FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - A soldier stationed at Fort Drum in northern New York is being honored by the Canadian government for rescuing more than two dozen passengers from a burning charter bus after it was rear-ended on an upstate highway in 2011.
The Watertown Daily Times (https://bit.ly/1lIPUwL ) that Staff Sgt. Jacob Perkins of Mountain Grove, Mo., will receive the Medal of Bravery from Canada’s governor general during a ceremony Thursday in Ottawa.
Perkins was headed home on leave in July 2011 when he saw a tractor-trailer hit the rear of a bus on the Thruway in central New York. The bus was taking a group from Ontario, Canada to New York City.
Perkins pulled 26 passengers from the burning bus. All 52 on board survived. The truck driver was the only fatality.
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Information from: Watertown Daily Times, https://www.watertowndailytimes.com
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