This time its the Virginia Public Safety Foundation honoring them. Lt. Gov. John H. Hager joined VPSF officials yesterday in presenting 1999 Commonwealth Valor Awards for the two Henrico officers. Brooks and Crowder were honored earlier by the Henrico Division of Police, the Retail Merchants of Greater Richmond and the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
Every day there are men and women who go out and put their lives on the line for our safety.
The Commonwealth Valor Awards, established in 1987, recognize the state's public safety officers for actions beyond the call of duty, often at great personal risk. Brooks and Crowder were cited for their heroism March 1 pulling a Virginia state trooper and another man from burning vehicles on Interstate 95 north of Richmond. The vehicles of the trooper and the other man had been involved in a crash at the end of a high-speed chase. Yesterday Crowder was ill, so Henrico Police Chief Henry W. Stanley, Jr. accepted the award for him. The State Fire Chiefs Association of Virginia, Inc., salutes all of the Valor Award recipients for their courage and devotion to duty.