Four police officers receive valor award for saving woman from burning building
MOLINE, Illinois (Quad-City Times) — Four Moline police officers received a Valor Award from the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police on Tuesday for saving a woman from a burning building, according to a news release from the Fraternal Order of Police.
Sergeant Derrick Cullison and officers Joshua McManus, Andrew Compton and Cody Parmenter responded to an arson call at 3:30 a.m. March 15. The officers arrived first and rescued one woman, who was uncooperative.
All four officers suffered smoke inhalation and were treated at UnityPoint-Trinity Hospital in Rock Island.
“Thanks to the heroic actions of these four officers, no lives were lost in an early morning arson fire that could easily have become a tragedy,” said FOP State Lodge President Chris Southwood in the release. Southwood presented the awards in Moline on Tuesday, April 6.