained in. After this tragedy, a change is being made to the British Standard regulation requiring electrical cables to be mounted in metal trunking instead of plastic.

Alan Bannon was a natural and popular leader, always trying to assist others in achieving things they didn't believe that they could do. His skill and passion led him to become a firefighter at Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service in 2001. Alan was a loved family man and dedicated dad who always put others before himself. 

KONSTANTINOS 

LIEUTENANT PHYSICIAN FOKAS - ANGELOS 

Fokas was born in Serres in 1886. His family was prominent in Serres

with participation in the Macedonian Struggle and paid a heavy price

with the kidnapping and murder of his brother Nestor by the Bulgarians.

He received a Ph.D. degree from the Medical School of the University of

Athens in 1916 and in the same year he was named Second Lieutenant

Physician reservist.

The sudden and brutal attack of the Turks initially brought confusion in

the task force. However, the heroic defense of our soldiers quickly

demeaned the Turks momentum. However, only when all the Turkish

forces were involved in the battle and the danger of decapitation and

cutting the escape route of our forces was visible, a retreat was ordered.

It began from the 2nd Battalion which received the greatest pressure.

Fokas, at that time, was in the operating room and was ordered to

abandon his post. But he, according to the testimonies of his comrades,

explicitly ruled out this possibility by saying that he would not leave the

injured soldiers helpless and alone.

He believed that his opponents would respect his humanity and his

vocation. But in the souls of the Turks there was nothing but hatred

against the Greeks that Kemal had infused.

As the Turks were

accustomed to acts of violence (the Armenian massacre had preceded

the Great War), they did not hesitate to exterminate the helpless

wounded, while Fokas himself was massacred.

KENDRICK CASTILLO

Kendrick Castillo, 18, pinned a gunman to the wall before he was fatally shot in the attack at STEM School Highlands Ranch.

Two other students wrestled the gun from the shooter's hand and subdued him. Authorities said their acts of bravery helped minimize the bloodshed from the attack, which killed Castillo and left eight others wounded.

"We're going to hear about very heroic things that have taken place at the school," Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.

"To find he went down as a hero, I'm not surprised. That's exactly who Kendrick was," said Baccara president Rachel Short.

"What I saw yesterday was the absolute best of people," his close friend said.


George 

'Imia- a crisis in the Aegean waters' by                        Dimitris

Imia 1996 - January 31: Greece wakes up with the news that three of its young men lost their lives in the sea area near Imia, when the helicopter they were riding in crashed.The official view was that "he fell due to bad weather and loss of pilot orientation".

The cold Aegean Sea embraced the three members of the crew, Lieutenant Commander Christodoulos Karathanasis, Co-Commander Lieutenant Panagiotis Vlachakos and the radar pilot Chief Hector Gialopsos.

The Imia Crisis left behind the "National Bitterness", the three dead of the helicopter and gray areas in the Aegean.

Various opinions have been expressed about the causes of the helicopter crash, such as that it crashed due to bad weather and loss of pilot orientation (Vertigo) or that the helicopter was shot down by either the Turkish Navy or the Turkish commandos on the island. The real cause of the fall was hidden in order to end the crisis and not lead the two countries to a generalized conflict or even to war.

Frank Foley wouldn’t be most people’s idea of a typical British spy or hero. After all, he was reportedly small and a little potbellied. He also wore round glasses, so he appeared almost the opposite of James Bond. Yet, according to Sir Alex Younger, the current head of MI6, Foley was “a consummately effective intelligence officer.”

After Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of World War II, he went undercover as a passport control officer for the British embassy in Berlin. As he was fully aware of the poor treatment the Jews received from the Nazis, Foley decided to take action by forging passports and altering visas to help Jewish people escape Hitler’s rule.

Although he lacked diplomatic immunity, Foley even entered various Nazi concentration camps to issue travel documents and visas. Due to his heroic actions, he is believed to have rescued more than 10,000 men, women, and children in Nazi Germany.

George 

 Tyler Doohan

In his final moments, 8 years old Tyler Doohan was staying at the home of relatives in the nearby town of Penfield on Sunday night when he noticed a fire in the single-wide trailer. As firefighters and sheriff's deputies responded to 4:45 a.m. emergency call, Tyler was able to wake six other people in the small trailer, including two more children, ages 4 and 6.

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"In bravely and selflessly giving his own life, he was able to save the lives of six others -- and he truly is a hero."

Kleoniki 

MILWAUKEE -- First responders from across the state came together Saturday, Feb. 8 to remember the life of a Milwaukee firefighter. Darrin Jones, 52, passed away in his sleep on Feb. 1."This was shocking and saddening to us," said David Votsis of the Milwaukee Fire Department. "This is a very tough loss."First responders, family, and friends remembered Jones' life one week after his death. The veteran firefighter served on the Milwaukee Fire Department for 29 years."He was always happy," said Votsis. "He was always go lucky. He always brightened up the room, and we're trying to carry on his spirit."
Dozens of emergency responders from across the state showed support at New Testament Church in Milwaukee.
"This is a tough day," said Votsis. "This has been an extremely tough week for the Milwaukee Fire Department."

Jones' passing is considered a line-of-duty death -- the cause likely stemming from health issues or chemicals Jones was exposed to while on the job."Nobody leaves this physically or emotionally better than when they came on this job," Votsis said. "We know that this is a risk. That doesn't make it any easier."Jones was described as someone who brightened everyone's day, who was always positive, with a larger-than-life personality."He had a humor about him," said Votsis. "He had a respect and a grace about him."After the funeral service, a large procession for Jones made its way to Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield, where he was laid to rest."He always did his job with dignity," Votsis said. "He carried his life with dignity and class that just cannot be denied."
Jones left behind a wife and three children.
Officials with the Milwaukee Fire Department said they were beyond grateful for all the support.

Anna Maria Bohori

The fight against Ibrahim

When Ibrahim Pasha invaded the Peloponnese in 1825 (with an army consisted mostly by Egyptians), Papaflessas was still Minister of Internal Affairs. Realizing the great danger the nation was facing with Ibrahim's invasion, he demanded the government grant amnesty to Kolokotronis and other political prisoners. This demand was refused and he appeared before the Executive Branch and Parliament to tell them he would go to Messinia alone to organize a resistance against Ibrahim, determined to return victorious or die in the battlefield.

George Finlay writes in his book “The arhimandrite Daikaios (Pappa Phlessas) was still Minister of the Interior. He was the most unprincipled man of the party of the Moreot chiefs. The universal indignation now expressed at his conducts convinced him that it would be dangerous for him to remain in Nauplia, where his licentious life and gross peculation pointed him out as the first object of popular vengeance, and the scapegoat for the sins of his colleagues. The arhimandrite was destitute of private virtue and political honesty, but he was a man of activity and courage. Perhaps too, at this decisive moment a sense of shame urged him to cancel his previous misdeeds by an act of patriotism. He asked permission of the government to march against the Egyptians, boasting that he would vanquish Ibrahim or perish in the copmbat”.

Papaflessas gathered 3,000 poorly armed men and went to the province of Pylia, Messinia, searching for the best spot to face Ibrahim's army coming out of the city of Pylos. He selected the hills of Maniaki in order for him to have a better view of the enemy's movements and there Papaflessas established three lines of defence. On June 1, 1825, Ibrahim's forces led by well-trained French officers attacked Papaflessas' defence lines. Most of the Greek troops lost their nerve, abandoned their positions, and fled. Papaflessas continued to fight the Egyptians with a small force of 800-1000 men loyal to him and his cause.

Papaflessas knew that in choosing to face Ibrahim he would die on the battlefield. Papaflessas's defenses were ultimately broken by the heavy bombardment of Ibrahim's artillery and the repeated attacks of his infantry and cavalry. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting ended with the death of the last defender.

After Papaflessa's death from a bullet in the chest, Ibrahim ordered that his body be cleaned of blood and dirt and tied to a tree. After a few minutes of looking at his foe, Ibrahim walked up to the corpse and kissed it on the cheek as a sign of extreme respect. In speaking of Papaflessas after his death, it is said that Ibrahim told his officers: "If Greece had ten heroes like him, it would not have been possible for me to undertake the military campaign against the Peloponnese".                               

Apostolos