TULALIP – Firefighters, police and regular folks received awards at the American Red Cross Heroes Breakfast Dec. 8 at the Tulalip Resort Casino.

Deputy Tracy Peckham and Sgt. Jess Sanders were honored for their work at a fire at the Stanwood Senior Center. They rushed in, kicked down doors and got all 85 people out OK before firefighters even arrived.

Other winners included:

•In Everett, firefighters Jim Nagle, Joel Sellinger and Travis Gamm were honored for the massive response to the Casino Road apartment fire on New Year’s Eve. Even neighbors chipped in to help.

•Also in Everett, the Claire Waite Humanitarian Award went to the Everett Police Ombudsman Program.

•North Counties Family Services in Darrington was honored with the Steve Taylor Spirit of Red Cross Award.

•Richard and Kathy Kennard of Snohomish educate residents on fire prevention and install smoke alarms in houses.

•Taylor Anaka, 12, of Monroe called 9-1-1 and saved his dad’s life following a dispatcher’s instructions on chest compressions after a heart attack.

•Wayne Thomasson, an English teacher at Eisenhower Middle School in Everett, saved a 7th-grader from choking on a piece of candy.

•Friends Marisa Fernandez, Preston Hoffman and Jake Schipperwere were hiking in Larabee State Park in Bellingham when they heard a crash. A young man had fallen off a cliff, bounced off the rocks and was unconscious in the river. They rolled him over and held him above icy cold water for two hours until rescuers arrived.

•Tom, Jake and Thomas Broselle pulled a family of five out of the water off Cherry Point (Ferndale), after their boat flipped as they were attempting to pull up crab pots. Tom swam under the boat and freed a 6-year-old girl who was trapped underneath.

•Friends Scott Korthuis, Rob Read and Doug Traina were playing racquetball at the YMCA in Lynden when another friend collapsed. The others started CPR, called for help and found the on-site AED. They did CPR for 45 minutes before he was taken to the hospital.