MILFORD - A Milford man, who saved a 10-year-old boy from drowning in February 2017, will be presented a Carnegie Medal before the city’s fireworks display on Saturday. On Feb. 5, 2017, the boy broke through the ice on a pond while playing with friends, moments after John Gerald O’Rourke had warned the boys about the dangerous ice conditions. “O’Rourke, 61, a delivery driver, who was walking his dog on a nearby trail, grabbed an 8-foot-long tree branch and moved on his stomach to reach the boy about 75 feet from shore when he, too, broke through the ice a few feet from the boy,” according to The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
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