When a man was cleaning leaves from the roof and gutter, he fell off the ladder and badly broke his leg. Two paramedics, John Grass and Matt Grunge, arrived at his home and took him to the hospital.
It's what they did next that is causing quite the stir. Like the teens who cleaned up elderly Mrs. Jones' yard, John and Matt went back to the man's house and finished the job.
“Pretty much right after the call, we just decided since he was going to be out of commission for a while we’d go back grab our blower and a couple of rakes and just kind of help him out,” John said.
“He had a pretty bad injury. We thought ‘hey, let’s go back there, finish the job, finish doing his leaves for him’ and give him a little surprise when he came home,” said Matt.
When an off-duty firefighter happened to see what they were doing, he jumped in to help, too.
“We ran out of bags. One of the off duty guys saw us working and brought over a tarp and trailer and made it easier; raked them up onto the tarp and made it a lot easier,” Matt said.
“We like to think we can build a fireman but we can’t build that character that people just inherently have. These two gentlemen, they have that character,” says Mehlville Fire Protection District Chief, Brian Hendricks.
But that's not all Matt and John are up to, see who else they help out in the video below.
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