Crime & Safety

Pikesville Resident to Receive Martin Luther King Jr. Award

The Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service award will be presented Friday to Justin McCracken, an emergency medical technician with Johns Hopkins Hospital.

 

Emergency medical technician Justin McCracken is a volunteer firefighter who a few years ago rescued a woman from the second-floor balcony of a burning senior living facility.

That heroic effort is only one of the heroic acts he has performed, according to a news release from Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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On Friday, Hopkins will honor McCracken with the Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service award, the release states.

In addition to his EMT job at the hospital, he puts in 20 hours per week at the . He has also helped with fundraising efforts to benefit the station, as well as organizing clothing and food drives, the release states.

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McCracken will be one of seven of the hospital's employees to receive the award, which has been given to employees since 1982, the release states.

The ceremony will take place at Hopkins Turner Auditorium during a ceremony only for employees.

The release lists speakers who came to previous Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorations, including Louis Gossett Jr., Lynn Whitfield, Cicely Tyson, Danny Glover, the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among others.


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