Firefighters are brave people who put their lives on the line every day to help their communities.

Over 3,500 firefighters are currently risking their lives to fight the Ferguson fire, which began in Yosemite on July 13 and is now blazing over 43,000 acres. Turlock Fire OES Strike Team 4803A is one agency that is fighting this blaze.

Brenda Ann Marks was at her Turlock home last week when she noticed firefighters from this agency appear at her door. She immediately assumed that they were coming with the bad news that she would have to evacuate, as the fire was getting closer, but she was wrong.

“I heard a knock at the front door,” wrote Brenda. “There stood 4 firemen in full gear. I said, ‘Oh no, I have to leave again?’ He instantly replied, ‘No, ma’am we’re here to help you. Is there anything we can do?’”

The firefighters were simply taking the time to perform a welfare check, as they knew Brenda must be very frightened. While Brenda said that she could not think of anything they could do for her, the firefighter had other ideas.

Brenda recalled, “He then replied so sweetly, ‘Do you have a lawn mower? Your lawn needs mowing and we want to do it!’ So one guy headed out and mowed my back yard!!”

Brenda continued:

Then the other guy said, “Why is your freezer out here on the deck?”

“Oh,” I said, “I still have to clean it out it’s empty of rotten food…I’m going to do that today!”

He replied, “Well I’m going to clean it out for you… Do you have cleaning supplies bleach, 409, some rags?”

I said, “Oh that’s ok I can do it.”

Lo and behold, before I knew it two of them pick up my freezer and took it over to the gravel out front. Cleaned it and carried back into my home.

I had an ice chest that was leaking water inside the front hallway… Well I’m sure you can guess he took everything out transferring it to a good freezer next to it!

I also had a lot of pieces to the inside of the refrigerator freezer propped up in the hall drying from being cleaned.

Within minutes, the freezer had been reassembled, restocked, and cleaned! Brenda burst into tears when she saw what they had done for her! She then took down all the firefighters’ names and wrote them on Facebook so that the entire world could thank them.

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