Amarillo postal worker named 'National Hero of the Year' for saving woman from dog attack

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVII) — An Amarillo postal worker was named "National Hero of the Year" for saving a woman from a vicious dog attack.

Philip Moon received the award from the National Association of Letter Carriers during a ceremony Wednesday in Washington D.C.

Moon was on his route in October when he saw a customer being attacked by a pit bull.

He fought off the dog and pulled the woman into his truck.

She was bleeding badly from dog bites to her left leg.

“The whole bottom of the floorboard was filling up with blood,” said Moon.

Moon called 911 and then used his shirt to stop the bleeding.

But that wasn't all.

He had to fight the dog off a second time when the dog forced its way into the truck and bit the woman's other leg.

First responders and animal control officers caught the dog while EMTs tended to the victim's wounds.

“You saved her twice,” police told Moon—once from the dog and again from bleeding to death.

Despite his heroic actions, Moon said he doesn’t consider himself a hero.

“I’ll be honest with you—I was scared to death,” he said. “I was just running on adrenaline.”

The Postmaster General was at the ceremony, and Moon jokingly told him he would be proud to know that after it was over, his manager brought him another shirt so that he could continue his route.