1- Marcos Ugarte
One September evening, 14 year old Marcos Ugarte was doing homework at the kitchen table when he and his father saw an orangelight down their street. They ran to their neighbor's place to find the house was engulfed in flames and 4 of the 5 family members safe outside. The father who lived in the burning home, said his 8-year-old son Cody was trapped in a room upstairs. Marcos' father Eduardo, first went inside to try and rescue Cody. The heat and smoke was so bad that Eduardo had to run back out of the house, but Marcos had a plan. He grabbed a ladder and set it under the upstairs window. Marcos climbed the ladder, pulled the window screen out and helped Cody out of the window and down to the ground. Cody was taken to hospital, but wasn't hurt. Afterwards, Marcos stayed humble: "I can't say I really consider myself a hero," he told The Oregonian. "I think anyone would have done what I did."