Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: April 25, 2012
• Invested on: October 12, 2012

Dwight Steven Foster, M.B.
Claude Lapierre, M.B.
Tim Leclair, M.B.
Jeffery Thomas Ray Lennox, M.B.
Medal of Bravery

On March 3, 2010, Tim Leclair, Claude Lapierre, Dwight Foster and Jeff Lennox risked their lives to rescue a man who was trapped in a silo, in North Gower, Ontario. The man had been emptying a corn silo when a huge amount of it shifted and buried him. Mr. Lennox ran to the victim, shovelled some of the corn away so that he could breathe, and then went to get help. Messrs. Foster, Lapierre and Leclair arrived and formed a human barrier around him, pulling corn away as a nine-metre-high wall of it was slowly coming down on them. After approximately six hours of vacuuming out large amounts of the corn and then cutting into the side of the silo, firefighters were finally able to extract the victim and bring him to safety.