Council recognizes officer’s lifesaving response and five officers’ fundraising ride

The Clifton Heights Borough Council recognized Officer Eric Hollenbach July 21 for applying life‑saving first aid to an adult male found with a self‑inflicted gunshot wound at the Wawa on State Boulevard on July 6, 2025. According to a report read into the record, Officer Hollenbach arrived while Pennsylvania State Police coverage was distant, assessed the scene, applied a tourniquet to the subject’s leg, decreased blood loss and stabilized the subject until emergency medical services arrived. The report recommended that a copy of the recognition letter be placed in Officer Hollenbach’s personal file. The mayor also read a letter of recognition for five Clifton Heights officers — Sergeant Robert McKellen, Sergeant Daniel Ford, and Officers Andrew Truskin, Eric Hollenbach and Thomas Gallo — for fundraising and participation in the Bend to the Shore bike tour on July 20, 2025; the mayor said their fundraising benefits families supported by the Badge Children’s Foundation and that letters will be placed in those officers’ files. The recognitions were part of departmental reports and were accepted by the council; no formal action beyond placing recognition letters in personnel files was recorded in the transcript.