The evening medal ceremony will also honor five Nashville police officers who responded to the Covenant School mass shooting in 2023 and to Lincoln, Neb., police Sgt. Tu Tran saved a woman trapped inside a car from a frigid pond.
Gaffney similarly risked his life in February 2023 when he rushed into a burning apartment building to save an unconscious pregnant woman and child.
Vanderstar “ducked below the fire in his full protective gear and self-contained breathing apparatus and shot down the hallway to the rear bedroom and found an adult woman and a child,” a colleague, Capt. Stephen Elliott told The Post at the time.
“If the mother and child were in that apartment for another minute or two, they most likely had no chance of survival,” Elliot said. “It’s an amazing rescue.”
Army Specialist Fourth Class Kenneth J. David will also receive the high honor.
Biden, 82, will present the nation’s highest award for public safety officers to Lt. John Vanderstar and firefighter Brendan Gaffney.