Rochester Police Officer Christine Wilson will be presented with the Carnegie Medal for saving four small children in November 2013.

The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the auditorium of the Public Safety Building, 184 Exchange Boulevard.

Wilson is one of 20 people nationally awarded the medal this year for extraordinary acts of heroism. Nominees are selected for the award that may come with a grant, according to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

In November 2013 Wilson, off-duty, was driving behind a minivan in Henrietta that got T-boned and with the help of local citizen Frank DiStefano rescued the four children. While they were getting the children out, the minivan burst into flames. In April Good Morning America recognized Wilson and DiStefano for their actions in a segment.

The fund was started in 1904 by Pittsburgh steelmaker Andrew Carnegie after a massive explosion in a coal mine in Harwick, Pennsylvania,that killed 181 people, including two victims who entered in attempts to rescue people, according to the commission's website.

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For more information on the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, see:
www.carnegiehero.org