Dignitaries officially recognized Sequim’s Jason Doig as a hero Monday night.

Sequim Mayor Dennis Smith presented Doig a Carnegie Medal in the Sequim City Council Chambers after he helped prevent a woman from jumping off a railing on the Hood Canal Bridge on March 3, 2017.

Smith read a declaration saying that the “Carnegie Medal is given throughout the United States and Canada to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.”

“Doig approached the woman, remaining out of her view, while another man distracted her. Then Doig grasped her and pulled her to safety, sustaining injuries as she struggled,” Smith read from the declaration.

Doig recognized Lt. Dan Powell of the South King County Fire Training Consortium and Arthur Green of Sequim for helping him save the woman.

He said Powell was the first person who got out of his vehicle as the woman stood on the railing.

“If it wasn’t for Lieutenant Dan’s actions, we would not be here today,” Doig said.

Doig said he and Powell devised a plan to help the woman simply through eye contact.

The Peninsula Daily News reported that Powell distracted her while Doig grabbed her as she leaped backward and dangled in Doig’s arms about 30 feet above a concrete structure.

Green, who was driving Doig, helped Powell and Doig pull the woman to safety.

“I appreciate the notoriety but it’s a hard thing to accept for me,” he said Monday.

“I think I did what a lot of people in this room would have done. It was more of a reaction than a thought-process.”

Clallam County Commissioner Mark Ozias also commended Doig at the ceremony, which makes Doig one of more than 10,000 Carnegie Medal recipients.