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Deputies swing into action to warm disabled man’s home and heart.
By Allison Scarbrough, Editor.
SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Three Oceana County sheriff’s deputies went above and beyond the call of duty on a cold mid-December day by helping a disabled man heat his house.
“Yesterday, Central Dispatch received a phone call from a mail carrier,” said Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast Friday, Dec. 13. The mail carrier found a note in a mailbox on Baseline Road that said, “I need help.”
The letter was from a man is in his 60s and uses a cane. He was unable to stack the three ricks of firewood that had been delivered to his yard. “He fell a couple times” while trying to stack the wood, Mast said. The wood was laying in the mud and snow.
“The deputies realized what needed to be done,” the sheriff said, and they quickly sprang into action. They put the wood down a chute to his basement; stacked it up; and then built a fire in his wood stove. There was no heat in the house when they arrived.
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The deputies, who are Tim Simon, Jeremy Swihart and Donnie Hansen, also contacted social services to get the man some help with other needs.
“I’m really impressed with their performance in helping this gentleman,” Mast said.
The trio not only warmed the man’s house, but his heart as well – just in time for Christmas.
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