By Sue Danielson
Apr 7, 2021
(Moline, IL) The Moline Police Department s honoring four of it s own, for their brave rescue from a house fire. Sergeant Derrick Cullison, Officer Andrew Compton, Officer Joshua McManus and Officer Cody Parmenter entered a burning home March 15th, and rescued a woman who was refusing to leave.
All four officers and the female resident were treated for smoke inhalation at the hospital and each made a full recovery.
The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police has awarded the four it s Medal of Valor for their heroic actions.
Chief Gault also presented the three officers and Sergeant Cullison with the Moline Police Department Life Saving Award for their actions that morning.
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.