{"id":802405,"date":"2019-12-17T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376053"},"modified":"2019-12-17T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T01:20:00","slug":"silverthorne-police-officer-awarded-for-saving-suicidal-mans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/silverthorne-police-officer-awarded-for-saving-suicidal-mans-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverthorne police officer awarded for saving suicidal man\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Council members clap as Silverthorne Mayor Ann-Marie Sandquist presents the Medal for Meritorious Service to police officer Ryan Hosier Dec. 11 at the Silverthorne Town Council meeting<\/strong>
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SILVERTHORNE \u2014 On the night of Oct. 5, Silverthorne Police Department officer Ryan Hosier put himself in harm\u2019s way to save a man\u2019s life. He was awarded the Medal for Meritorious Service by Silverthorne Mayor Ann-Marie Sandquist on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the Silverthorne Town Council meeting. <\/p>\n

At 8:11 p.m. Oct. 5, Hosier and Sgt. Rachel Dunaway responded to a call about a suicidal man trying to jump from a balcony, according to an account of the incident read by Sandquist. After the two arrived on scene, Hosier stood in the driveway and talked to the man, who was on the roof of the garage. While Hosier was talking, Dunaway went to the room that accessed the roof and attempted to talk to the man, as well. <\/p>\n

At about 8:35 p.m., the man tried to jump off the roof, slipped and then jumped head first onto the driveway. Hosier positioned himself under the man to break his fall, and they both hit the ground. The man was transported by ambulance to St. Anthony Summit Medical Center. Hosier also was injured in the incident and went to the emergency room for treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those kind of unselfish actions, we believe he played a significant role in saving that man\u2019s life,\u201d Silverthorne Police Chief John Minor said. <\/p>\n

Hosier said there were several factors that contributed to his decision that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough my experience in the Marines and just in my personal life, there\u2019s a lot of people that I know who have been in a crisis like that,\u201d Hosier said. \u201cHis mom was standing right there and watching everything, so I don\u2019t think I could live with myself if his mom would have watched that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hosier said he had pain in his leg that caused him to walk with a limp along with an injury to his hand, but both now have healed. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been under the mindset that I was put here to help people that can\u2019t help themselves,\u201d Hosier said. \u201cI would definitely do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hosier said he doesn\u2019t do the job for recognition, and he even attempted to get out of the medal ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known officer Ryan Hosier for a long time. This is not his first life-saving medal,\u201d Minor said, referring to another incident in 2018<\/a>. \u201cHe was a Marine. He\u2019s just an unselfish human being, and he\u2019s also humble.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the man Hosier saved, Minor said he received the help he needed. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy understanding is \u2014 and it just goes to show mental health can happen to anyone \u2014 this is a very successful human being, a very successful human in life,\u201d Minor said. \u201c\u2026 But from what I understand, he\u2019s doing well now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandquist remarked that it was a somber night as council members and police officers who were present celebrated Hosier and mourned the loss of Summit County firefighter Ken Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mayor began the ceremony by explaining the criteria for the medal, which is awarded for saving a life or an act that involves uncommon risk to an employee in the performance of their duties.<\/p>\n

Hosier accomplished both acts at once, Sandquist said, and she was honored to present the award.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never given a service award like this before, so it\u2019s actually pretty cool,\u201d Sandquist said. \u201cI was pretty excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minor also expressed gratitude for Hosier as an officer and a person. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege for me to work with him,\u201d Minor said. \u201cI\u2019m just glad we have police officers like him serving the town of Silverthorne. He\u2019s just a pleasure to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Council members clap as Silverthorne Mayor Ann-Marie Sandquist presents the Medal for Meritorious Service to police officer Ryan Hosier Dec. 11 at the Silverthorne Town Council meetingTaylor Sienkiewicz \/ tsienkiewicz@summitdaily.com SILVERTHORNE \u2014 On the night of Oct. 5, Silverthorne Police Department officer Ryan Hosier put himself in harm\u2019s way to save a man\u2019s life. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 06:25:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}