Firefighters REALLY Complete Their Job In Baytown, Texas

Firefighters in Baytown, Texas
finish mowing the lawn of
 a heart attack victim. Photo
 by Ashley Odom Chandler,
 via Facebook.  

Firefighters in Baytown, Texas recently responded to the home of a 65 year old man who suffered a heart attack while mowing his lawn.  

The paramedics treated him and rushed the man off to the hospital. So good! They did their job completely and professionally.

However, the firefighters believed they still had work to do at the scene of the emergency.

They returned, finished mowing the lawn, put the mower in the garage when they were done, locked the garage door and left a note tellling the man's wife to contact them if she needed them for anything else  says ABC 13 in Houston. 

Sadly, the 65-year old's heart attack was massive. Despite the firefighters' efforts and that of the doctors at the hospital, the guy died.

Still, I really have to give kudos to the Baytown Fire Department.  Talk about being community minded! Not surprisingly, they are getting major praise from Baytown residents.

Up here where I live in St. Albans, Vermont, I really do love our fire and rescue services. They're terrific.

But if any firefighter in Baytown is looking to relocate, I definitely invite them to apply for a job in our town.

I'd love to have them.

Or maybe I should just move to the fine city of Baytown, Texas.

Puppy Gets Head Stuck In Tire. Love The Name Rescuers Gave Him

Firefighters struggle to free a puppy stuck
in a tire. The dog was later named "Lugnut"  

There were some tense moments for a fire crew in Houston, Texas recently, when a frantic person came to the station with a dog.

The black lab mix's head was hopeless stuck in a tire, says Click2Houston.

The worst part of the story is the dog was found, stuck in the tire, abandoned in a trash heap. Thank goodness the Good Samaritan noticed the poor pup and sought help at the fire station.

And I want to smite the person who left the dog there.

Firefighters tried the tried and true soap and water to get the dog unstuck. That didn't work. They tried sawing the dog out of the metal part of the tire he was stuck in, but the saw frightened the puppy too much.

They then tried the Jaws of Life, that mechanism that gets people out of car wrecks they've been trapped in. That did the trick. The pub is on his way to a full recovery.

And the firefighters couldn't resist giving the dog an approrpriate name. He's now known as Lugnut.

Watch the rescue video: