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The award recognizes a rescue operation last winter when Koren and Beers worked to evacuate more than a dozen passengers off the Sandia Tram, who were stuck overnight in freezing temperatures.
Bernalillo County Undersheriff Larry Koren and Lt. Fred Beers were honored posthumously with Teledyne FLIR Defense's Life Saver Award for their helicopter rescue of 21 people stranded on a tram in January.