A Cut Above: After 93-Year-Old Falls, Firefighters Mow His Lawn

ACROSS AMERICA — Firefighters are known to go above and beyond, but what a group of them in Orange County, California, did recently isn’t usually what’s associated with their line of work.

When a group of medics helped a 93-year-old man onto an ambulance after he suffered a fall while mowing his lawn, a few stayed behind to finish the job.

The firefighters not only cut the rest of the grass, they did some raking in the yard as well.

“He shouldn’t have to worry about it when he comes home,” the Orange County Fire Authority said in a statement. Read the full story on Los Alamitos-Seal Beach, California, Patch

Californians’ Chicago Query

When folks in California — a state that's literally on fire, overrun with urban homeless encampments and has a governor on the cusp of being recalled — found out Patch traveling columnist Mark Konkol is an interloping reporter from Chicago, they were, at least momentarily, distracted from the issues facing the Golden State.

Instead, they wondered about the Midwestern metropolis more than 2,000 miles away.

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