Iowa City honored Jacob Gilmore for pulling a firefighter from a collapse

Jacob Gilmore received the Iowa City Fire Department's Medal of Bravery on Oct. 23 at Emma Harvat Hall, KWWL reported. The award covers a July 23 fire on Forest Gate Drive NE. Gilmore was working at Station 4 when his crew went to help the North Liberty Fire Department. While firefighters were attacking the flames, part of the home's second floor collapsed onto an Iowa City firefighter.

The collapse knocked off that firefighter's helmet and loosened the facepiece. The firefighter could not reach a radio to call for help. Gilmore pulled the colleague out of the debris. Johnson County Ambulance Service checked the firefighter at the scene, and the firefighter was taken to a hospital for further evaluation. Fire Chief Scott Lyon said Gilmore saw the emergency and used his training without waiting to be directed. Gilmore joined the Iowa City department in February. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and had served with the Coralville Fire Department. The report is the rescue and the medal. It does not describe the injuries beyond that hospital evaluation.