PITTSBURGH (July 1, 2009)--A 38-year-old North Texas man was honored Wednesday with a Carnegie Hero medal.

Michael P. Schmidt of the Denton County community of Hickory Creek is one of 22 people so honored, some posthumously.

Schmidt saved Alexandra Stuart, 23, from drowning after she accidentally drove her car into Lake Lewisville at a Lewisville boat ramp on June 6, 2008.

Medalists or their heirs receive $6,000 with the medal.

Carnegie Hero Medal Recipients

Terry Ray Odom, 49, of Naples, Fla., and Richard S. Cameron, 36, of Naples, Fla., saved Ray J. Davis, 55, from drowning when his sport utility vehicle crashed into a golf course lake in East Naples, Fla. on July 3, 2008.
Thomas Eugene Foust, 17, of Glenview, Ill., saved an 83-year-old woman he pulled from a car stuck on railroad tracks seconds before it was hit by a train on Sept. 8, 2007.
Frederick L. Visconti, 65, of Danbury, Conn., saved a neighbor, Robert J. Mitchell, 18, from his burning home on May 24, 2008.
Edwin Hernandez, 31, of Reading, Pa., saved a 65-year-old woman who was being attacked in her home by her son, blocking the assailant as he tried to stab the woman with an 18-inch shard of glass on April 18, 2008.
Edward Bohan, 31, of Franklin Square, N.Y., rescued John H. Collymore, 58, by pulling him from a sport utility vehicle that had crashed and caught fire in North Hempstead, N.Y. on July 1, 2008.
R. Jason Altman, 27, of Andrews, S.C., died while helping to save Keith E. Gibson, 39, from suffocating after Gibson lost consciousness in oxygen-deficient air in a chemical dryer Gibson was cleaning in a plant where he worked on Nov. 4, 2006; and Tommy Earl Barnhill, 43, of Georgetown, S.C. helped pull Altman from the same chemical dryer when he lost consciousness while helping Gibson. Barnhill was hospitalized for respiratory distress but survived.
Michael P. Schmidt, 38, of Hickory Creek, Texas, saved Alexandra Stuart, 23, from drowning when she accidentally drove her vehicle into Lake Lewisville at a boat launch in Lewisville, Texas on June 6, 2008.
Richard W. Meserve, 42, of Falmouth, Maine, saved a 9-year-old girl from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Scarborough, Maine, when currents carried the girl away from shore on July 3, 2008.
Dwight A. Moore, 33, of Aliquippa, Pa., saved neighbor Kara M. Freeman, 18, from the top floor of her burning house on May 23, 2008.
Casey Marie Peirce, 30, of Calgary, Alberta, saved a man and a woman from drowning as they clung to their capsized canoe, which Peirce pulled to safety by swimming with a rope in the 50-degree water of Spray Lakes Reservoir in Canmore, Alberta on July 26, 2008.
George E. Gorton, 45, of Ware, Mass., broke his leg trying to save a 3-year-old girl who was alone in a van coasting down a hill in East Longmeadow, Mass. on Aug. 3, 2008. Gorton was dragged by the vehicle and fell to the pavement before the van hit a tree, but the girl wasn't hurt.
Susan M. Ricard, 37, of Webster, Mass., saved John Benoit, 58, from drowning after his sailboat capsized during a storm on Webster Lake on July 18, 2008. Ricard swam to Benoit with two short surfboards, and then led him to shore using the boards.
-Randall Scott Brewer, 27, of Lancaster, N.H. drowned attempting to rescue an 11-year-old boy from 38-degree water in the Israel River on April 19, 2008. Brewer pushed the boy to safety before he was carried away by the river's current.
Aaron D. Robinson, 12, of Cambridge, Md., drowned when he fell through ice trying to save his 8-year-old brother, Jairus, who had also fallen through ice on a pond on Feb. 11, 2007. Jairus Robinson also died.
Paul Cossalter, 41, of Wrenshall, Minn., died trying to save Joseph P. Kimmes III, 44; his brother, Scott A. Kimmes, 40; and Harold N. Olsen, from suffocating from toxic gas inside a landfill lift station in Superior, Wis. Cossalter was asphyxiated along with the three workers, when he entered the lift station to try to help them.
Toby Ames, 38, of Runnells, Iowa, saved Sarah M. Elrod, 21, when he pulled her unconscious from her burning automobile after it collided with a truck in Mitchellville, Iowa, on July 18, 2008.
David Patrick Rosamilla, 38, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., pulled Ronald L. Weamer from a burning vehicle after it struck a tree in Claysburg, Pa. Weamer, 61, died at the scene from his crash injuries.
Chloe C. Van Alstine, 17, of Wells, N.Y. helped save William T. Trainor, 48, from drowning when his car crashed into Lake Algonquin on Nov. 1, 2008. Van Alstine helped Trainor stay afloat after he escaped the wreck until a man in a boat pulled them to safety.
Henry W. Mott IV, 42, of Middletown, R.I. and Francis J. Gutierrez, 51, of Middletown, R.I. rescued Keith T. Ulrich, 38, when they pulled him from the burning wreckage of a light aircraft that crashed into some trees. Ulrich was badly burned and died about 10 weeks later; two passengers died at the scene.