Four deputies pulled a driver from a burning truck. One helped to save a boy from drowning. One pulled a woman who was considering suicide from the edge of a bridge. These stories were recognized on April 5 as Loudoun County’s annual Valor Awards honored six sheriff’s deputies’ extraordinary actions in 2012.

Deputy Matthew Vess received the lifesaving award for saving a woman who had climbed over the guardrail of an overpass on the Loudoun County Parkway in May 2012. Vess saw the woman, stopped his car and ran over to her.