The American Red Cross of Northern Ohio honors individuals who performed heroic acts of extraordinary courage. We recognize ordinary people who put themselves in harm’s way or have even risked their own lives to save or improve another life or lives.

Do you know someone who entered a burning home to rescue a trapped family? A passerby who pulled a drowning child to safety? A neighbor who administered CPR or abdominal thrusts to a total stranger? A dog that alerted its family to a fire?

If you do, we need your help identifying these local heroes!

Nominees must reside or work within the following counties: Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, Summit, Portage, Medina, Trumbull, Mahoning,  Columbiana, Henry, Fulton, Lucas, Monroe, Ottawa, Sandusky and Wood.

Please submit the information about the person or persons you’d like to nominate by completing the nomination form below.

The deadline for Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana Counties is June 1.

The deadline for Henry, Fulton, Lucas, Monroe, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Wood Counties is January 30. For all other counties, the deadline is January 31.

All submissions will be reviewed by local selection committees. All selected nominees will be honored at an award ceremony hosted by the local chapter in which the event took place.