HJR308 Summary

• Commends Officers Corey Sarvaunt and Jonathan Mitchell of the Vestavia Hills Police Department as nominees for the 2017 Alabama Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement, the state's highest law enforcement award for extraordinary courage.

• Officers responded to an apartment fire at the Vestawood Apartment complex on Columbiana Road in Vestavia Hills on January 14, 2016, where multiple units were engulfed in flames and residents were trapped.

• Officer Mitchell caught a child dropped from the second floor, enabling the child's parents to escape; both officers then discovered and rescued a family of five trapped in a burning unit by cutting a hole in a masonry wall with assistance from firefighters.

• Directs that Officers Sarvaunt and Mitchell receive a copy of the resolution as evidence of the legislature's admiration and esteem for their heroic actions that saved multiple lives.

• Adopted by the House on April 20, 2017, and by the Senate on April 27, 2017.