After a Pasco County, Florida man suffered from a heart attack while doing yard work over the weekend, the first responders who saved his life helped him finish the job while he recovered.
Gene Work's wife, Melissa Work, posted about the incident on Facebook. She said her husband was working on sod with her brother-in-law when he suffered from a heart attack.
She said her husband kept begging his wife to figure out the remaining four palettes of sod while he was drifting in-and-out of consciousness during his heart attack.
Her brother-in-law stayed behind and was planning to finish the work himself when he saw firetrucks and an ambulance had come back to their home.
"Before he knows it, 7 firefighters and EMT's jumped out, put on gloves and said they came back because they knew Gene was in serious trouble and they wanted to lay the new sod so it didn't die," she wrote in her Facebook post.
"They came back!!! They saved his life, dropped him off and then cared enough to save our GRASS!!"
Melissa Work said Gene Work was working on a deadline so the HOA didn't fine them. She also said later in the post that the first responders didn't know about the fine.
"They simply saw someone in need, something in need and did this for us. This wasn't in their job description. We have no words," she said in the post.
