POCATELLO — Black smoke hung over Kortnie Balls’ head as she army crawled through the burning home. She held her jacket over her mouth and nose, trying to avoid breathing in more smoke then she already had. This house, a mobile home in Pocatello, didn’t belong to her. She didn’t even know the layout. Balls […]
Kortnie Balls is being awarded the Carnegie Medal, considered North America s highest civilian honor for heroism, for attempting to save a man from a burning building one year ago.