 Good morning. Thank you all for being here as we just saw that was a special moment Thank you officer for being here as well and for your family for being here to support you You know, it's a special day when We find out the people in our community are not only helping other members But when they help our own and so we wanted to get everybody together to honor these four individuals who saw Somebody in need that morning and took action to help and that person was our Denver police officer officer for Kenyo We have as we can see a sergeant from the Denver Corrections office, and we'd like to acknowledge his supervisors who are here. Thank you for being here about as well to support him And we also have the family members of these heroes. We also thank you for being here First up, we are going to have sergeant Troy Zimmerman to tell us what happened And then we will have Hannah Scanderra from the Daniel spend and she from Thomas So it's the sergeant Good morning. My name is Sartre Troy Zimmerman TRO IZ IMMER MAN. I'm supervisor with the Denver Police Traffic Operations Bureau I was the supervisor that responded to this accident on that day And I was at the scene pretty quick and got to see So I'll read from the commendation That I wrote that date which sort of led up to what we got going on here today So at approximately 5 15 a.m. On July 21st 2022 Denver police officer Anthony Bacanio was involved in a serious motorcycle crash on northbound I-25 near 23rd Avenue Officer Bacanio was attempting to stop a driver who had just committed a serious traffic violation When his motorcycle experienced an anomaly that caused him to lose control and strike the concrete median at a high rate of speed Officer Bacanio was seriously injured and was pinned under his motorcycle in the left lane of traffic It's the fast lane and there's a lot of traffic coming down that time of day The three three drivers were driving in that area at the same time and they observed this incident and saw the officer go down on the highway These individuals reacted quickly by positioning their personal cars in a manner that created a barrier between the oncoming traffic And the officer laying on the highway the three gentlemen Hector Arojo Vincent Plaskey and Austin Mackie Then exited their vehicles and rendered aid to Officer Bacanio as he lay injured on the highway At the same time Colorado Department of Corrections Sergeant Robert Presley was driving by the scene and observed Officer Bacanio down on the highway Sergeant Presley had medical supplies in his vehicle and pulled over to assist in rendering medical aid to Officer Bacanio Sober Sergeant Presley provided basic first aid and applied some bandages to Officer Bacanio's injuries And stayed there with him until further help arrived These four men's actions undoubtedly present prevented this scene from becoming worse And I thank them for their quick and caring actions and helping our officer I'd also like to recognize Officer Bacanio who's here with us. He's had a long road to recovery, but he's back to work as of today Unlike duty So thank you Tony. It's good seeing you. I know it's been a long struggle and then he's had quite a bit of medical Treatment had to take place to get him here to this point So now I'd like to bring out Hannah with the Daniels fun Good morning, and thank you sergeant Zimmerman I'm just struck by so many times we read headlines and we don't get to celebrate something in the headline and the headline today is a celebration and I our founder Bill Danielson with the Daniels fun was a visionary entrepreneur and a cable television pioneer Known for his big heart and compassion for those in need He was also a Navy fighter pilot in World War two and Korea and Through that experience. He gained a deep appreciation for people who place their lives in line to help others Which is basically this entire room The Daniels fun created the bill Daniels neighborhood hero award in his spirit to honor people who go above and beyond to help others and It's my privilege and my honor to award and present To our heroes today Hector Austin Vincent Sergeant Robert Presley. We are just grateful. Thank you for modeling what we hope our entire community is filled with but often We don't get to see heroes that champion The things that matter most and last the most I think These four individuals perfectly fit the description of a neighborhood hero And we really are thrilled to honor them today for aiding officer Picanio after his motorcycle crash So thank you for your courage and your quick life-saving action in Russian at the aid of officer Picanio People like you selflessly answering the call to help others make our community a better place And to show our appreciation we'd like to present each of you with the bill Daniels neighborhood hero award So I would just ask if you would Hector we'll start with with you come on up and I would love to present this award to you Thank you for our Officer To each one of you it's it's in one check here $4,000, but we just serve right there and Our community. Thanks you the Daniels fund. Thanks you and we thank you for your service and the line of duty Thank you very much. Have you all come up here? Join us Thank you And it is just like I said an honor to to honor our heroes today and all those who are here Who are heroes every day? So thank you for that now? I'd like to turn it over to chief toms to say a few words Well, good morning, and thank you all for coming, you know recent events Have shown that police work is inherently dangerous And certainly the work that our traffic officers do keeping our roadways safe particularly on a motorcycle is Certainly noteworthy But the work that these four gentlemen did to protect officer Picanha is truly inspiring You know, let's us know that certainly there are a lot of good and Thoughtful people in the world out there that we're all in this together And so we're truly thankful certainly thankful that officer Picanha wasn't injured any more severely thankful to the Daniels fund for awarding these these four heroes with the neighborhood hero award certainly You continue to recognize heroes in our community In you know in the spirit of Bill Daniels, and we're certainly thankful for that But for myself and on behalf of the entire the police department many of our members are back in the back watching today Certainly thankful to all four of you for the work that you did to protect Our fallen officer, so I want to thank you, and I have Community hero awards to present to each of you so I Have officer Picanha say a few words to thank you First of all, thank you all for being here my family my wife Thank you to the Daniels fund. Thank you to the department for recognizing these wonderful individuals I Had this speech prepared And then I sat down and I thought I'm like you know what these guys deserve so much more than Words down on a piece of paper so it really needs to come from here it's as Troy and Chief Thomas Bull said it's been a long road so far But I've had the road because of these wonderful people and What they've done You know we're used to as first responders being the ones to Run towards the danger when everyone else is running away and Offering our assistance and I think I speak on behalf of most of the first responders in this room when I say you know we dive into this career and Maintain this long career because we want to help people You know we desire to help people and that's our main goal is to be here for the community support the community Protect the community and be there for the community And I don't think anybody in this room expects ourselves to be the ones to be in need like that But when I was in need these four individuals Absolutely stepped up to the plate and like I said it's been a long road I still have a long road But I have a road paved because of these wonderful individuals next to me here today So Without further ado, I'm gonna ask you all to please stand up and give them a big round of applause Again, thank you to the department. Thank you to everybody for being here. Thank you to the Daniels fun I really appreciate it and to you gentlemen. I owe you. Thank you. Thank you officer Were there any questions from anybody? But that will close it. Thank you