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FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) – The American Red Cross is honoring its 2025 Central Valley heroes – individuals recognized for their bonzer acts of courage, kindness and compassion. This year's lifesaving heroes are 5 Fresno constabulary officers who faced a barrage of gunfire to prevention the beingness of their sergeant who had been shot.
Fresno Police Sergeant George Imirian was wounded by a execution fishy who changeable into his parked patrol car.
"The shots went close into the operator door, of Sgt. Imirians patrol conveyance and helium was struck by 2 of those rounds," Chief Mindy Casto said.
Casto and Captain Joey Alvarez accidental the actions of 5 Fresno Police officers saved sergeant Imirian's life; and it was each captured by their assemblage cameras.
Those officers not lone rushed into the gunfire to halt the suspect, they provided contiguous attraction to Sgt. Imirian, applying tourniquets to halt the bleeding.
"So arsenic portion of their aesculapian grooming officers are trained successful the usage of a tourniquet. And respective years agone the section bought each serviceman a tourniquet. And we proceed to contented them," Alvarez said.
As portion of their grooming Fresno Police larn "Red Cross" lifesaving techniques, and the section precocious held grooming connected however to respond to an serviceman who'd been shot.
"It's a testament to our agencies training, but besides their quality and conscionable arsenic individuals, they're outstanding individuals. They're outstanding individuals that they tin execute nether specified accent and with outstanding results for Sgt. Imirians life," Casto said.
Those officers were precocious honored by the City of Fresno. Officers Jacob Shubin, Jonathan Yang, Christian Andrade, Justin Phoolka and Andrew Hernandez. So was Sgt. George Imirian, for his actions to support the community.
"If you speech to Sgt. Imirian, his mindset was 'I can't fto this feline wounded my officers.' And that was his information to spell aft the fishy and apprehend him earlier helium could wounded idiosyncratic else," Casto said.
"They demonstrated the champion of our agency, the highest of traditions, and one can't talk highly capable astir each and each 1 of them," Alvarez said.
"These aren't our children but they are our household and conscionable watching them perform, conscionable your bosom swells with pridefulness that we person specified exceptional radical successful this section and they don't conscionable enactment their beingness connected the enactment for their coworkers, they enactment their beingness connected the enactment for the assemblage each time and I'm arrogant to beryllium portion of an enactment afloat of officers conscionable similar them," Casto said.
