South Sider Anthony Perry is getting $5,000 for saving a man’s life this summer.
, which is given to people who "enter extreme danger while saving or attempting to save the lives of others."during a fight and fell unconscious onto the third rail.
Perry felt electricity course through his body the first two times he tried to lift the man off the tracks, but not on his third and successful attempt. "It wasn’t a pleasant thing to watch," he said of the man convulsing on the tracks. "I think I just reacted out of caring and loving instinct.""The man upstairs, God himself, was protecting me," Perry said. "I wouldn’t be here today without him."
Perry, a graduate of Richards High School in Oak Lawn, said he planned to use the $5,000 for auto repairs and clothes for his sisters and mother. The Carnegie Hero Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1904. More than $44 million has been awarded in the 118 years since its creation.
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