{"id":360597,"date":"2026-06-14T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360597\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:43:07","slug":"regional-3-caltrans-employees-receive-california-medal-of-valor-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360597\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional: 3 Caltrans Employees Receive California Medal Of Valor Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three California Department of Transportation employees have received the Governor&#8217;s State Employee Medal of Valor for acts of heroism performed while aiding people in life-threatening situations, the department announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tobin Hook, a landscape associate, and Anthony Coscia, a transportation engineer, both from District 5, received the Gold Medal of Valor for rescuing a drowning woman from the Pacific Ocean near Davenport in Santa Cruz County on Aug. 29, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to Caltrans, the pair helped bring the woman to shore and administered CPR and other lifesaving measures until emergency responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Quinliven, a District 1 equipment operator, received the Silver Medal of Valor for assisting a distressed motorist on May 12, 2025, in Mendocino County.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans said Quinliven provided first aid and remained with the woman after her vehicle became stranded on an embankment below State Route 162 until emergency personnel arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three California Department of Transportation employees have received the Governor&#8217;s State Employee Medal of Valor for acts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-360597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}